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ACTION COMICS #877
Written by Greg Rucka
Art by Eddy Barrows & Ruy José
Cover by Andrew Robinson
Nightwing and Flamebird have beaten back Ursa’s first assault. But Round Two is about to begin! Forget brutal – now it gets personal.
On sale May 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US



SUPERMAN #688
Written by James Robinson
Art by Renato Guedes & José Wilson Magalhães
Cover by Andrew Robinson
Mon-El’s role as Superman’s stand-in for Metropolis is threatened by a sudden and mysterious power loss. How can he be the hero he needs to be without any special abilities? Meanwhile the Guardian and his Science Police go to the rescue of a missing member of the Legion of Superheroes. And who is the spy within the Science Police ranks?
On sale May 27 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

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SUPERMAN/BATMAN #60
Written by Michael Green & Mike Johnson
Art and cover by Francis Manapul
Rising star artist Francis Manapul joins Michael Green and Mike Johnson for a special 2-part story we could only call "Mash-Up"! When the going gets tough in the city of Gothamopolis, there's only one thing to do: call in the Justice Titans to save the day! Wait, what?
On sale May 20 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

No Legion connection, just wanted to promote Francis' next gig...Chris Batista will be doing the art for ANIMAL MAN as well!

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SUPERMAN: WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #3
Written by James Robinson & Greg Rucka
Art by Pete Woods
Cover by Gary Frank
Variant cover by Eric Canete
With Superman now drafted into New Krypton’s Military Guild, it seems that General Zod finally has the Man of Steel under his control. But when given a command to commit an act of brutality against his fellow Kryptonians, Superman must choose between following orders and following his conscience – at the risk of being branded a traitor by his own people!
Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. For every 25 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Gary Frank), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by Eric Canete). Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.
On sale May 6 • 3 of 12 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US



GREEN LANTERN CORPS #36
Written by Peter J. Tomasi
Art and cover by Patrick Gleason & Rebecca Buchman
Variant cover by Rodolfo Migliari
Prelude to BLACKEST NIGHT! The penultimate chapter of “Emerald Eclipse” arrives as the sciencell riot runs rampant. Oa burns as the War of Lights rages within. Many sectors away, Sodam Yat must make the ultimate sacrifice as he attempts to save the xenophobic people of his native world Daxam.
Retailers please note: This issue will ship with two covers. For every 25 copies of the Standard Edition (with a cover by Patrick Gleason & Rebecca Buchman), retailers may order one copy of the Variant Edition (with a cover by Rodolfo Migliari). Please see the Previews Order Form for more information.
On sale May 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US



JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #27
Written by Jerry Ordway
Art by Jerry Ordway & Bob Wiacek
Cover by Jerry Ordway
The younger JSA team members find their headquarters in total lockdown – with The Flash, Green Lantern and Wildcat trapped inside! Can the junior JSA-ers break into their own home base? And what secret from the Atomic Age seeks retribution from the three founding members?
On sale May 27 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US



R.E.B.E.L.S. #4
Written by Tony Bedard
Art by Claude St. Aubin & Scott Hanna
Cover by Ed Benes & Rob Hunter
The stakes grow higher as the galaxy’s new would-be conqueror stands revealed. Dox and the Omega Men each plot their next steps while the alien Khunds and Dominators get involved against the rising mysterious threat to their galaxies. Believe us, the last page of this issue will blow even Dox’s mind!
On sale May 13 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

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STRANGE ADVENTURES #3
Written by Jim Starlin
Art by Manuel Garcia & Al Milgrom and Rafael Albuquerque
Cover by Jim Starlin & Rob Hunter
Comet and Eye have to deal with a very different and dangerous version of The Weird while Adam Strange travels to Hardcore Station only to discover that the space city holds unexpected perils. Bizarro also arrives at Hardcore and finds it most unwelcoming.
On sale May 6 • 3 of 8 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US

Legion connection?



SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? DELUXE EDITION HC
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Dave Gibbons, Curt Swan & George Perez, Kurt Schaffenberger, Murphy Anderson and Rick Veitch & Al Williamson
Cover by Brian Bolland
Legendary writer Alan Moore’s seminal Superman issues are collected in this Deluxe Edition hardcover featuring beautiful art from Dave Gibbons (WATCHMEN), Curt Swan (ACTION COMICS) and Rick Veitch (SWAMP THING)! Collects the two-part “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?” from SUPERMAN #423 and ACTION COMICS #583 as Superman faces his greatest foes and his final battle! Also featuring the classic story “For the Man who has Everything” from ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #11 where Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman fight the evil warlord Mongul for the fate of The Man of Steel. And in DC COMICS PRESENTS #85, Superman meets Swamp Thing, a character fans have identified with Moore for over 20 years!
Advance-solicited; on sale July 8 • 7 1/16" x 10 7/8",
128 pg, FC, $24.99 US



SUPERMAN: TALES FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE TP
Written by Jerry Siegel, Otto Binder and others
Art by Curt Swan, Al Plastino and others
Cover by Gary Frank
Explore the Phantom Zone with these classics stories! Collects ADVENTURE COMICS #283,300, ACTION COMICS #336, SUPERMAN’S GIRLDFRIEND, LOIS LANE #33, SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62, SUPERMAN #157,205, SUPERBOY #89,104 and WHO’S WHO #18.
Advance-solicited; on sale June 24 • 144 pg, FC, $19.99 US



SUPERGIRL: COSMIC ADVENTURES IN THE EIGHTH GRADE #6
Written by Landry Q. Walker
Art and cover by Eric Jones
How will Supergirl ever wrap up all of the cosmic craziness that has developed since her arrival on Earth? Arch-frenemies, scheming faculty, an intergalactic orange kitty and a flying horse are just a few things that come her way in this final, action-packed issue!
On sale May 6 • 6 of 6 • 32 pg, FC, $2.50 US

say, which one did you get those from? CBG or comics continuum? I don't see Comics Continuum releasing the DC solicitation yet.

and no mention of Adventure Comics?

