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Issue Details

Issue #248
Published February 1979
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jack C. Harris

Cover Details - "Beneath the Streets Lurks Death!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Shadow Lass]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Staton (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)

17 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Beneath the Streets Lurks ... Death!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Colossal Boy (cameo); Light Lass (cameo); Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy; Shadow Lass; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Mon-El; Brainiac 5]; R.J. Brande
Genre superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Joe Staton
Inks David Hunt
Colors Gene D'Angelo
Letters Ben Oda

1 page The Penguin; Hostess advertisement "Penguins on Parade"

Characters The Penguin; Gotham City police officers
Synopsis The Penguin distracts people with marching penguin puppets while stealing an antique sword, but is himself distracted by Hostess Fruit Pies planted by the police.
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Vince Colletta
Notes Ad for Hostess Fruit Pies.

Half page Hembeck! cartoon "Batman, Superman, The Flash -- all my JLA pals have such classy names!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
Genre satire
Script Fred Hembeck
Pencils Fred Hembeck
Inks Fred Hembeck

Half page Answer Man text article

Script Bob Rozakis
Letters typeset
Notes DC questions, part of Daily Planet page