Adventures of Superman #493 [Direct]
(August 1992)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1992-07-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike Carlin (editor); Dan Thorsland (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

1992 Triangle #31.
This issue has variants:

The Blaze/Satanus War! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Tom Grummett (signed)
Inks
Doug Hazlewood (signed)
Colors
Dennis Janke
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blaze; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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[The Blaze/Satanus War, Part 1 of 4]: Sibling Rivalry (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-7584
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Ron Troupe; Jimmy Olsen; Mr. Olivier; Jerry White (vision); Nick; Whit; Monty; Chuck; Michaelangelo; Maddy; Sam Foswell; Andrea Johnson; Lord Satanus [Collin Thornton] (first as Lord Satanus; villain); Blaze [Angela Blaze] (villain)
Synopsis
Blaze uses Sam Foswell to open portals from Hell to Earth, allowing her to send her demons to attack the Newstime building.

Indexer Notes

Story continues in ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #680. Lord Satanus identity is revealed to be Collin Thornton in SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #71.

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

Kryptograms / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Thorsland
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Elvis Orten, Fritz Baugh, Augie De Blieck, Jr., Stephen Jung, Kerry Acker, Jonathan Pepper, Dale Coe, Henry Daniel Hettmannsperger and Rick Staffore - and responses from Dan Thorsland.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Blaze/Satanus War!
    Superman
  2. 1. [The Blaze/Satanus War, Part 1 of 4]: Sibling Rivalry
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Kryptograms
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  • Juan Gonzalez
  • Morbus Iff
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Thomas Kina
  • Daniel Thingvold
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