Adventure #1 is slated to be released in June.

What? Give up chocolate?

He's alive and well in the 31st century so what exactly is the "ultimate sacrifice?"

maybe he will be projected into the Phantom Zone and wait for 1000 years later? Just kidding... *duck*

Newsarama

The Superman and REBELS covers are just outstanding!

I love Lar so much and the cover is actually kind of humorous.

The female on REBELS' cover isn't a version of Stealth, is she?

Maybe, Lady Quark?
Is she still dead?
But, her being there wouldn't shock me as much as Stealth would.

Just silly guesses.

The only ones I really see are Superman and the trades (for strong Legion connections).

I might have to pick up Superman since that seems to have a lot of Legion going on, I guess it depends on how Robinson writes Mon in the first issue.

Honestly May's solits do nothing for me, which is sad. Also, what's up with the price point on the Final Crisis trades, they are all $20 but don't have that many pages (at least I don't think they do).

Also, Last Son? Worth picking up, I decided to hold out for the trade on this arc and that was so long ago I don't remember if I care...

thanks!! and YAHHHHH good to see Astro City back! Love reading Astro City.

The Superman and REBELS covers are just outstanding!

I love Lar so much and the cover is actually kind of humorous.

The female on REBELS' cover isn't a version of Stealth, is she?

Maybe, Lady Quark?
Is she still dead?
But, her being there wouldn't shock me as much as Stealth would.

Just silly guesses.


I'm thinking Lydea Mallor...Actually hoping.
She and her deceased Mother, Lyrissa Mallor (who's almost sure to return as a Black Lantern) have such wasted potential.

I'm completley stoked about Robinson writing Mon-El and Mon-El getting the lead in Superman.


If it was anyone other than Robinson I would have a great deal of apprehension and fear that Mon-El is about to be broken again, right after we just got him back.

IMO, for most writers developing Mon-El's character would entail making him as much like Superman as humanly possible...

Robinson OTOH, even if he deliberately sets out to make Mon-El a Superman clone, won't succeed. He's just too quirky of a writer. I mean that's the main reason his runs on Batman and Superman have been met with mixed reaction...because they have archetypical and well established personalities and characters and the second Robinson gets on them he makes sometimes jarring and distracting alterations to their personalities without even trying to do so IMHO.

In this case I bet he's got free reign to cut loose with Mon-El...and the end result is going to be a Mon-El that's even further away from Superman, in a good way. Robinson excells at solo character driven writing(see Starman). Mon-El will wind up both more fleshed out and unique IMO. And I just don't think you could pick many better writers than Robinson for that type of task. It really is a bunch of good luck coming Mon-El's way that Robinson just happens to be available at the point in time DC is doing this with him. Mon-El will never again be thought of as a Superman clone or imitation or any sort of by the numbers typical superhero after Robinson gets done with him.


And let's not forget...he's doing something with Tellus too.

and...maybe Chameleon Boy? The solicitation mentioned that there is a spy among the Science Police....and someone being silhouetted in Omen and Origins recently that looks like Chameleon Boy's...(I am hoping for Cham than Xenofobe!!)

thanks for sharing, Gary... but that line-up makes me glad that I do not follow any of those books.

So, how many Legionners are in our own 21th century at the moment? I lost track of them: Star Man, Wildfire and his posse, but who else? And one of them gets LOST?

oohhh canete variant....

Wow, issue number 4 on R.E.B.E.L.S. and we have a fill-in team already! That was fast (not even Andy as cover artist!).

So, how many Legionners are in our own 21th century at the moment? I lost track of them: Star Man, Wildfire and his posse, but who else? And one of them gets LOST? ). They really do need to get back to that subplot.

In the 21st Century are Starman working as a gravedigger, Tellus trapped at Cadmus and listed as MIA by the Legion, Infectious Lass thrown into the time stream by Earth-Man and landed in the 21stC. Polar Boy/Dawnstar/Wildfire are in the 20th Century when Luthor was a boy.

Given that it's the Guardian and the Science Police, the rescue has to be of Tellus, the one Legionnaire the Guardian has met at least twice.

Why would Lori Lemaris be in the Phantom Zone?

Superman\'s Girl Friend, Lois Lane #33 (May 1962) - I don't have the issue, but I'm going to assume by the cover that Lana sends her there to remove her as a rival for Superman's affections.

hahahah phantom mermaid. oh god, comics.

Yeah, and it's St. Aubin, the guy's been sucking up some of the last Birds of Prey issues...

Ok, thanks for the answers.

Tellus, long time, no see. Checked my sources over at http://www.mykey3000.com/cosmicteams/legion/index.html. Accourding to them the current continuity ended arround Legion V.3#27. So, Tellus went missing with #30. Now he is found in our century. Oh dear, so much for streaming the continuity, I still find it all confusing.

Ah Infectius Lass, I forgot about him. This is the guy who changed gender in the classic Giffen-Annual? Haha, loved Stone Boy sticking face down in the soil at the end of that issue. This was real fun. And Tenzil is still my favourite.

Looking at the May solis: No Legion title. Or did I miss something? Oh dear.....

Shame on any Legion Worlder who hasn't read this Mon-El appearance. Lana is corrupted by a brooch made of metal that brings out the negative traits in the wearer (remember this is the Silver Age) and sends Lois and Lori into the phantom zone. Of course Superman sorts it all out.