Superman: The Man of Steel #40 [Direct Sales]
(January 1995)

DC, 1991 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Price
1.50 USD; 2.10 CAD; 0.70 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1994-11-17
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
761941200507 04011
Editing
Mike Carlin (editor); Chris Duffy (assistant)

Issue Notes

1995 Triangle #1.
This issue has variants:

Dead Again! Mind Boggling! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jon Bogdanove (signed)
Inks
Dennis Janke (signed)
Colors
Marjorie Strauss; Brett Breeding (separations)
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Superman: The Man of Steel (DC, 1991 series) #40 [Direct Sales]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

Mind Games [Dead Again, Part 9 of 11] (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Louise Simonson
Pencils
Jon Bogdanove
Inks
Dennis Janke; Joe Rubinstein ("with...")
Colors
Glenn Whitmore
Letters
Ken Lopez
Job Number
G-9733
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Forever People [Big Bear; Mark Moonrider; Serifan; Vykin the Black]; Orion (cameo); Lightray (cameo); Lois Lane; Perry White; Alice White; Keith Robert Parks; Inspector Maggie Sawyer; Franklin Stern; Babe; Dave; Dan; George; Sammy; Brainiac [Milton Fine; Vril Dox] (villain)
Synopsis
Brainiac uses monsters to get the people of Metropolis to distrust Superman.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continues from ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #705 and story continues in SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #96.

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

Tempered Steel / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Duffy
Pencils
Jon Bogdanove (signed)
Inks
Dennis Janke
Colors
Marjorie Strauss
Letters
typeset
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (multiple versions)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Includes a key to the artistic interpretations of Batman on the cover to SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL #37. Letters from readers - A. Clay, Frank Balkin, Mike Durband, David Mayfield and Ann Sidbrant - and responses from Chris Duffy.

DC Universe 25: What Exactly Does an Inker Do? (Table of Contents: 3)

DC Universe / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jim Balent
Inks
Scott Hanna; Gerry Fernandez; Jed Hotchkiss
Letters
typeset
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Harvey Bullock

Indexer Notes

Article explaining what an inker does and 3 examples based on a panel drawn by Jim Balent.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Dead Again! Mind Boggling!
    Superman
  2. 1. Mind Games [Dead Again, Part 9 of 11]
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Tempered Steel
  4. 3. DC Universe 25: What Exactly Does an Inker Do?
    DC Universe
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Morbus Iff
  • Thomas Kina
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.