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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published June 2000
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 2.50 USD; 3.95 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Joey Cavalieri
Notes Series logo designed by Alex Jay [credited in the letter column of issue #7].

Cover Details

Characters Orion; Darkseid; Tigra
Genre superhero
Pencils Walter Simonson
Inks Walter Simonson
Colors Sherilyn van Valkenburgh ?
Letters John Workman ?
Reprinted in Orion: The Gates of Apokolips (DC, 2001 series) #[nn]

22 page Orion story "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies..."

Characters Orion; Daniel "Terrible" Turpin; Lightray; Tigra; Highfather; Justeen; Darkseid; Desaad; Kalibak
Synopsis Orion is reeling from his mother's revelation that he is not the son of Darkseid after all, and he flies to Apokolips to find Darkseid. However, Darkseid is on Earth with Desaad where they are conducting a deadly experiment in a small Nebraska town.
Genre superhero
Script Walter Simonson
Pencils Walter Simonson; Cliff Chiang (backgrounds)
Inks Walter Simonson
Colors Sherilyn van Valkenburgh
Letters John Workman
Reprinted in Orion: The Gates of Apokolips (DC, 2001 series) #[nn]

1 page text article "The Fourth World, Jack Kirby, and Me"

Synopsis Simonson writes about his early exposure to Kirby's Fourth World thirty years earlier and his desire to build upon it in the present day.
Script Walter Simonson
Letters typeset