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Superman: The Man of Steel [Best Buy Edition] #1

DC · [August] 2006 · on sale 2006-06

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Identification plate

Series
Superman: The Man of Steel [Best Buy Edition] (DC, 2006 series)
Issue
#1
Publication date
[August] 2006
Key date
2006-08-00
On-sale date
2006-06
Indicia publisher
DC Comics
Price
0.00 FREE
Pages
28
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Supermancover1pencils: Ed Benes; inks: Mariah Benes; colors: Rod ReisSuperman
1The Man of Steelcredits, title page1letters: typeset
2Chapter One: The Secretcomic story9script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tom Ziuko; letters: John CostanzaSuperman [Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
3Chapter Two: The Exposurecomic story9script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tom Ziuko; letters: John CostanzaClark Kent [Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lois Lane (post-Crisis intro)
4Collect All 8 Covers!promo (ad from the publisher)2pencils: various; inks: various; colors: various; letters: typeset
5Epilogue: The Super-Herocomic story4script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tom Ziuko; letters: John CostanzaSuperman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Printings and variants

EditionHow to tell
Leinil Francis Yu CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.
Ed Benes Glowing Eyes CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.
Michael Turner CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.
Jim Lee / Scott Williams CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.
Karl Kerschl CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.
Alex Ross Superman CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.
Alex Ross Clark Kent CoverSee the GCD record for identification notes.

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