Lobo
#1
[Direct]
(November 1990)
DC,
1990 Series
- Price
- 0.99 USD; 1.23 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1990-09-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Art Young (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
Issue #1 of 4. Introduced at a bargain price: "First Issue! Only 99ยข $1.25 CAN" appears within a spatter of blood on the cover.
This issue has variants:Keywords breakout character; first issue; limited series
This issue has variants:
[Portrait of a Bastich]
Lobo / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Simon Bisley (painting)
- Inks
- Simon Bisley (painting)
- Colors
- Simon Bisley (painting)
- Letters
- Todd Klein (letters and logo design)
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Lobo
- Synopsis
- Lobo rarely "bites his lip" to keep silent... he bites it to draw blood.
- Reprints
-
in Lobo (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1991 series) #1 (1991) -
in Lobo (Zinco, 1991 series) #1 (Octubre 1991) -
in American Heroes (Play Press, 1991 series) #2 (Dicembre 1991) -
in Lobo: The Last Czarnian (DC, 1991 series) (1991 [February 1992]) -
in L.E.G.I.O.N. & Lobo (Epix, 1992 series) #1/1992 ([oktober] 1992) -
in Wydanie specjalne (TM-Semic, 1991 series) #2/1994 (1994) -
in eXtrem action (Semic Interpresse, 1994 series) #1 (17. marts 1994) - in Lobo: Den sidste Czarnianer (Semic Interpresse, 1995 series) (1995)
-
in Magnum (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1988 series) #7/1995 ([juni] 1995), #7/1995 ([juni] 1995) - in Pocketserien (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1995 series) #11 - Lobo ([juli] 1997)
- in Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich (DC, 2008 series) ([May] 2008)
- in Lobo by Keith Giffen & Alan Grant (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([March] 2018)
-
- Keywords
- biting one's lip; blood; portrait
Indexer Notes
Letters and logo design credits from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
![Cover Thumbnail for Lobo (DC, 1990 series) #1 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/237/w200/237336.jpg?5808354728515965215)
The Last Czarnian, Part One: Portrait of a Psychopath
Lobo / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Keith Giffen (plot); Alan Grant (script)
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (breakdowns); Simon Bisley (finished art)
- Inks
- Simon Bisley (finished art)
- Colors
- Lovern Kindzierski
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can ya believe it?
- Genre
- humor; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Lobo; Vril Dox; Lady Quark; Strata; Miss Tribb; space dolphins; chief warden of L.E.G.I.O.N. holding prison; 'Bo's Bros (angry mob devoted to Lobo); bookstore proprietor; members of the Legion of Decency Paramilitary S.W.A.T. Unit; various lowlife patrons of the "Scarf 'n' Barf" space-truckstop
- Synopsis
- Lobo is furious that someone has written an unauthorized bio of his life and decides that the author has to die. His quest for revenge is interrupted, however, by Dox who tasks him with bringing in a prisoner alive to L.E.G.I.O.N. headquarters. Unfortunately, the person Lobo wants to kill is now the same person he has sworn to protect--his fourth grade teacher Miss Tribb.
- Reprints
- in Lobo (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1991 series) #1 (1991)
- in Lobo (Zinco, 1991 series) #1 (Octubre 1991)
- in American Heroes (Play Press, 1991 series) #2 (Dicembre 1991)
- in Lobo: The Last Czarnian (DC, 1991 series) (1991 [February 1992])
- in Wydanie specjalne (TM-Semic, 1991 series) #2/1994 (1994)
- in Lobo: Den sidste Czarnianer (Semic Interpresse, 1995 series) (1995)
- in Magnum (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1988 series) #7/1995 ([juni] 1995) which is reprinted
- in Pocketserien (Bladkompaniet / Schibsted, 1995 series) #11 - Lobo ([juli] 1997)
- in Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich (DC, 2008 series) ([May] 2008)
- in Lobo by Keith Giffen & Alan Grant (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([March] 2018)
-
- Keywords
- biography; book; diner; L.E.G.I.O.N.; mob violence; outer space setting; prisoner; teacher
Indexer Notes
The story contains three text pages which are presented as chapters of Lobo's unauthorized biography and tell portions of his origin.
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