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Issue: The Legion of Super-Heroes #265
Publication Date: July 1980
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Issues: #265 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: 04/22/1980
Volume: 32
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893067007
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #178.
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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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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dick Giordano [as dg] (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Giordano [as dg] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Legion of Super-Heroes
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Tyroc; Shadow Lass; Dawnstar; Saturn Girl; Wildfire; Lightning Lad]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-356
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The Brigadoon Syndrome!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gerry Conway (plot); J. M. DeMatteis (script)
Penciller(s): Jim Janes
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 [Tyroc; Shadow Lass; Dawnstar; Saturn Girl; Wildfire; Lightning Lad]
Synopsis: Dawnstar and Shadow Lass are trapped on Tyroc's island home when it shifts into its other dimension. He finds a way for the girls to return home but he prefers to remain with his people.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #10/1980 published October 1980
as Das Brigadoon Syndrom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: J-6566
Disclose Notes: origin of Marzal, the birthplace of Tyroc
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Catman on the Prowl

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 Cup Cakes
Character(s): Batman; Robin; Catman
Synopsis: Robin appeals to the Catman's love of darkness by giving him chocolatey Hostess Cup Cakes, which distracts him long enough to be captured.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Copyright © 1980 Continental Baking Company.
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The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Cover" for the advertising insert.

Begins special insert between pages 10 & 11 of the main story.
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The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cary Bates
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); William M. Palmer (editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Lana Lang; Shanna; Alec; Margaret Wilson; John Bardeen (Nobel scientist, cameo); William Schockley (Nobel scientist, cameo); Walter Brattain (Nobel scientist, cameo)
Synopsis: Alec and Shanna use a pair of TRS-80 computers to help Superman stop Major Disaster after Superman's powers become difficult for him to control.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" #[nn] published July 1980
was The Computers That Saved Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
First Line: Our TRS-80 computer answers check!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Back cover" of advertising insert.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack C. Harris
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Legion Outpost
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-515
Disclose Notes: letters submitted by Karen Wu; Brad Horning
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Volume 80 Issue 16 - Week of April 21, 1980

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?; Fred Hembeck
Penciller(s): ?; Fred Hembeck
Inker(s): ?; Fred Hembeck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; Fred Hembeck
Editor(s): Bob Rozakis
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daily Planet
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1

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