Legion of Substitute Heroes Special
#1
[Direct]
([July] 1985)
DC,
1985 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.60 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1985-03-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Karen Berger (credited) (editor); Tom Condon (credited) (managing editor)
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Modern Age U. S.
- Paper Stock
- Mando
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- One-Shot
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #14.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
The Legion of Substitute Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (signed as
giffen) - Inks
- Karl Kesel (signed as
KESEL) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Substitute Heroes: Chlorophyll Kid [Ral Benem]; Color Kid [Ulu Vakk]; Fire Lad [Staq Mavlen]; Infectious Lass [Drura Sehpt]; Polar Boy [Brek Bannin]; Porcupine Pete [Peter Dursin]; Stone Boy [Dag Wentim]
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You Can't Keep a Good Villain Down
The Legion of Substitute Heroes / comic story / 38 pages
- Script
- Keith Giffen (credited) (plot); Paul Levitz (credited) (plot, script)
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (credited)
- Inks
- Karl Kesel (credited)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Job Number
- G-1532
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One by one they came to Earth
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Substitute Heroes: Chlorophyll Kid [Ral Benem]; Color Kid [Ulu Vakk]; Fire Lad [Staq Mavlen]; Infectious Lass [Drura Sehpt]; Night Girl [Lydda Jath]; Polar Boy [Brek Bannin]; Porcupine Pete [Peter Dursin]; Stone Boy [Dag Wentim]
Matter-Eater Lad [Tenzil Kem]; Proty II; Pulsar Stargrave; Gigi Cusimano; Tusker; Eyeful Ethel; Computo (cameo)
Substitute Heroes Clubhouse Blueprint
The Legion of Substitute Heroes / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; superhero
But Seriously, Folks ...
The Legion of Substitute Heroes / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz (credited)
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen
- Inks
- Karl Kesel
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-1944
- Genre
- superhero
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Legion of Substitute Heroes -
1.
You Can't Keep a Good Villain Down
The Legion of Substitute Heroes -
2.
Substitute Heroes Clubhouse Blueprint
The Legion of Substitute Heroes -
3.
But Seriously, Folks ...
The Legion of Substitute Heroes -
4.
Guest Meanwhile... from Abroad
Meanwhile... -
5.
[no title indexed]
DC Checklist
This issue was modified by, among others
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Mark Boyer
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Roy Lyons
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Jason Sacks
- Jim Van Dore
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