The Legion of Super-Heroes
#312
[Direct]
(June 1984)
DC,
1980 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.30 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-03-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Karen Berger (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (signed)
- Inks
- Larry Mahlstedt (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin (sourced)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-709
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're under arrest!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Element Lad; Sun Boy]; Science Police officer
- Reprints
-
in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2011 series) ([December] 2011) - in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse (DC, 2014 series) ([November] 2014)
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[no title indexed]
Kenner Toys / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Super Powers Collection
- Characters
- Lex Luthor; Superman; Hawkman; The Joker; Wonder Woman; Batman; Aquaman; The Penguin; The Flash; Brainiac; Green Lantern; Robin
Good Cop, Bad Cop?
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Keith Giffen (plot); Paul Levitz (plot, script)
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen
- Inks
- Karl Kesel
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- John Costanza
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Authentic twenty-third century detective novels? Gi Gi, you're not only a romantic, you're a real antique hound!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Colossal Boy; Element Lad; Brainiac 5; Blok; Shrinking Violet; Cosmic Boy; White Witch; Invisible Kid [Jacques Foccart]; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad]; Gigi Cusimano; Yera Allon; Shvaughn Erin; Chief Kimball Zendak; Dvron; Dr. Gym'll; Superboy; Danielle Foccart; Timm
- Synopsis
- Element Lad and Colossal Boy go undercover as Science Police officers to help uncover a blackmailing bomber. Shrinking Violet leaves Dr. Gym'll's care without his approval and Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl begin their maternity leave.
- Reprints
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2011 series) ([December] 2011)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse (DC, 2014 series) ([November] 2014)
-
[no title indexed]
Oreo Cookies / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Free Batman comic book
- Characters
- Batman
Indexer Notes
After page 4 of Good Cop, Bad Cop?
[no title indexed]
Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gotta-get-a-Grit!
Indexer Notes
Ad for Grit Publishing Co.
[no title indexed]
Swamp Thing / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A plant. A vegetable. A muck-encrusted echo of a man. That's all he ever was. That's all he'll ever be.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Swamp Thing; Abby Arcane
Indexer Notes
Before page 5 of Good Cop, Bad Cop?
[no title indexed]
The Kubert School / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert ?
- Inks
- Joe Kubert ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have you heard about it? The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc.
Indexer Notes
Between pages 8 and 9 of Good Cop, Bad Cop?
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Write Right Now!
- Characters
- Bill Cosby (photo)
Indexer Notes
After page 17 of Good Cop, Bad Cop?
[no title indexed]
Remco Toys / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cross swords with champions! Enter the lost world of the Warlord with Remco toys!
- Characters
- Arak; The Warlord [Travis Morgan]; Hercules; Deimos; Mikola; Machiste
Indexer Notes
Before page 18 of Good Cop, Bad Cop?
[no title indexed]
Blue Devil / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Blue Devil
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Devil
Indexer Notes
After page 21 of Good Cop, Bad Cop?
[no title indexed]
Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Dick Giordano
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Next year, 1985, DC Comics will embark upon a year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary.
Indexer Notes
Before page 22 of "Good Cop, Bad Cop?"
[no title indexed]
Legion of Super-Heroes / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At last! All-new! All-special! Deluxe offset format! By popular demand!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Sun Boy; Element Lad
Indexer Notes
About the upcoming split into the higher format Legion of Super-Heroes and the regular format Tales of the Legion, along with a subscription form.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1.67 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Pencils
- George Pérez (logo Illustration)
- Inks
- George Pérez (logo Illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-1552
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear readers, As you can see from the full-page announcement...
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Robert Hagiwara, M. P. Hughes, Robert Rundle, Michael Pickens, and Sue Kelly.
[no title indexed]
Vigilante / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Vigilante never misses!
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery; superhero
- Characters
- Vigilante
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["You're under arrest!"]
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
["Super Powers Collection"]
Kenner Toys -
2.
Good Cop, Bad Cop?
Legion of Super-Heroes -
3.
["Free Batman comic book"]
Oreo Cookies -
4.
["Gotta-get-a-Grit!"]
Grit Newspaper -
5.
["A plant. A vegetable. A muck-encrusted echo of a man. That's all he ever was. That's all he'll ever be."]
Swamp Thing -
6.
["Have you heard about it? The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc."]
The Kubert School -
7.
["Write Right Now!"]
-
8.
["Cross swords with champions! Enter the lost world of the Warlord with Remco toys!"]
Remco Toys -
9.
["Blue Devil"]
Blue Devil -
10.
["Next year, 1985, DC Comics will embark upon a year-long celebration of its 50th anniversary."]
Meanwhile... -
11.
["At last! All-new! All-special! Deluxe offset format! By popular demand!"]
Legion of Super-Heroes -
12.
["Dear readers, As you can see from the full-page announcement..."]
The Legion Outpost -
13.
["Vigilante never misses!"]
Vigilante -
14.
["Atari presents Moon Patrol"]
Moon Patrol -
15.
["Advanced Dungeons & Dragons video game"]
Intellivision
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Roy Lyons
- Lou Mazzella
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Jim Van Dore
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