The Legion of Super-Heroes
#287
[Direct]
(May 1982)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 34
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-01-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Mike W. Barr (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Legion of Super-Heroes vs. Kharlak
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (signed)
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-287
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Shrinking Violet; Timber Wolf]; Kharlak
- Reprints
-
in Play Saga (Play Press, 1990 series) #18 -
in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 1989 series) #[Second Printing] (1989), #[First Printing] ([November] 1989) - in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2010 series) (2010 [January 2011])
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 2014 series) ([April] 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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Save the Suicide Squad
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 18 pages
- Job Number
- J-7987
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Light Lass; Star Boy; Blok; Element Lad; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Chameleon Boy; Timber Wolf; Shrinking Violet; Colossal Boy]; Kharlak; Khunds
- Synopsis
- Three Legionnaires infiltrate the Khund homeworld but are discovered and forced to fight renowned warrior Kharlak. They defeat him just as a rescue mission arrives to take them home, but the rescue ship crashes.
- Reprints
-
in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #22/1982 (uke 44 1982) -
in Omega Men (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #2 (mai 1985) [Moins 1 page [Minus 1 page]] - in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2010 series) (2010 [January 2011])
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 2014 series) ([April] 2014)
-
The Saga Continues!
Swamp Thing / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
house ad for Saga of the Swamp Thing, The (DC, 1982 series) #1, on sale February 11
The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Man
Firestorm / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
house ad for Fury of Firestorm, The (DC, 1982 series) #1, on sale March 4
Prologue to Darkness
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- J-8022
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El; Shadow Lass]; Darkseid (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Mon-El and Shadow Lass investigate a lifeless planet that has drifted into an interstellar space lane. Finding nothing except automated booby-traps, they leave, but on the other side of the planet, an unidentified figure awakes.
- Reprints
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 1989 series) #[Second Printing] (1989), #[First Printing] ([November] 1989)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2010 series) (2010 [January 2011])
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 2014 series) ([April] 2014)
-
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 0.75 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Mike Turner and Robert A. Buethe.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Statement of October 1, 1981
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 117,038
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 115,738
Owner: DC Comics, Inc., wholly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., a publicly-held company, both at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10019
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Legion of Super-Heroes vs. Kharlak
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
Save the Suicide Squad
Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
The Saga Continues!
Swamp Thing -
3.
The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Man
Firestorm -
4.
Prologue to Darkness
Legion of Super-Heroes -
5.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost -
6.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Dwayne Best
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Roy Lyons
- Lou Mazzella
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
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