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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1985
Cover Price 1.25 USD; 1.60 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages 52
Editing Karen Berger

Cover Details

Characters Legion of Substitute Heroes [Fire Lad; Infectious Lass; Porcupine Pete; Chlorophyll Kid; Stone Boy; Polar Boy; Color Kid]
Genre superhero; humor
Pencils Keith Giffen (signed)
Inks Karl Kesel (signed)
Letters typeset

38 page Legion of Substitute Heroes story "You Can't Keep a Good Villain Down"

Characters Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Polar Boy; Chlorophyll Kid; Color Kid; Fire Lad; Stone Boy; Infectious Lass; Porcupine Pete; Night Girl (cameo, flashback)]; Proty; Matter-Eater Lad; Gigi Cusimano; Tusker; Eyeful Ethel; Pulsar Stargrave; Computo (cameo)
Genre superhero; humor
Script Keith Giffen (plot); Paul Levitz (plot; script)
Pencils Keith Giffen
Inks Karl Kesel
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters John Costanza

1 page Legion of Substitute Heroes illustration "Substitute Heroes Clubhouse Blueprint"

Characters Legion of Substitute Heroes [Fire Lad; Infectious Lass; Porcupine Pete; Chlorophyll Kid; Stone Boy; Polar Boy; Color Kid]
Genre superhero; humor
Pencils Keith Giffen
Inks Karl Kesel

1 page Legion of Substitute Heroes text article "But Seriously, Folks ..."

Script Paul Levitz
Pencils Keith Giffen
Inks Karl Kesel
Letters typeset