(April 1980)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 32
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-01-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893067004
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #176.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Planet That Captured the Legion
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- James Sherman (signed)
- Inks
- James Sherman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-284
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Karate Kid; Dream Girl; Shrinking Violet; Colossal Boy]; The Engineer
- Reprints
-
in Superboy (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #7/1980 (Juli 1980) -
in Superboy (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1981 (uke 52 1981) -
in Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (DC, 2021 series) #1 (2020 [April 2021])
-
![Cover Thumbnail for The Legion of Super-Heroes (1980 series) #262 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1586/w100/1586028.jpg?-3880456731525060752)
The Planet That Captured the Legion
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway
- Pencils
- James Sherman
- Inks
- James Sherman; Joe Rubinstein (uncredited, page 12, panels 1 [partial], 3, 4)
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- J-6244
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Colossal Boy; Cosmic Boy; Dream Girl; Shrinking Violet; Karate Kid; Light Lass; Ultra Boy; Sun Boy; Shadow Lass; Wildfire; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Mon-El (cameo); Timber Wolf (cameo); Princess Projectra (cameo); Brainiac 5 (cameo); Star Boy (cameo); Phantom Girl (cameo)]; R. J. Brande; The Engineer (introduction)
- Synopsis
- As one team of Legionnaires rebuilds their headquarters, another team accompanies R. J. Brande on a mission to create new suns and encounters impossible dangers on a strange planet.
- Reprints
- in Superboy (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #7/1980 (Juli 1980)
- in Superboy (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1981 (uke 52 1981)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (DC, 2021 series) #1 (2020 [April 2021])
-
An Arrow in Time
Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
- Synopsis
- Green Arrow rescues a disabled tram and keeps the frightened child passengers happy with Hostess Fruit Pies.
- Keywords
- children
Indexer Notes
Copyright © 1979 Continental Baking Company.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 0.75 page
- Script
- Jack C. Harris
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-448
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Scott Gibson and Sara Greenblatt.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Statement of October 1, 1979
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months: 322,106
Actual number of copies sold for issue nearest filing date: 343,727
Owner: DC Comics, Inc., wholly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., a publicly held company, both at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.6 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Part of The DC Feature Page.
Number 58 Steve Ditko
DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography
Indexer Notes
Part of The DC Feature Page. Art-only biography of Steve Ditko characters.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Planet That Captured the Legion
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
The Planet That Captured the Legion
Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
An Arrow in Time
Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost -
4.
[no title indexed]
-
5.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man -
6.
Number 58 Steve Ditko
DC Profiles
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Roy Lyons
- Per Sandell
- Terry Staats
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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