The Legion of Super-Heroes
#278
[Direct]
(August 1981)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 33
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-04-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Mike W. Barr (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[Who Is Reflecto?]
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed as
George Perez) - Inks
- George Pérez (signed as George Perez)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein (sourced)
- Job Number
- C-649
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Destroy these energy-chains, Legionnaires, or the world will die!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes: Superboy [Clark Kent] (disguised as Reflecto)
Legion of Super-Heroes: Light Lass [Ayla Ranzz]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]; Mon-El [Lar Gand]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Shadow Lass [Tasmia Mallor]; Timber Wolf [Brin Londo] - Reprints
-
in Superboy (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #5/1982 (Mai 1982) -
in Supercomic (Editorial Novaro, 1967 series) #274 (6 de diciembre de 1982) -
in Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (DC, 2021 series) #2 (2021 [April 2022])
-
Indexer Notes
Job number is the same as the cover to the following issue.
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We Don't Rest on Our Laurels!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
House advertisement for "The New DC - Where the Action Keeps On Coming!"
Tragedy at the Top of the World!
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 25 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (credited) (plot); Roy Thomas (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Jim Janes (credited as Jimmy Janes) (breakdowns); Bruce Patterson (credited as Bruce D. Patterson) (finished art)
- Inks
- Bruce Patterson (credited as Bruce D. Patterson)
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo (credited)
- Letters
- Todd Klein (credited)
- Job Number
- J-7247
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Duo Damsel; Cosmic Boy; Wildfire; Timber Wolf; Light Lass; Blok; Karate Kid; Element Lad; Shrinking Violet; Star Boy; Phantom Girl; Colossal Boy; Mon-El; Princess Projectra; Bouncing Boy; Shadow Lass]; Reflecto; Grimbor the Chainsman; Marte Ida Allon
- Synopsis
- The Legion must battle Grimbor, who accuses them of having caused Charma's death, while all the time Grimbor's Cosmic Chains are drawing ever tighter around Earth.
- Reprints
- in Superboy (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #5/1982 (Mai 1982)
- in Supercomic (Editorial Novaro, 1967 series) #274 (6 de diciembre de 1982)
-
in Hercule (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #5 (mars 1984) [Moins [Minus] 4 pages] - in Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (DC, 2021 series) #2 (2021 [April 2022])
-
Indexer Notes
Brainiac 5 and Dream Girl appear on the Legion Roll Call on the splash page, but not in the story, while Shadow Lass is omitted from the Roll Call.
Superman vs. the Laughing Gas Bandits
Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
- Synopsis
- A group of thieves use laughing gas (laced with Kryptonite!) to disorient their victims and keep Superman away, but the Man of Steel tricks them with Fruit Pies.
- Keywords
- Kryptonite
Indexer Notes
Copyright © 1981 Continental Baking Company.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas (letter replies); Mike W. Barr (credited as MWB) (credit from next issue box)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Jack, LEGION #272 brings us another...
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Mike Blake, Fred Averich, and Pat Estes.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Who Is Reflecto?]
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
We Don't Rest on Our Laurels!
-
2.
Tragedy at the Top of the World!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
3.
Superman vs. the Laughing Gas Bandits
Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman -
4.
["Dear Jack, LEGION #272 brings us another..."]
The Legion Outpost
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Benjamin Beck
- Dwayne Best
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Ramon Schenk
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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