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Issue Details

Issue #832
Published December 2005
Cover Price 2.50 USD; 3.50 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Eddie Berganza; Jeanine Schaefer (associate)
Notes This issue went on sale 2005-10-12.

Cover Details - "The Devil You Know"

Characters Superman; Spectre; Satanus
Genre Superhero
Pencils Dan Jurgens (signed)
Inks Wayne Faucher (signed)
Colors Guy Major
Notes This issue went on sale 2005-10-12.
Reprinted in Superman: Strange Attractors (DC, 2006 series) #nn [minus all text and the UPC]

22 page Superman story "Old Ghosts"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Spectre [hostless]; Willis; Satanus [Colin Thornton]; Sam Lane (ghost)
Synopsis It's Halloween night, and some kids who are trick or treating encounter some real ghosts. Lois and Willis observe as a storm starts raging, and try to get the story. Superman investigates the storm, and encounters the Spectre. Colin Thornton realizes that the Spectre is coming for him, and broadcasts a spell to have spirits rise to his defense. Lightning almost hits the van with Lois and Willis; he falls out while the van crashes off of a bridge, injuring and pinning Lois. Superman confronts Thornton, who reveals himself to be Satanus. Superman volunteers his soul to help Satanus if Satanus will release all the innocent people he has enslaved. Sam Lane's ghost appears and directs away all the other ghosts from Lois. They have a heart-to-heart talk while awaiting rescue. Meanwhile, Satanus cannot absorb Superman's soul, as it was offered up selflessly. The Spectre comes, immobilizes Superman, and crushes Satanus, apparently destroying him. Sam leaves Lois, the Spectre disappears, the storm ends, the ghosts disappear, and Superman rescues Lois. But, watching from a distance is Sam Lane, who apparently is not a ghost after all.
Genre Superhero
Script Dan Abnett; Andy Lanning
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Nelson DeCastro [as Nelson]
Colors Guy Major
Letters Rob Leigh
Notes Sam Lane indeed turns up alive in 2008, starting in Superman (DC, 2006 series) #678.
Reprinted in Superman: Strange Attractors (DC, 2006 series) #nn [minus the title, credits, and the "End" on the last page]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "DC in Demand 10.05"

Notes Ads for next issue, Hard Time: Season Two, and Infinite Crisis #1. Appears on page 34 in this issue.

12 page advertisement "Ads"

Notes Total of 10 one-page and 1 two-page ads for: Hubba Bubba Max (gum, Wrigley's), The Nightmare Before Christmas Oogie's Revenge (game, Nightmare), Game Boy micro (game unit), ZatchBell Mamodo Battles (game, Ban Dai), Batman Begins Batmobile (toy, Mattel), Marvel Nemesis (game, Electronic Arts, 2 pages), "The Lake of Souls" Cirque Du Freak book 10 (book, Little, Brown and Company), Batman Begins (DVD, WB), got milk? with Donovan McNabb (milk), Oxy (acne pads, Mentholatum Company), and The Cranium Big Book of Outrageous Fun (book, LB Kids). Appear in various places in this issue.