Superman #18 [Direct]
(June 1988)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1988-02-16
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Renee Witterstaetter (credited) (assistant editor); Mike Carlin (credited as Michael Carlin) (editor)

Issue Notes

Shipping date of February 23, 1988 per Direct Currents #1 (January 1988). Corrected shipping date of February 16, 1988 per Direct Currents #2 (February 1988), confirmed from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

Return to Krypton (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Mignola (signed as Mignola)
Inks
Mike Mignola (signed as Mignola)
Colors
?
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jor-El; Lara
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

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Return to Krypton (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne (credited)
Pencils
Mike Mignola (credited)
Inks
Karl Kesel (credited)
Colors
Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra Scotese)
Letters
Bill Oakley (credited)
Job Number
G-3665
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Hawkman [Carter Hall; Katar Hol]; Hawkwoman [Shiera Hall; Shayera Thal]; Jor-El (hallucination); Lara (hallucination)
Synopsis
Hawkman and Hawkwoman take Superman to Krypton.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continues from ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #600.

[June 1988] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

DCI with Johnny DC / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Superman / letters page / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script
Renee Witterstaetter
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-3142

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Hurricane Heeran, David Metz, Kip Talbott, Steve Getman, Dale Coe, Charles D. Brown and Vince Forrington - and responses from Renee Witterstaetter.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Return to Krypton
    Superman
  2. 1. Return to Krypton
    Superman
  3. 2. [June 1988]
    DCI with Johnny DC
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Superman
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Morbus Iff
  • John Monagle
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Van Dore
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