CATALOG RECORD

52 #3

DC · Series began 2006 · July 2006

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Dates

Cover date: July 2006
On sale: May 24, 2006
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

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Barcode 76194125243800311
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Newsstand edition

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A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07098931022303
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Creators

pencils: J. G. Jones, Keith Giffen, Joe Bennett, Dan Jurgens, Art Thibertinks: J. G. Jones, Ruy José, Art Thibertcolors: Alex Sinclair, Jeromy Cox, Guy Majorscript: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, Dan DiDio, Dan Jurgensletters: Pat Brosseau, Nick Napolitanoediting: Eddie Berganza, Ivan Cohen, Jeanine Schaefer

Stories

New World Order · 20 pages
Week three opens with the Gotham PD discovering the body of Alex Luthor, altered to look like Lex. Power Girl is warned out of Kahndaq air space by Black Adam as she chases Terra Man. Steel puts his parental duties on hold as S.T.A.R. Labs contacts him about GCPD's discovery. Booster has an endorsement taken out from under him. Lex resurfaces in full spin control mode. Black Adam rebuffs advances by Intergang and shows the world how he believes heroes should act, in his own violent way.
History of the DCU: Part 2 · 4 pages
Covers the time frame from the first Earth-1/Earth-2 crossover up to Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Reprinted in

52 (2007), The 52 Omnibus (2012), 52 (2016), Black Adam: Rise and Fall of an Empire (2022)