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Orion#3
Cover: Walter Simonson

Orion #3

Aug 2000 · DC · 2.50 USD; 3.95 CAD
“For Purple Mountain Majesties...”

In "For Purple Mountain Majesties...", Orion burns with vengeance after the Suicide Jockeys assassinate Tigra, while Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion arrive on New Genesis to find its people obeying an eerie, unexplained directive from the Source. Written and illustrated by Walter Simonson, with additional art by Cliff Chiang and cover art by Simonson himself, this 2000 DC issue blends personal fury with cosmic mystery in a story that deepens the mythology of the New Gods.

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writer, artist, inker Walter Simonson · artist Cliff Chiang · colorist Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh · letterer John Workman · cover Walter Simonson

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writer, artist, inker Walter Simonson
letterer John Workman
cover pencils, inks Walter Simonson

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Darkseid's Suicide Jockeys kill Tigra and Orion vows revenge. Elsewhere, Jimmy and the Newsboy Legion travel to New Genesis, where the populace has received a strange command from the Source.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).