(March 1973)
DC,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-01-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Editing
- Jeff Rovin
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #92.
[no title indexed]
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- Q-128
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Lightning Lad; Element Lad; Chameleon Boy; Star Boy; Brainiac 5; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy
- Reprints
-
in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #87 ([June 1974] ?) -
in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #12 ([June] 2003)
-
Part I: The War between Krypton and Earth!
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages
- Job Number
- Q-123
- Feature Logo
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Light Lass; Star Boy; Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Triplicate Girl]; Zat-El; Leta Lal
- Synopsis
- The Legionnaires travel to the past to find out the story behind an ancient artifact which refers to a war between Earth and Krypton. The half that goes to Earth's past finds space travellers colonizing ancient Atlantis; the other half accompanies a group of Kryptonians who leave anti-scientific Krypton for Earth.
- Reprints
- from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #333 (June 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
DC properly credits this story to Edmond Hamilton on the item and Bob Hughes confirms the identification. We formerly had credited this story to Jerry Siegel. Lettering and inking credit from reprint in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #4; only John Forte credited for art on item.
Part II: The Civil War of the Legion
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 8 pages
- Feature Logo
- Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Light Lass; Star Boy; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad; Element Lad; Mon-El]; Zat-El; Leta Lal; Jhor Lal
- Synopsis
- While the Atlanteans and Kryptonians fight, Brainiac 5 discovers why Earth's air irritates the Atlanteans and helps them adapt to life under the sea. Later, back in the future, Superboy finds more artifacts that explain what happened to the Kryptonians.
- Reprints
- from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #333 (June 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
DC properly credits this story to Edmond Hamilton on the item and Bob Hughes confirms the identification. We formerly had credited this story to Jerry Siegel. Lettering and inking credit from reprint in The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #4; only John Forte credited for art on item.
The Legion of Super-Heroes Membership List -- (Part Two)
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- Jim Shooter (layout, illustration); Curt Swan (finished pencils, illustration)
- Inks
- George Klein (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- Q-124
- Characters
- Superboy; Ferro Lad; Shadow Lass
Indexer Notes
Illustration from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #354.
No art credits on item; credits from GCD index of original printing.
The Toys That Stopped Space Crime
Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- Q-126
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tommy Tomorrow; Brent Wood
- Synopsis
- Using seemingly harmless toys from a time capsule buried in 1972, Tommy Tomorrow and Brent Wood outwit a band of space pirates.
- Reprints
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #239 (April 1958)
-
Indexer Notes
No credits on item; credits from GCD index of original printing.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
Part I: The War between Krypton and Earth!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
Part II: The Civil War of the Legion
Legion of Super-Heroes -
3.
The Legion of Super-Heroes Membership List -- (Part Two)
-
4.
The Toys That Stopped Space Crime
Tommy Tomorrow
This issue was modified by, among others
- CTGarry
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Pat Lang
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.