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Issue Details

Issue #5 / 508
Published February 2010
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 3.99 USD
Pages 44
Editing Sean Ryan
Notes Indicia reads: Adventure Comics #5/Adventure Comics #508 (Variant Cover).

Cover Details - "[Cover - A]"

Characters Superboy-Prime; Black Lantern Alexander Luthor; Superboy [Conner Kent] (inset)
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jerry Ordway (signed); Francis Manapul (inset)
Inks Jerry Ordway (signed); Francis Manapul (inset)
Colors Brian Buccellato
Letters Typeset
Notes Superboy inset taken from interior story. Cover bannered as part of the “Blackest Night” event. Cover is an homage to the cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC, 1985 series) #7 ("after Perez").

Cover Details - "[Cover - B]"

Characters Superboy-Prime; Black Lantern Alexander Luthor; Superboy [Conner Kent]; Lori; Krypto; Lex Luthor
Pencils Francis Manapul
Inks Francis Manapul
Colors Brian Buccellato
Letters Typeset
Notes Incentive cover shipped in 1:10 ratio to standard cover. Cover is an homage to the cover of Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #300. Superboy inset taken from interior story. Cover bannered as part of the “Blackest Night” event.

20 page Superboy-Prime story "He Primed Me, Part Two: Flame War"

Characters Superboy-Prime; Black Lantern Alexander Luthor; Black Lantern Ballistic; Black Lantern Bushido; Black Lantern Charaxes; Black Lantern Element Lad; Black Lantern Geist; Black Lantern Major Disaster; Black Lantern Nightblade; Black Lantern Razorsharp; Black Lantern Sun Boy; Laurie Lemmon; Superman (memory); Flash (memory); Impulse (memory); Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-Prime) [Brainiac 5; Ultra Boy] (memory); Risk (memory); Power Girl (memory)
Synopsis Realizing his destiny is controlled by the people who work at DC Comics, Superboy-Prime tries to leave his fight with the Black Lanterns and take out his frustrations on the DC employees. But Black Lantern Alexander Luthor transports the Black Lanterns and Superboy-Prime to Prime's basement to continue the fight. Prime tries to take possession of one of the Black Lantern rings, but it refuses to let him become a Black Lantern, exploding in a burst of light and leaving him alone in his basement remembering his love for Laurie. Just then, Laurie arrives and tells Clark that everything will be all right from now on.
Genre Superhero
Script Geoff Johns; Sterling Gates
Pencils Jerry Ordway
Inks Bob Wiacek; Jerry Ordway
Colors Brian Buccellato
Letters Ken Lopez
Notes Seen in the DC offices are Dan Didio, Simona Martore, Mike Carlin, Eddie Berganza, Adam Schlagman, and many others. All of the Black Lanterns other than Alexander Luthor are unidentified, as are the victims Superboy-Prime remembers. There is no explanation for why Legion corpses should exist in the 21st century.

10 page Superboy story "The Boy of Steel"

Characters Superboy [Conner Kent]; Krypto; Lori; Lex Luthor
Synopsis Superboy finds Lori vandalizing a doctor's office and also finds out a little bit more about Lori's life.
Genre Superhero
Script Geoff Johns
Pencils Francis Manapul
Inks Francis Manapul
Colors Brian Buccellato
Letters Steve Wands