DC Comics Presents
#61
[Newsstand]
(September 1983)
DC,
1978 Series
- Volume
- 6
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-06-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893121609
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of DC Comics Presents (DC, 1978 series) #61 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
Murdermek!
OMAC; Superman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed as
George Perez) - Inks
- George Pérez (signed as George Perez)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- S-4177
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- OMAC [Buddy Blank]; Superman [Clark Kent]; Murdermek
- Reprints
-
in Stålmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1986 -
in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #53 (1983) -
in Supermann (Semic, 1985 series) #3/1986 (uke 12 1986) -
in Adventures of Superman: George Pérez (DC, 2020 series) ([July] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
![Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents (DC, 1978 series) #61 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/843/w200/843193.jpg?-4459535906062039644)
![Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents (1978 series) #61 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/4/w100/4615.jpg?6263522123921326139)
![Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents (1978 series) #61 [Canadian]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1201/w100/1201104.jpg?1685790048177174475)
The Once-and-Future War!
OMAC; Superman / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- George Pérez (breakdowns); Pablo Marcos (finished art)
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos; Rick Hoberg (ink assistance)
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- S-3873
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Norman Blank (introduction); OMAC [Buddy Blank] (featured); Superman [Clark Kent] (featured); Murdermek (villain); Intercorp Scientists (villains)
- Synopsis
- Terminator-style story with Murdermek traveling back in time to kill the ancestor of Buddy Blank (aka OMAC).
- Reprints
- in Stålmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #3/1986
- in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #53 (1983)
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #50 (July 1984) [recolored]
- in Supermann (Semic, 1985 series) #3/1986 (uke 12 1986)
- in Countdown Special: OMAC (DC, 2008 series) #1 (April 2008)
- in Adventures of Superman: George Pérez (DC, 2020 series) ([July] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- Brother Eye; Earth-AD; Earth-One; Metro Central Station; Metropolis
Indexer Notes
Job number, page count, and credits for script confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Pair Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-4182
Indexer Notes
Job number and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Letters from Mark M. Thomase, T.E. Pouncey, Bill Henley, Jr., T.M. Maple, Adam Burchess, and Angel Santos.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Murdermek!
OMAC; Superman -
1.
The Once-and-Future War!
OMAC; Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Meanwhile... -
3.
[no title indexed]
Pair Mail
This issue was modified by
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Steven Samuels
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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