Dates
- Cover date
- October 1997
- On sale
- August 6, 1997
- In stores
- August 6, 1997
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #72 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
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Barcode 07098930801510
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Story arc: Genesis
This is part 5 of 23. 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
- Superman #128
- Adventures of Superman #551
- Aquaman (1994) #37
- Genesis (1997) #3
- Resurrection Man #6
- Young Heroes in Love (1997) #5
- Genesis (1997) #4
- Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #97
- Robin (1993) #46
- The Spectre (1992) #58
- Wonder Woman #126
- Xero (1997) #6
- DC Finest: Supergirl: Body & Soul (2025) #nn
Creators
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.
Publisher’s description
GENESIS wreaks havoc on Superman's new powers, but before it does, he discovers an ability he didn't know he had. When captured by the sinister cyber-villains known as the Mainframe, his energy-based powers allow them to open "windows" into other dimensions! All these strange lands are beyond our plane, but the evil Baud and her pals have access to all of them now that they've got the Man Beyond Tomorrow! Plus…meet the Bibbo/Scorn team!