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Issue Details

Issue #250
Published April 1979
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jack C. Harris
Notes average sales per issue previous year - 141,277

Cover Details

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Shadow Lass; Brainiac 5; Chameleon Boy]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Staton (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)
Notes cover background composed of old Superboy covers

13 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "This is the Day the Universe Dies!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Chameleon Boy; Wildfire; Brainiac 5; Colossal Boy; Dawnstar; Dream Girl; Element Lad; Karate Kid; Lightning Lad; Mon-El; Princess Projectra; Saturn Girl; Shadow Lass; Shrinking Violet; Star Boy; Sun Boy; Timber Wolf; Tyroc; Ultra Boy]; Omega
Genre superhero
Script Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo] (plot); Paul Levitz (script)
Pencils Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo] (layouts); Dave Hunt (finished art)
Inks Dave Hunt
Colors Gene D'Angelo
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Pages 1-13 of a 19 page story. Story originally intended for a Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes Spectacular in the DC Special Series. Reworking for appearance here caused Jim Starlin to request having his name taken off.

1 page Wonder Woman; Hostess advertisement "The Golden Treasure"

Characters Wonder Woman; unnamed criminals
Synopsis Wonder Woman is stunned in an ambush, but the Hostess Twinkies she has with her distract the criminals long enough for her to recover and capture them.
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Vince Colletta
Notes Hostess Twinkies ad.

6 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "This is the Day the Universe Dies!, Chapter 2: Madman in Our Midst!"

Genre superhero
Script Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo] (story); Paul Levitz (words)
Pencils Jim Starlin [as Steve Apollo] (layouts); David Hunt (finished art)
Inks David Hunt
Colors Gene D'Angelo
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Pages 14-19 of a 19 page story