Adventures of Superman #486 [Direct]
(January 1992)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1991-11-29
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

1992 Triangle #3.
This issue has variants:

Prison Break In?! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jerry Ordway (signed)
Inks
Jerry Ordway (signed)
Colors
Jerry Ordway (signed)
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Purge
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Purge (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
Job Number
G-6283
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lucy Lane; Sam Lane; Ella Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Miss Ruiz; High-Pockets; Grover; Officer Rogers; Dan Turpin; Ugly Mannheim (villain); Gillespie (villain); Intergang (villain); Purge (villain, first appearance; an Intergang robot)
Synopsis
Gillespie orders a hit on Ugly Mannheim... but that's what Mannheim was counting on him doing.

Batman's Best Friend Isn't on the Streets Tonight (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman; American Heart Association / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jim Aparo (signed)
Inks
Jim Aparo (signed)
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Commissioner James Gordon

Indexer Notes

Public Service Announcement for American Heart Association.

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

Kryptograms / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Thorsland
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Mark Lucas, Joe Frank, Jonathan Liming, John Rule, Dale Coe, Elvis Orten, Jan C. Childress, Harlan J. Bryan and Richard Yanchus - and responses from Dan Thorsland.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Prison Break In?!
    Superman
  2. 1. Purge
    Superman
  3. 2. Batman's Best Friend Isn't on the Streets Tonight
    Batman; American Heart Association
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Kryptograms
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  • Daniel Thingvold
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