Adventures of Superman #478 [Direct]
(May 1991)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1991-03-28
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Dan Thorsland (credited) (assistant editor); Mike Carlin (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

1991 Triangle #14.
This issue has variants:

Time and Time Again! Phase Seven (Table of Contents)

Legion of Super-Heroes; Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Dan Jurgens (signed as DJ)
Inks
Art Thibert (signed as A. T.)
Colors
Glenn Whitmore ?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Against Dev-Em... side by side with the Legion of Super-Heroes ...for the sake of Earth's moon!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Dev-Em; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
Reprints

Moon Rocked (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Jurgens (credited)
Pencils
Dan Jurgens (credited)
Inks
Brett Breeding (credited)
Colors
Glenn Whitmore (credited)
Letters
Albert DeGuzman (credited)

Job Number
G-6275
First Line of Dialogue or Text
We interrupt this program to bring you this special live report!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Laurel Gand; Rokk Krinn [Cosmic Boy]; Reep Daggle [Chameleon]; Garth Ranzz [Lightning Lad]; Imra Ardeen-Ranzz [Saturn Girl]; Furball [Brin Londo; Timber Wolf]; Salu Digby [Shrinking Violet]; Brainiac 5 (flashback); Sun Boy (flashback); Blok (flashback); Invisible Kid [Jacques Foccart] (flashback); Mon-El (flashback); Superboy (of the Pocket Universe, flashback); Dream Girl (flashback); Wildfire (flashback); Polar Boy (flashback); Element Lad (flashback); Ultra Boy (flashback); Colossal Boy (flashback)]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lucy Lane; Sarah Olsen; Bibbo Bibbowski; Perry White; Alice White; Elroy (Lois' cat); Linear Man; Booster Gold [Michael Jon Carter] (cameo); Dev-Em (villain); Dominators (villains)
Synopsis
Superman helps the former Legion members prevent Earth's moon from blowing up. This upsets the Linear Man's plans, so he blows it up anyway, which finally sends Clark back to his proper time.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story is continues from SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #55. The Legion era is set in the year 2995.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Kryptograms / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Thorsland
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Matt Smith, Alan C. Carroll, Tim Durbin, Charlie Harris, Arnold Jordan, MD Allen, Karl C. Popp and Jason Crase - and responses from Dan Thorsland.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Time and Time Again! Phase Seven
    Legion of Super-Heroes; Superman
  2. 1. Moon Rocked
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Kryptograms
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Morbus Iff
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Patrick Wood