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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published February-March 1971
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 36
Editing Jack Kirby

Cover Details - "Orion Fights for Earth!"

Characters Orion
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Don Heck
Reprinted in New Gods (DC, 1984 series) #1 (June 1984); in Jack Kirby's New Gods (DC, 1997 series) #nn (1997); in Millennium Edition: New Gods 1 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (June 2000); in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)

23 page New Gods story "Orion Fights for Earth!"

Characters Orion (intro, first appearance); Lightray (intro); Metron (intro); Highfather [Izaya the Inheritor] (intro); Darkseid; Kalibak (intro); Victor Lanza (intro); Claudia Shane (intro); Dave Lincoln (intro); Harvey Lockman (intro); The "Source" (intro); New Genesis (intro); Apokolips (intro)
Synopsis Orion frees Lanza, Shane, Lincoln, and Lockman from Darkseid.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters John Costanza
Notes Fourth appearance of Darkseid in cameo; three weeks after FOREVER PEOPLE #1.
Reprinted in New Gods (DC, 1984 series) #1 (June 1984); in Jack Kirby's New Gods (DC, 1997 series) #nn (1997); in Millennium Edition: New Gods 1 (DC, 2000 series) #[nn] (June 2000); in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)

1 page text article "A Visit with Jack Kirby"

Script Marv Wolfman
Letters typeset