Dates
- Cover date
- October 1997
- On sale
- August 6, 1997
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #72 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07098930801510
This edition’s page
Story arc: Genesis
This is part 5 of 20. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Genesis (1997) #1
- Green Lantern (1990) #91
- Starman (1994) #35
- Steel (1994) #43
- Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #72
- The Power of SHAZAM! (1995) #31
- Genesis (1997) #2
- Impulse (1995) #30
- Jack Kirby's Fourth World (1997) #8
- Supergirl (1996) #14
- Adventures of Superman #551
- Aquaman (1994) #37
- Genesis (1997) #3
- Young Heroes in Love (1997) #5
- Genesis (1997) #4
- Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #97
- Robin (1993) #46
- The Spectre (1992) #58
- Xero (1997) #6
- DC Finest: Supergirl: Body & Soul (2025) #nn
Creators
pencils: Jon Bogdanove, Scot Eaton, Kieron Dwyerinks: Dennis Janke, Jimmy Palmiotti, Hilary Bartacolors: Patrick Martin, Digital Chameleon, Glenn Whitmoreletters: Todd Klein, Ken Lopezscript: Louise Simonson, Mike McAvennie
Stories
- Altered States · 22 pages
Mainframe's members are creating chaos in Metropolis and Superman's recent transformation makes it difficult for him to defeat them. The capture him and Override experiments on him to discover a means of interdimensional travel. Elsewhere, villains escape from STAR Labs with enhanced superpowers, a harbinger of the coming effects of the Genesis event.