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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published August 2000
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 2.50 USD
Pages 40
Editing Joey Cavalieri

Cover Details - "Town Without Pity!"

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

16 page Orion story "For Purple Mountain Majesties..."

Characters Orion; Tigra; Darkseid; Desaad; Newsboy Legion [Scrapper; Gabby; Big Words; Tommy; Flip; Famous Bobbie]; Jimmy Olsen; Takion
Synopsis Darkseid's Suicide Jockeys kill Tigra and Orion vows revenge. Elsewhere, Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion travel to New Genesis, where the populace has received a strange command from 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]

6 page Tales of the New Gods story "Nativity"

Characters Tigra; Darkseid; Orion
Synopsis On the day of Orion's birth, Darkseid takes the child from Tigra and banishes her.
Genre superhero
Script Walter Simonson
Pencils Frank Miller
Inks Frank Miller
Colors Sherilyn van Valkenburgh
Letters John Workman
Reprinted in Orion: The Gates of Apokolips (DC, 2001 series) #[nn]

1 page text article "An Incomplete History of the New Gods"

Synopsis publication and storyline history of Jack Kirby's New Gods
Genre superhero
Script Walter Simonson
Letters typeset