Adventures of Superman #481 [Direct]
(August 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
1991-06-27
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike Carlin; Dan Thorsland (assistant)

Issue Notes

1991 Triangle #25.
This issue has variants:

Catch the Death Train! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jerry Ordway (signed)
Inks
Jerry Ordway (signed)
Colors
Jerry Ordway (signed)
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

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The Big Drain! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Jerry Ordway
Pencils
Tom Grummett
Inks
Doug Hazlewood
Colors
Glenn Whitmore
Letters
Albert DeGuzman
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; Sam Foswell; Kevin Dooley (waiter); Ron Troupe; Collin Thornton; Maggie Sawyer; Inspector Bill Henderson; Amanda Waller (cameo); Parasite [Rudy Jones] (villain)
Synopsis
Jimmy misses his job interview with Newstime, and the job goes to Ron Troupe. The Parasite drains the life out of the riders on six subway cars.

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

Kryptograms / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Thorsland
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Jim Kelly, Lon Wolf, John Larkin, Charles D. Brown, Sra Gerard M. Brown, Brian A. Gray and Mark Balbes - and responses from Dan Thorsland.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Catch the Death Train!
    Superman
  2. 1. The Big Drain!
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Kryptograms
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  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Morbus Iff
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Thomas Kina
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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