Adventures of the Outsiders #42 [Newsstand]
(February 1987)

DC, 1986 Series
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Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-11-20
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893112202
Editing
Mike Barr; Jonathan Peterson

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #33.
This issue is a variant of Adventures of the Outsiders (DC, 1986 series) #42 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Outsiders / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Kevin Nowlan (signed as K. Nowlan [cursive])
Inks
Kevin Nowlan (signed as K. Nowlan [cursive])
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Outsiders [Geo-Force; Black Lightning; Halo; Metamorpho]; Force of July [Major Force; Silent Majority; Sparkler]
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Chasing the Dollar! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Outsiders / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Mike W. Barr
Pencils
Jim Aparo
Inks
Jim Aparo
Colors
Helen Vesik
Letters
Jim Aparo
Genre
superhero
Characters
Outsiders [Metamorpho; Geo-Force; Halo; Looker; Black Lightning; Katana]; Force of July [Lady Liberty; Major Force; Silent Majority; Sparkler; Mayflower]; The Bad Samaritan; King Gregor; Queen Ilona; Premier Gorbachev
Synopsis
The Outsiders travel into Russia on the trail of the stolen Markovian currency printing plates
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The Gold Standard (Table of Contents: 2)

Metamorpho / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Mike W. Barr
Pencils
Joe Staton
Inks
Joe Staton
Colors
Helen Vesik
Letters
John Costanza
Genre
superhero
Characters
Metamorpho; Sapphire Stagg; Simon Stagg; Java; Dr. Bensen Berner; Hugo Thugg; Bruno Thugg
Synopsis
The Thugg brothers try to steal the matter transmutation ray that Dr. Berner is creating for Simon Stagg.
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Indexer Notes

Drawn and written in a style reminiscent of the Fradon-Haney Metamorpho.

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

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
Dick Giordano (credited) (signed as Dick)
Letters
typeset
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Outsiders
  2. 1. Chasing the Dollar!
    The Outsiders
  3. 2. The Gold Standard
    Metamorpho
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
This issue was modified by
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Steven Samuels
  • Jim Van Dore
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