Dates
- Cover date
- December 1981
- On sale
- September 1, 1981
- Pages
- 40
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #282 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0709893067012
This edition’s page
Creators
pencils: Jim Aparo, Jim Janes, Curt Swaninks: Jim Aparo, Bruce Patterson, Vince Collettascript: Roy Thomas, Paul Levitzcolors: Gene D'Angeloletters: Ben Oda
Stories
- If Answers There Be... · 27 pages
Phantom Girl, Superboy, and Dawnstar find a comatose Ultra Boy suspended between dimensions. When they revive him he tells them how his consciousness created the Reflecto identity, then took over Superboy's mind for a period of time. Now with the help of Ultra Boy and Insect Queen, the Time Trapper is defeated.
Characters
Clark KentSuperboyLana LangImra ArdeenRokk KrinnSaturn GirlQuerl DoxGarth RanzzCosmic BoyBrainiac 5Lightning LadJo NahReep DaggleLar GandUltra BoyDirk MorgnaTinya WazzoChameleon BoySun BoyMon-ElJan ArrahPhantom GirlGim AllonElement LadColossal BoyDawnstarDrake BurroughsVal ArmorrKarate KidWildfire
Reprinted in
Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (2021)