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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published June 2007
Cover Price 2.99 USD; 3.65 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Mark Chiarello; Tom Palmer, Jr. (Associate Editor)
Notes Issue actually released July 11, 2007, with issues cover-dated September. Character's name revealed in #11.

Cover Details

Characters Bridgewater
Genre Superhero
Pencils Tim Sale
Inks Tim Sale
Notes Issue actually released July 11, 2007, with issues cover-dated September. Character's name revealed in #11.

22 page Superman story "Kryptonite, Book Five"

Characters Anthony Gallo; Superman [Clark Kent]; Fieldstone; Lex Luthor; Jimmy Olsen; a Clark Kent robot; Perry White; Lois Lane; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Bridgewater
Synopsis While Jimmy takes Superman to Clark Kent's apartment to recuperate, Lex Luthor connects Superman's weakness with Gallo's casino. There, Gallo reveals to Lois his secret and she summons Jimmy. Superman visits Smallville and discusses his newfound vulnerability with his parents, then returns to meet with Gallo. Gallo tells Superman that he is actually an entity posessing Gallo who accompanied Superman on the trip from his home planet and can give him insight into his own origin if Superman will allow himself to be exposed to the kryptonite again. The moment that Superman is weakened by the kryptonite and unconscious, however, Luthor arrives.
Genre Superhero
Script Darwyn Cooke
Pencils Tim Sale
Inks Tim Sale
Colors Dave Stewart
Letters Richard Starkings
Notes This storyline concludes in #11. The name of the entity posessing Gallo, Bridgewater, is revealed in #11.