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Issue: The Man of Steel #[nn]
Publication Date: February 1987
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Variant: First Printing
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/03/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN: 0930289285
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $17.50 CAD
$12.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 16 (9 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Book design by Keith Wilson.

On-sale date from DC Releases #45, confirmed from copyright registration.

Also published in 1987 by Ballantine Books with a different cover under the title Superman: The Man of Steel.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; Newsprint interiors
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #1 [Standard Cover - Direct] published October 1986
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #1 [Special Collector's Edition Cover] published October 1986
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #2 [Direct] published October 1986
was Introducing -- Lois Lane! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #3 [Direct] published November 1986
was Face-to-Face with the Dark Knight! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #4 [Direct] published November 1986
was Lex Luthor Strikes! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #5 [Direct] published December 1986
was The Beast Within! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagThe Man of Steel #6 [Direct] published December 1986
was Return to Smallville [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Man of Steel

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Disclose Notes: Publication indicia page with an image of the back of Superman's cape as background.
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First Line: The new Superman has many fathers and mothers...
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Disclose Notes: Dedication by John Byrne.
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Why Superman? Why Today?

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Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
First Line: I have often been asked: Why do you write science fiction?
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Disclose Notes: Foreword by Ray Bradbury
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Superman: A Personal View

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Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Magpie; Lex Luthor; Bizarro; Lana Lang; Jor-El
First Line: Superman began as a television series starring George Reeves.
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Disclose Notes: Includes small reproductions of the 7 covers of the original series.
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Book One - Prologue: From Out the Green Dawn...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jor-El (post-Crisis intro); Lara (post-Crisis intro); Kelex (intro); Kelor; Kal-El (as baby, post-Crisis intro)
Synopsis: Lara and Jor-El discuss their unborn son, and how Jor-El intends to protect him. As Krypton begins its final eruptions, Jor-El sends Kal-El to Earth.
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Job Number: G-2725
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Chapter One: The Secret

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Clark Kent [Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent (post-Crisis intro); Martha Kent (post-Crisis intro); Lana Lang (post-Crisis intro)
Synopsis: Clark Kent is now a star football player, helped by additional strength. But his foster father reveals that he is adopted and is an alien from another planet.
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Chapter Two: The Exposure

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Clark Kent [Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lois Lane (post-Crisis intro)
Synopsis: After helping out secretly for years, Clark Kent is forced into doing his first public super-deed, saving the space-plane Constitution. In doing so, he has his first meeting with Lois Lane.
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Epilogue: The Super-Hero

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
Synopsis: The Kents design and make a costume for Clark, and come up with a way for him to look different in both identities as he adopts his Superman identity.
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Book Two - The Story of the Century

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Lex Luthor; Mr. Guthrie
Synopsis: Superman meets Lois and Clark gets a job at the Daily Planet.
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Job Number: G-2726
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Book Three - One Night in Gotham City...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Henry Jarrell (dies); VILLAINS: Magpie [Margaret Pye]; Bull Carter (dies)
Synopsis: Superman comes to Gotham City to arrest the outlaw Batman, interrupting Batman's pursuit of the criminal Magpie. While pursuing the villain together, Superman comes to realize that Gotham City is very different from Metropolis and needs a different type of hero.
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Book Four - Enemy Mine...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Mayor Frank Berkowitz; Yvette; Lex Luthor
Synopsis: Luthor allows a group of terrorists to attack his luxury liner so he can meet Superman and put him on his payroll. But Superman refuses to be bought and Luthor is jailed for reckless endangerment. In response Luthor vows revenge on the Man of Steel.
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Disclose Notes: Superman's first encounter with Lex Luthor (post-Crisis).
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Book Five - The Mirror, Crack'd...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Lucy Lane; Jimmy Olsen; VILLAINS: Lex Luthor; Bizarro (dies); Dr. Teng
Synopsis: Lex tries to create a clone of Superman, resulting in the creation of Bizarro.
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Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: First post-Crisis Bizarro.
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Book Six - The Haunting

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Jor-El (hologram); Lara (hologram); Lois Lane (cameo)
Synopsis: On a trip home to Smallville, Superman discovers the spaceship that brought him to Earth is missing. But at the same time he triggers a computer program that reveals to him his Kryptonian heritage and places all of Krypton's knowledge in his mind. He also discovers what revealing his powers to Lana years ago did to her and decides he wants to actively pursue a life with Lois.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Short biographies of John Byrne and Dick Giordano.

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