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Issue Details

Issue #826
Published June 2005
Cover Price 2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Eddie Berganza; Tom Palmer Jr. (associate)
Notes This issue went on sale 2005-04-13 (1 week late).

Cover Details

Characters Superman; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Ian Churchill
Inks Norm Rapmund
Colors Dave Stewart
Letters typeset
Notes This issue went on sale 2005-04-13 (1 week late).
Reprinted in Day of Vengeance (DC, 2005 series) #nn ([November] 2005) [minus all text, the Superman inset, and the UPC].

22 page Superman story "Lightning Strikes Twice"

Characters Superman; Bruce Gordon (cameo); Shazam; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Kenny Rip (cameo, dies); David Tellis (cameo, dies); Malcolm Diamond (cameo, dies); Commissioner Bill Henderson (cameo); Dr. Jeanine Tracey; Lois Lane; Dennis Kapri (cameo); Eclipso
Synopsis Bruce Gordon is tracking something. Captain Marvel is warned by Shazam that the end is coming. Several people are killing themselves, with anger involved. Superman gets involved with the last one, as does a bystander who works at STAR Labs. She later gets angry herself, steals a LexCorp battle suit from the Labs, does some rampaging, and waits for Superman. Once he appears, she reveals she has been possessed by Eclipso.
Genre Superhero
Script Judd Winick
Pencils Ian Churchill
Inks Norm Rapmund
Colors Beth Sotelo
Letters Richard Starkings
Notes Story continues in Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #639 (June, 2005).
Reprinted in Day of Vengeance (DC, 2005 series) #nn ([November] 2005) [minus the credits and the To Be Continued blurb].

1 page DC In Demand promo (ad from the publisher) "04.05"

Notes Ads for Adventures of Superman #639, DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy #1, Action Comics #826, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel #2, and Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #1. Appears on page 32 in this issue.

12 page advertisement "Ads"

Notes Total of 10 one-page and 1 two-page ads for: Campbell's SouperStar Island (sweepstakes, Campbell's), Big League Chew (bubble gum), Yoshi Touch & Go (video game, Nintendo), Scooby-Doo Berry Bones (cereal, Kellogg's, 2 pages), Neopets Curse of Maraqua (card game, Wizards of the Coast, Pokemon Dash (video game, Nintendo), The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (TV, Disney Channel), Teen Titans Volume 2: Switched (DVD, Warner Bros.), Digimon 4: Digimon World (video game, Bandai), Marshmallow Mania Pebbles (cereal, Kellogg's), and Mario Party Advance (video game, Nintendo). Appear in various places in this issue.