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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published November 1996
Cover Price 1.95 USD; 2.75 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Dan Thorsland; Ali Morales (Assistant Editor)
Notes Actually first published as back cover to The Final Night Preview (DC, 1986 series) #nn.

Cover Details - "Week One: Armageddon"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Flash [Wally West]; Superman [Clark Kent]; Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Wonder Woman [Diana]; Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Stuart Immonen (signed)
Inks Jose Marzan, Jr. (signed)
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Notes Actually first published as back cover to The Final Night Preview (DC, 1986 series) #nn.
Reprinted in Final Night Preview, The (DC, 1996 series) #[nn]; in Final Night, The (DC, 1998 series) #[nn]

23 page Final Night story "Chapter One: Dusk"

Characters Dusk; Superman [Clark Kent]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Gates; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Spark; Brainiac 5; Inferno; Ultra Boy]; Maggie Sawyer; Dan Turpin; Robin [Tim Drake]; Jade; Obsidian; Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Impulse; Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Booster Gold [Michael Carter]; Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond]; The Flash [Wally West]; Zan; Jayna; The Ray [Ray Terrill]; Superboy; Big Barda; Mr. Miracle [Scott Free]; Takion; Dr. Polaris; Fire [Beatriz da Costa]; Icemaiden [Sigrid Nansen]; Warrior [Guy Gardner]; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Amazing Man [Will Everett III]; Maxima; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]; Wonder Woman [Diana]; Alpha Centurion; Phantom Stranger; Dr. Kitty Faulkner; Captain Atom [Nathaniel Adam]; Steel [John Henry Irons]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Jimmy Olsen; The Spectre; The Sun-Eater; Sentinel; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Lex Luthor; Contessa Erica Alexandra Del Portenza; The Sun-Eater
Synopsis Dusk alerts the superhero community to the danger of the Sun-Eater. One team goes with Mr. Miracle who plans to use a Boom Tube to teleport the Sun-Eater away. A second team of heat- and light-based heroes plans to decoy the Sun-Eater away from the Earth's sun. Both plans fail, and the Sun-Eater consumes the sun.
Genre Superhero
Script Karl Kesel
Pencils Stuart Immonen
Inks Jose Marzan, Jr.
Colors Lee Loughridge
Letters Gaspar Saladino [as Gaspar]
Notes In the revamped DC Universe, the Sun-Eater now attacks Earth a 1000 years earlier.
Reprinted in Final Night, The (DC, 1998 series) #[nn]

1 page text story "S.T.A.R.Com Emergency Information Center"

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Notes Information about what the Earth can expect as the sun goes out.