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Issue: The Legion of Super-Heroes #260
Publication Date: February 1980
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Issues: #260 of 55 Issues (148 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/20/1979
Volume: 32
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893067002
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #174.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Come to the Circus --And Die!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Giordano (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Legion of Super-Heroes
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Timber Wolf; Princess Projectra; Star Boy; Brainiac 5; Phantom Girl]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-220
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Come to the Circus and Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gerry Conway
Penciller(s): Joe Staton
Inker(s): John Calnan
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 [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Princess Projectra; Brainiac 5; Phantom Girl; Timber Wolf; Star Boy; Mon-El; Wildfire; Light Lass; Sun Boy; Ultra Boy; Shadow Lass]; Aton Gissark; Imik the Juggler; Assistant Manager Clovis
Synopsis: The Legionnaires go undercover as players in a space circus that is menaced by an unknown murderer.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #5/1980 published May 1980
as "Komm in den Zirkus und stirb!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: J-6243
Disclose Notes: Story continues in the following issue.
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Batman and Professor Plutonium

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): Vince Colletta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman; Hostess Twinkies
Character(s): Batman; Professor Plutonium
Synopsis: Professor Plutonium intends to make America's gold reserves disappear, but Batman distracts him with Twinkies and captures him
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: copyright © 1979 Continental Baking Company
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It's a Double Celebration

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman Family
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: house ad for The Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #200, on sale December 6
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack C. Harris [as JCH]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Legion Outpost
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-291
Disclose Notes: letters submitted by Cindy Anderson; Shoshanna Green; Kelly Sorenson; Lisa Morris
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Rozakis
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Answer Man
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Job Number: F-118
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Number 57 Adrienne Roy

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Michael Catron ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): DC Profiles
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Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Script credited suggested by Michael Catron.

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