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Issue: Superman #56

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Publication Date: June 1991

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Issues: #56 of 231 Issues (509 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07098930675206

Price: $1.25 CAD
$1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Mike Carlin [as Mikey Carlin]; Dan Thorsland (assistant)

Notes: 1991 Triangle #16.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants2

Superman #56 [Direct]

Superman #56 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

Red Glass: First Symptoms

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Andy Kubert

Inker(s): Andy Kubert

Colorist(s): Glenn Whitmore ?

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]

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Pages: 1

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

Red Glass, Part One: Breaking Up

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): James D. Hudnall

Penciller(s): Ed Hannigan

Inker(s): Will Blyberg [as Willie Blyberg]

Colorist(s): Glenn Whitmore

Letterer(s): Bill Oakley

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent: Kal-El]; Lois Lane (hallucination); Jimmy Olsen (disguised as Lex Luthor; hallucination); Mr. Mxyzptlk (exhibit; hallucination); The Prankster (exhibit; hallucination); Metallo (exhibit; hallucination); Brainiac (exhibit; hallucination); The Joker (exhibit; hallucination); Darkseid (exhibit; hallucination)

Synopsis: Superman visits the "Museum of Dead Villains," exhibit on "Superman's Day of Wrath." He reads he killed all his opponents in 3 weeks starting April 15, 1998. A man explains that Superman left Earth after killing his enemies. As he leaves he meets Lois and attempting to scan her with his x-ray vision, Superman accidentally incinerates her with heat vision and people go nuts. He finds Luthor at Lexcorp, but his things are being moved out: Superman had bankrupted him. Luthor rips off a fake face to reveal Jimmy Olsen underneath, who opens a box of green kryptonite, aiming it directly at Superman.

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Pages: 16

Job Number: G-6382

Notes: Story continues in Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #479 (June 1991).

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Dan Thorsland

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Metropolis Mailbag

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Letters from readers Delmo Walters Jr., Uncle Elvis, Jason Crase, Dale Coe, Robert A. Steffenino, Joe Kucharski III, Big Mike, Ronen Kauffman, Joe Frank, and Jan C. Childress.

Charlie & Company

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Karl Kesel

Penciller(s): Karl Kesel

Inker(s): Karl Kesel

Colorist(s): Glenn Whitmore

Letterer(s): Bill Oakley

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Newsboy Legion

Character(s): Newsboy Legion [Tommy; Flip; Gabby; Big Words; Scrapper]; Guardian [Jim Harper]; Angry Charlie; Thomas Thompkins; Anthony Rodrigues; Walter Johnson (in flashback); Shino Kurosawa; Dabney Donovan (villain, flashback)

Synopsis: The Newsboy Legion celebrates the Guardian's recovery as Angry Charlie looks in from an air vent. Tom tells the Guardian that when he's well, they want him to find what's been raiding their supplies. Angry Charlie steals an end table and eats it. He looks at a photograph captioned "Tommy, Dabney & Me - My new (cloned) body!" He remembers Dabney Donovan injecting one of his monkey subjects with something and creating Angry Charlie. When Charlie awakens, he sees what he and the other monkeys have become: they destroy the lab. In the air vent, Angry Charlie continues to look at the photograph.

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Pages: 5