Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes #256 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	This Is Your Life -- and Death -- Brainiac 5!	cover	1	pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano	Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]]; Science Police
1	This is Your Life -- And Death, Brainiac 5!	comic story	17	script: Gerry Conway; pencils: Joe Staton; inks: David Hunt; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Ben Oda	Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]; Cosmic Boy [Rokk Krinn]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]; Matter-Eater Lad [Tenzil Kem] (cameo); Mon-El [Lar Gand]; Shadow Lass [Tasmia Mallor]; Shrinking Violet [Salu Digby]; Gollo
3	-	letters page	1	script: JCH
4	-	in-house column	0.6	script: Bob Rozakis
5	Number 47 Carol Fein	in-house column	0.4	script: Paul Kupperberg

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Whitman	barcode 3067010
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-8085-7	2018	On eBay ›

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