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Issue: The Man of Steel #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1993
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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue (4 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Fourth Printing
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 164
ISBN: 0930289285
UPC/EAN: 76194120210500114
Price: $9.95 CAD
$7.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
16 (9 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Andrew Helfer (original series); Barry Marx (collected edition)
Disclose Notes: Book design by Keith Wilson.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; Newsprint interiors
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): John Byrne
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
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The Man of Steel

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Publication data page with an image of the back of Superman's cape as background.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The new Superman has many fathers and mothers...
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Why Superman? Why Today?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
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Superman: A Personal View

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): John Byrne
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Includes small reproductions of the 7 covers of the original series.
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Book One - 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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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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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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Book Two - The Story of the Century

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]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Lex Luthor; Mr. Guthrie
Synopsis: Superman meets Lois and Clark gets a job at the Daily Planet.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-2726
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Book Three - One Night in Gotham City...

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]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Henry Jarrell (dies); VILLAINS: Magpie [Margaret Pye]; Bull Carter (dies)
Synopsis: Superman comes to Gotham City to arrest the outlaw Batman, interrupting Batman's pursuit of the criminal Magpie. While pursuing the villain together, Superman comes to realize that Gotham City is very different from Metropolis and needs a different type of hero.
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Book Four - Enemy Mine...

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]; Lois Lane; Mayor Frank Berkowitz; Yvette; Lex Luthor
Synopsis: Luthor allows a group of terrorists to attack his luxury liner so he can meet Superman and put him on his payroll. But Superman refuses to be bought and Luthor is jailed for reckless endangerment. In response Luthor vows revenge on the Man of Steel.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Superman's first encounter with Lex Luthor (post-Crisis).
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Book Five - The Mirror, Crack'd...

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]; Lois Lane; Lucy Lane; Jimmy Olsen; VILLAINS: Lex Luthor; Bizarro (dies); Dr. Teng
Synopsis: Lex tries to create a clone of Superman, resulting in the creation of Bizarro.
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Disclose Notes: First post-Crisis Bizarro.
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Book Six - The Haunting

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; Lana Lang; Jor-El (hologram); Lara (hologram); Lois Lane (cameo)
Synopsis: On a trip home to Smallville, Superman discovers the spaceship that brought him to Earth is missing. But at the same time he triggers a computer program that reveals to him his Kryptonian heritage and places all of Krypton's knowledge in his mind. He also discovers what revealing his powers to Lana years ago did to her and decides he wants to actively pursue a life with Lois.
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Pages: 22
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Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Short biographies of John Byrne and Dick Giordano.

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