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Issue Details

Issue #22 [DM]
Published June 1993
Cover Price 1.95 USD; 2.50 CAD
Pages 44
Editing Mike Carlin; Jennifer Frank (assistant)
Notes 1993 Triangle #13. This is the direct market edition die-cut cover.

Cover Details - "Reign of the Supermen! The Man of Steel is Back!"

Characters Steel [John Henry Irons]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jon Bogdanove
Inks Dennis Janke
Colors Dennis Janke
Notes 1993 Triangle #13. This is the direct market edition die-cut cover.

22 page Steel; Superman story "Steel [Reign of the Supermen, Part 2]"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (flashback); Steel [John Henry Irons; also as Henry Johnson]; Lois Lane; Jeb Friedman; Keith Robert Parks; Myra; Zoid (first appearance; death); Jonathan Kent; Rosie Kurtz (first appearance); White Rabbit [Dr. Angora Lapin] (villain); Lex Luthor (villain); Sydney Happersen (villain); Dutch (villain); Rock (villain); C & H (villain); Mucus (villain; death); Doomsday (flashback; villain)
Synopsis When Henry Johnson, aka John Henry Irons, finds out that a gun he designed was used to kill a neighborhood kid, he builds a suit of steel to use to catch the criminals.
Genre Superhero
Script Louise Simonson
Pencils Jon Bogdanove
Inks Dennis Janke
Colors Glenn Whitmore
Letters Bill Oakley
Notes Story continued from ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #687 and story continues in SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #78.

2 page Steel illustration "The Man of Steel"

Characters Steel [John Henry Irons]; Lois Lane
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jon Bogdanove (signed)
Inks Dennis Janke (signed)
Colors Dennis Janke ?
Notes Poster is in middle of comic book.

2 page Tempered Steel letters page "Tempered Steel"

Script Jennifer Frank
Letters typeset
Notes Letters from readers - Joseph P. Menta, Jr., David Scott, Jeff Mitchell, Rol Hirst, Matthew Schuermann, R. Kevin Doyle and Mark Lucas - and responses from Jennifer Frank.

1 page Steel; Superman promo (ad from the publisher) "Cover - Superman: The Man of Steel #23"

Characters Steel [John Henry Irons]; Superboy
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jon Bogdanove (signed)
Inks Dennis Janke (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes This promo is on the inside back cover, is in black and white and is only in the direct edition.

1 page Superman promo (ad from the publisher) "Reign of the Supermen!"

Characters Last Son of Krypton [as Superman]; Superboy [as Superman]; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jackson Guice; Tom Grummett; Dan Jurgens
Inks Jackson Guice; Doug Hazlewood; Brett Breeding
Colors Glenn Whitmore
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover promotion of the other 3 "Reign of the Supermen!" issues for June 1993, featuring the interior portion of the die-cut direct edition covers for ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #687 [DM], ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #501 [DM] and SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #78 [DM].