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Issue Details

Issue #171
Published August 2001
Cover Price 2.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Eddie Berganza; Tom Palmer Jr. (Associate)
Notes Sequence number 30 for 2001. Our Worlds at War: Prelude to War!

Cover Details - "The Fatal Five"

Characters Superman; Fatal Five (Validus; Emerald Empress; Mano; The Persuader; Tharok)
Genre Superhero
Pencils Ed McGuinness
Inks Cam Smith
Colors Tanya Horie; Richard Horie
Notes Sequence number 30 for 2001. Our Worlds at War: Prelude to War!
Reprinted in Superman: Our Worlds at War (DC, 2002 series) #1; in Superman: Our Worlds at War - The Complete Edition (DC, 2006 series) #[nn]

22 page Superman story "Of Course, You Know, This Means...Warworld!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Emil Hamilton (not seen, only "heard"); Lex Luthor; Lena Luthor; The Fatal Five [Persuader; Mano; Emerald Empress; Validus; Tharok] (actually hard light constructions); Brainiac 13
Synopsis Superman investigates the reappearance of Pluto, but discovers it is actually Warworld. Meanwhile, Lena Luthor visits her father and delivers a message from Brainiac 13.
Genre superhero
Script Jeph Loeb
Pencils Ed McGuinness
Inks Cam Smith
Colors Tanya Horie; Richard Horie
Letters Richard Starkings
Notes Beginning of Our Worlds at War story. Main thread of story continues in Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #593.
Reprinted in Superman: Our Worlds at War (DC, 2002 series) #1; in Superman: Our Worlds at War (DC, 2002 series) #2 [one image and one other panel only]; in Superman: Our Worlds at War - The Complete Edition (DC, 2006 series) #[nn]