Orion #1
(June 2000)

DC, 2000 Series
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Price
2.50 USD; 3.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2000-04-19
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
761941215921 00111
Editing
Joey Cavalieri (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

Series logo designed by Alex Jay (credited in the letter column of issue #7).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Orion / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walter Simonson (signed as Simonson (brontosaurus))
Inks
Walter Simonson (signed as Simonson (brontosaurus))
Colors
Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh ?
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero; science fiction
Characters
Darkseid; Orion; Tigra
Universe
DC : mainstream
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Indexer Notes

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

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O Beautiful for Spacious Skies... (Table of Contents: 1)

Orion / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Walter Simonson (credited)
Pencils
Walter Simonson (credited); Cliff Chiang (backgrounds)
Inks
Walter Simonson (credited)
Colors
Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh (credited)
Letters
John Workman (credited)
Genre
superhero; science fiction
Characters
The New Gods: Darkseid; DeSaad; Highfather; Justeen; Kalibak; Lightray; Orion; Tigra
Dan "Terrible" Turpin
Universe
DC : mainstream
Synopsis
Orion is reeling from his mother's revelation that he is not the son of Darkseid after all, and he flies to Apokolips to find Darkseid. However, Darkseid is on Earth with Desaad where they are conducting a deadly experiment in a small Nebraska town.
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Indexer Notes

Chiang assisting Simonson noted in the text page of #2 and his exact role verified by Ralf Haring.

The Fourth World, Jack Kirby, and Me (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Walter Simonson (credited)
Letters
typeset
Synopsis
Simonson writes about his early exposure to Kirby's Fourth World thirty years earlier and his desire to build upon it in the present day.

Indexer Notes

Publisher credits.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Orion
  2. 1. O Beautiful for Spacious Skies...
    Orion
  3. 2. The Fourth World, Jack Kirby, and Me
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ken Austin
  • Dwayne Best
  • John Censullo
  • Lionel English
  • Ralf Haring
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Jim Van Dore
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