Adventure Comics #5 / 508 [Newsstand]

(February 2010)

He Primed Me, Part Two: Flame War (Table of Contents: 1)

Superboy-Prime / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Geoff Johns; Sterling Gates

Pencils

Jerry Ordway

Inks

Bob Wiacek; Jerry Ordway

Colors

Brian Buccellato

Letters

Ken Lopez

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy-Prime; Black Lantern Alexander Luthor; Black Lantern Ballistic; Black Lantern Bushido; Black Lantern Charaxes; Black Lantern Element Lad; Black Lantern Geist; Black Lantern Major Disaster; Black Lantern Nightblade; Black Lantern Razorsharp; Black Lantern Sun Boy; Laurie Lemmon; Superman (memory); Flash (memory); Impulse (memory); Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-Prime) [Brainiac 5; Ultra Boy] (memory); Risk (memory); Power Girl (memory)

Synopsis

Realizing his destiny is controlled by the people at DC Comics, Superboy-Prime tries to leave his fight with the Black Lanterns and take out his frustrations on the DC employees. But Black Lantern Alexander Luthor transports the Black Lanterns and Superboy-Prime to Prime's basement to continue the fight. Prime tries to take possession of one of the Black Lantern rings, but it refuses to let him, exploding in a burst of light and leaving him alone in his basement remembering his love for Laurie. Just then, Laurie arrives and tells Clark that everything will be all right from now on.

Reprints

• in Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (DC, 2010 series) ([September] 2010)
• in Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (DC, 2011 series) (2010 [September 2011])

Indexer Notes

Seen in the DC offices are Dan Didio, Simona Martore, Mike Carlin, Eddie Berganza, Adam Schlagman, and many others. All of the Black Lanterns other than Alexander Luthor are unidentified, as are the victims Superboy-Prime remembers. There is no explanation for why Legion corpses should exist in the 21st century.

The Boy of Steel (Table of Contents: 2)

Superboy / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Geoff Johns

Pencils

Francis Manapul

Inks

Francis Manapul

Colors

Brian Buccellato

Letters

Steve Wands

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy [Conner Kent]; Krypto; Lori; Lex Luthor

Synopsis

Superboy finds Lori vandalizing a doctor's office and also finds out a little bit more about Lori's life.

Reprints

• in Superboy: The Boy of Steel (DC, 2011 series) (2010 [July 2011])