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Issue: The Man of Steel #1
Publication Date: October 1986
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (19 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Canadian
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/10/1986
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893177301
Price: $1.00 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Andrew Helfer
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #29.

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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: limited series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): John Byrne (signed)
Inker(s): John Byrne (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; Alex Jay (logo design)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This cover depicts the explosion of Krypton.

Logo design credit from Todd Klein.
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The Man of Steel

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Giordano
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Meanwhile...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Dick Giordano discusses the new direction for Superman.
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Prologue: From Out the Green Dawn...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Jor-El (post-Crisis intro); Lara (post-Crisis intro); Kelex (intro); Kelor; Kal-El (as baby, post-Crisis intro)
Synopsis: Lara and Jor-El discuss their unborn son, and how Jor-El intends to protect him. As Krypton begins its final eruptions, Jor-El sends Kal-El to Earth.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-2725
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Chapter One: The Secret

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Clark Kent [Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent (post-Crisis intro); Martha Kent (post-Crisis intro); Lana Lang (post-Crisis intro)
Synopsis: Clark Kent is now a star football player, helped by additional strength. But his foster father reveals that he is adopted and is an alien from another planet.
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Pages: 10
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Chapter Two: The Exposure

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Clark Kent [Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lois Lane (post-Crisis intro)
Synopsis: After helping out secretly for years, Clark Kent is forced into doing his first public super-deed, saving the space-plane Constitution. In doing so, he has his first meeting with Lois Lane.
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Pages: 10
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Epilogue: The Super-Hero

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
Synopsis: The Kents design and make a costume for Clark, and come up with a way for him to look different in both identities as he adopts his Superman identity.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Superman: A Personal View

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-2472
Disclose Notes: John Byrne talks about his introduction to Superman.
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Coming Every Two Weeks!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): John Byrne
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the back cover. Displays black and white versions of all six covers for this series, minus the cover text.

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