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Issue: The Legion of Super-Heroes #259

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Publication Date: January 1980

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Issues: #259 of 55 Issues (148 Printings)

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Variant: UK Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 32

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893067001

Price: £0.15 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#300)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 The Legion of Super-Heroes #259 [U.S. Cover Price]

The Legion of Super-Heroes #259 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (8 total)

Psycho War

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Dick Giordano (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; Todd Klein (series logo design)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Legion of Super-Heroes

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Princess Projectra; Timber Wolf; Chameleon Boy; Mon-El; Brainiac 5; Shadow Lass; Colossal Boy; Dawnstar; Wildfire; Phantom Girl]

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-219

Notes: Logo design credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Psycho War

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Gerry Conway

Penciller(s): Joe Staton

Inker(s): Dave Hunt

Colorist(s): Gene D'Angelo

Letterer(s): Milt Snapinn

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Legion of Super-Heroes

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Wildfire; Shadow Lass; Chameleon Boy; Karate Kid; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Sun Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy (leaves)]; R. J. Brande; The Psycho-Warrior [Rejis Thomak] (villain); Superman Museum; Martha Kent (dream); Jonathan Kent (dream)

Synopsis: The Legion battles the Psycho-Warrior, a man driven mad by an accident in space that gave him fantastic mental powers. After the villain shows Superboy how his parents will die, Superboy decides to leave the Legion because every time he returns to the 30th century he will remember that terrible moment.

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Pages: 17

Job Number: J-6218

Notes: Story continues from Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1977 series) #258.

The Rescue

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Vince Colletta

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman; Hostess Twinkies

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

Synopsis: Superman saves an alien ship from crash-landing, then shares some Twinkies with the new arrivals.

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Pages: 1

Double Dynamite!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko; Dave Cockrum

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Starman; Plastic Man

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Pages: 1

Notes: house ad for Adventure Comics (DC, 1937 series) #467, on sale October 25

One Mighty Magazine Is Now Two!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Dick Giordano; Kurt Schaffenberger

Inker(s): Dick Giordano; Kurt Schaffenberger

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes

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Pages: 1

Notes: house ad for The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #259 and The New Adventures of Superboy (DC, 1980 series) #1, both on sale October 25

Green Lantern Goes Solo!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Gil Kane

Inker(s): Gil Kane ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino ?

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Lantern

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Pages: 1

Notes: house ad for Green Lantern (DC, 1976 series) #123

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Jack C. Harris [as JCH]

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Legion Outpost

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-392

Notes: letters submitted by Tamsyn O'Flynn; Fred Morgan; Ian Niclo

Volume 79 Issue 43 - Week of October 21, 1979

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?; Fred Hembeck

Penciller(s): ?; Fred Hembeck

Inker(s): ?; Fred Hembeck

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset; Fred Hembeck

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Daily Planet

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Pages: 1