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Issue: Adventure Comics #5 / 508
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Title:
Is Variant Variant: 508 Cover
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [swirl]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 12/09/2009
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76194128102500521
Price: $3.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
3 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Sean Ryan
Disclose Notes: 1 in 10 variant.

Indicia reads: Adventure Comics #5/Adventure Comics #508 (Variant Cover).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Francis Manapul
Francis Manapul
Brian Buccellato
Typeset
Subject Matter
Superboy-Prime; Superboy
Superboy-Prime; Black Lantern Alexander Luthor; Superboy [Conner Kent]; Lori; Krypto; Lex Luthor
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Cover is an homage to the cover of Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #300. Superboy inset taken from interior story. Cover bannered as part of the “Blackest Night” event.
He Primed Me, Part Two: Flame War

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Geoff Johns; Sterling Gates
Jerry Ordway
Bob Wiacek; Jerry Ordway
Brian Buccellato
Ken Lopez
Subject Matter
superhero
Superboy-Prime
Superboy-Prime; Black Lantern Alexander Luthor; Black Lantern Ballistic; Black Lantern Bushido; Black Lantern Charaxes; Black Lantern Element Lad; Black Lantern Geist; Black Lantern Major Disaster; Black Lantern Nightblade; Black Lantern Razorsharp; Black Lantern Sun Boy; Laurie Lemmon; Superman (memory); Flash (memory); Impulse (memory); Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-Prime) [Brainiac 5; Ultra Boy] (memory); Risk (memory); Power Girl (memory)
Realizing his destiny is controlled by the people at DC Comics, Superboy-Prime tries to leave his fight with the Black Lanterns and take out his frustrations on the DC employees. But Black Lantern Alexander Luthor transports the Black Lanterns and Superboy-Prime to Prime's basement to continue the fight. Prime tries to take possession of one of the Black Lantern rings, but it refuses to let him, exploding in a burst of light and leaving him alone in his basement remembering his love for Laurie. Just then, Laurie arrives and tells Clark that everything will be all right from now on.
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Seen in the DC offices are Dan Didio, Simona Martore, Mike Carlin, Eddie Berganza, Adam Schlagman, and many others. All of the Black Lanterns other than Alexander Luthor are unidentified, as are the victims Superboy-Prime remembers. There is no explanation for why Legion corpses should exist in the 21st century.
The Boy of Steel

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Geoff Johns
Francis Manapul
Francis Manapul
Brian Buccellato
Steve Wands
Subject Matter
superhero
Superboy
Superboy [Conner Kent]; Krypto; Lori; Lex Luthor
Superboy finds Lori vandalizing a doctor's office and also finds out a little bit more about Lori's life.
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