(October 1979)

DC, 1977 Series
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Volume
31
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1979-07-17
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893067010
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #170.
This issue has variants:

This Is Your Life -- and Death -- Brainiac 5! (Table of Contents)

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dick Giordano (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
C-160
Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]]; Science Police
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1977 series) #256 Cover Thumbnail for Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977 series) #256 [Whitman] Cover Thumbnail for Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (1977 series) #256 [British]
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This is Your Life -- And Death, Brainiac 5! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway
Pencils
Joe Staton
Inks
Dave Hunt
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-6098
Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]; Cosmic Boy [Rokk Krinn]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]; Matter-Eater Lad [Tenzil Kem] (cameo); Mon-El [Lar Gand]; Shadow Lass [Tasmia Mallor]; Shrinking Violet [Salu Digby]; Gollosal Boy [Gim Allon]; Wildfire [Drake Burroughs]; Ultra Boy [Jo Nah]; Phantom Girl [Tinya Wazzo]; Timber Wolf [Brin Londo]; Light Lass [Ayla Ranzz]]; R. J. Brande; Science Police
Synopsis
The Legion take over Cosmic World in an attempt to cure Brainiac 5.
Reprints
Keywords
Cosmic World

Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jack C. Harris
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-335

Indexer Notes

Letters from Andrew J. MacLaney, Gary A. Leach and Chuck Lee.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.6 page (report information)

Number 47 Carol Fein (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. This Is Your Life -- and Death -- Brainiac 5!
    Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
  2. 1. This is Your Life -- And Death, Brainiac 5!
    Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
  3. 2. Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts
    Hostess Fruit Pies; Wonder Woman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Legion Outpost
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  6. 5. Number 47 Carol Fein
    DC Profiles
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  • Valmiki Annamanthadoo
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Per Sandell
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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