Primal Force | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Ongoing while in publication |
Publication date | October 1994 – December 1995 |
No. of issues | 15 |
Creative team | |
Created by | Steven Seagle Ken Hooper |
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