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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published September 2000
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 2.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Joey Cavalieri

Cover Details - "The Unexpected Return of the Billion Dollar Man!"

Characters Orion; Billion Dollar Bates
Genre superhero
Pencils Walter Simonson
Inks Walter Simonson
Colors Sherilyn van Valkenburgh ?
Letters John Workman ?

17 page Orion story "Above the Fruited Plain..."

Characters Orion; Darkseid; Desaad; Takion; Kalibak; Billion Dollar Bates; Lightray; Newsboy Legion [Tommy; Big Words; Flip; Gabby; Scrapper; Famous Bobbie]; Jimmy Olsen; Kanto; Forever People [Mark Moonrider; Beautiful Dreamer; Serafin; Big Bear; Vykin] (cameo flashback)
Synopsis Orion attacks Darkseid's Nebraska location but Darkseid and Desaad escape. The Newsboy Legion is challenged by Kanto, Darkseid's personal assassin, and the people of New Genesis travel to Apokolips at the command of the Source.
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]

5 page Tales of the New Gods story "Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down..."

Characters Lightray; Lady Tatheta
Synopsis Lightray tries to discover if Tigra's story of Orion's parentage is true.
Genre superhero
Script Walter Simonson
Pencils Dave Gibbons
Inks Dave Gibbons
Colors Sherilyn van Valkenburgh
Letters John Workman
Editing Joey Cavalieri

1 page Source Material letters page

Script Walter Simonson
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by John Webster; Maria Celestino; Marcelo S. (who also submitted the letter column name).