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Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	June-July 1972
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Jack Kirby

Cover Details - "The Bug!"

Characters	Lightray; Orion
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Mike Royer
Reprinted	in New Gods (DC, 1984 series) #5; in Jack Kirby's New Gods (DC, 1997 series) #nn; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #3

26 page New Gods story "The Bug!"

Characters	Forager (intro); Orion; Lightray; Mantis; Prime One; Eve Donner; Dave Lincoln; Queen Widow; Inspector Turpin
Synopsis	Forager is given the task of searching out Orion and help him stop Mantis from mobilizing all the bugs into a large army.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Mike Royer
Letters	Mike Royer
Reprinted	in Mighty Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #114; in New Gods (DC, 1984 series) #5; in Jack Kirby's New Gods (DC, 1997 series) #nn; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #3

Cover Details - "Adventure Comics No. 78"

Characters	Manhunter
Script	Whitney Ellsworth
Pencils	Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Reprinted	from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #78 (September 1942)

9 page Manhunter story "The Lady and the Tiger"

Characters	Manhunter
Genre	superhero
Script	Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Pencils	Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
Letters	Howard Ferguson
Reprinted	from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #78 (September 1942)

1 page To and From the Source letters page

Script	Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Includes a letter from Bob Rozakis.