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Issue: Adventures of Superman #554
Publication Date: January 1998
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Issues: #554 of 230 Issues (529 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 11/19/1997
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76194120003355411
Price: $2.75 CAD
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1998 Triangle #3.
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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
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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It Lurks Beneath Metropolis!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Ripper
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #62 published September 1999
as Das Monster aus der Tiefe [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
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Children and Monsters!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman Blue [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Dirk Armstrong; Simone DeNiege; Inspector Maggie Sawyer; Inspector Dan Turpin; Burton Thompson [Hunter Thompson]; Danny Gray; Mr. Harold; Mayor Sackett; Doctor Singh; Doctor Cordova; Contessa Erica Alexandra del Portenza; Lex Luthor; Lena Luthor; Ripper
Synopsis: Superman Blue meets Luthor's daughter Lena, and Luthor gets in a zinger about Superman Blue being able to have children. The mayor of Metropolis brings in Burton "Hunter" Thompson to hunt the Ripper monster. The Metropolis Special Crimes Unit, along with Thompson and Superman hunt down the Ripper, who turns out to be intelligent, but Thompson kills it before more can be learned. It is revealed that Thompson is behind the creation of the Ripper and he has other monsters.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #62 published September 1999
as Kinder und Monster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kryptograms
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Mike McAvennie answers letters from readers.

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