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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published April-May 1971
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jack Kirby (Editor); Carmine Infantino (Editorial Director)

Cover Details - "O'Deadly Darkseid!"

Characters Orion; Darkseid; Desaad
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Jack Kirby (signed)
Reprinted in New Gods (DC, 1984 series) #1 (June 1984); in Jack Kirby's New Gods (DC, 1997 series) #nn (1997); in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)

22 page New Gods story "O'Deadly Darkseid"

Characters Orion; Lightray; Izaya [as High Father]; Darkseid; Desaad; Mantis; Victor Lanza; Claudia Shane; Harvey Lockman; Dave Lincoln; Brola; The Deep Six (intro)
Synopsis Orion explains the nature of the war against Darkseid to Lanza, Shane, Lincoln, and Lockman.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters John Costanza
Notes Second full appearance of Darkseid.
Reprinted in New Gods (DC, 1984 series) #1 (June 1984); in Jack Kirby's New Gods (DC, 1997 series) #nn (1997); in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([June] 2007)

1 page text article "To and From the Source"

Script Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters typeset