Superman '78
#5
[Francis Manapul Cover]
(February 2022)
DC,
2021 Series
- Price
- 3.99 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 2021-12-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Ages 13+
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [circle and serifs]
- Barcode
- 761941372167 00511
- Printer
- Solisco Printers, Scott, QC, Canada
- Editing
- Andrew Marino (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Francis Manapul (credited) (signed as
FJM) - Inks
- Francis Manapul (credited) (signed as FJM)
- Colors
- Francis Manapul (credited) (signed as FJM)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Brainiac; Superman [Clark Kent / Kal-El]
- Reprints
-
in Superman '78 (DC, 2022 series) ([September] 2022)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Superman '78 (DC, 2021 series) #5 [Francis Manapul Cover]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1492/w200/1492685.jpg?-8338117626791413931)
![Cover Thumbnail for Superman '78 (2021 series) #5 [Jamal Campbell Cardstock Variant Cover]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1496/w100/1496446.jpg?7518110846678347156)
Brainiac Chapter Five
Superman / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Robert Venditti (credited)
- Pencils
- Wilfredo Torres (credited)
- Inks
- Wilfredo Torres (credited)
- Colors
- Jordie Bellaire (credited)
- Letters
- Dave Lanphear of A Larger World Studios (credited as Dave Lanphear of A Larger World)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Brainiac; Jor-El; Lois Lane; Lara; Lex Luthor; Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent / Kal-El]; Perry White
- Synopsis
- Jor-El is able to restore Superman and transport him out of Kandor in time for him to stop the miniaturization process of Metropolis. Superman tries to convince Brainiac to return Metropolis and leave Earth alone, but he instead sics his drones on the Man of Steel before facing him himself.
- Reprints
- in Superman '78 (DC, 2022 series) ([September] 2022)
-
Indexer Notes
Apparently, among those in Metropolis are Gus Gorman (played by Richard Pryor in the film Superman III), Shaggy (from Scooby-Doo), and Barney Miller, Phil Fish, and Ron Harris (from the TV show Barney Miller).
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