Encounter with a Dark Avenger! / Death Ransom! / The Blood of the Lamb! / The Last Hideout / Return of the River Rat! / The De-volver! / Testing of a Hero! / A Plague of Monsters / Lightning Strikes Out! / Short-Circuit / Oil, Oil... Nowhere! / Explosion of the Soul! / Animals
Publisher
DC Comics
Cover date
March 2018
On sale
Jan 31, 2018
Cover price
$19.99
Pages
188
Key issue
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ISBN 9781401275464
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Credits
Writers
Denny O'Neil, Gerry Conway, Martin Pasko, Paul Kupperberg, J. M. DeMatteis
Pencillers
Dick Giordano, Dick Dillin, George Tuska, Joe Staton, Rich Buckler, Romeo Tanghal, Marshall Rogers, Michael Netzer, Pat Broderick, Gérald Forton
Black Lightning stops a robbery on a subway train as it travels through Suicide Slum but causes one of the robbers to inadvertently shoot and kill another passenger, Trina. This angers Trina's boyfriend, Hugh Bryant, who is also one of Jefferson Pierce's students. Hugh, actually an alien trapped on earth for millions of years, "devolves" into his true form as an energy creature. Black Lightning and Superman subdue the creature and help him finally leave the planet.
Dick Giordano, Frank Chiaramonte, Bob Smith, Romeo Tanghal, Vince Colletta, Frank McLaughlin, Gérald Forton
Colorists
Jerry Serpe, Doug Klein, Bob LeRose, Adrienne Roy, Gene D'Angelo
Letterers
Ben Oda, Shelly Leferman, Albert DeGuzman, Todd Klein, Milt Snapinn
Covers
Jim Aparo, Ross Andru, Dick Giordano, Dick Dillin, Neal Adams, Joe Staton
Cover colors
Allen Passalaqua, Neal Adams, Tatjana Wood
Cover letters
Gaspar Saladino, Todd Klein
Others
Ross Andru, Jack C. Harris, Julius Schwartz, Paul Levitz, Jeb Woodard, Paul Santos
Characters
Jonathan Davis· 1st appearance
The Steel Warriors· 1st appearance
"Fatboy" Carter (introduction
Aquaman· Cameo
Batman
Benny Zaff
Big Bart Toohey
Black Canary· Cameo
Black Lightning
Commissioner James Gordon
Duke Street Kings
Elongated Man
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Hugh Bryant
Ice
Inspector Henderson
Inspector William Henderson
Jacques Cravin
Jean Loring Palmer· Cameo
Jerry Haslip
Jimmy Olsen
Justice League of America
Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent
Kal-El]
Leon
Lincoln Trask
Lois Lane
Lynn Stewart
Mama Mambu
Mohawk Shuck
Red Tornado· Cameo
Senator Hargrave
Simon Nast
Slime Killer
Superman
Superman [Clark Kent
Tabitha Katt
The 100
The Atom· Cameo
The Flash
The Regulator
Tobias Whale
Traya· Cameo
Trina
villain)
Willie Carroll (introduction
Willie Tyler
Wonder Woman
Zatanna
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