Story: "In the Beginning!" (23 Pages)

Credits:

Louise Simonson (plot, script)
Chris Batista (pencils)
Rich Faber (inks)
Pat Brosseau (letters)
Gina Going (colors)
Frank Pittarese (edits)

Feature Character:

Steel (last in Zero Hour: Crisis In Time! #0; also in flashback to childhood and just after parents death)

Supporting Characters:

Bess Irons
Butter Irons (both also in flashback preceding issue #1)
Tyke Irons
Jamahl Irons
Shauna Beryl
Amanda Summers Quick
Rosie Kurtz (last in Superman: The Man of Steel #27)

Villains:

Hazard II (next in issue #18)
Shellshock III
Split
Hardsell
Mainline (first appearance of both; members of Hazard's Black Ops; latter four next in issue #19)
White Rabbit (last in Superman: The Man of Steel #24; next in issue #14)
Jitter
Default (first appearance of both; two members of White Rabbit's gang; both next in issue #14)
Alter (Benjamin Carrol, born Adam Kroft; first appearance; a police detective of the homicide division)

Other Characters:

Senator Sarah Jane Weaver (first appearance)
Senator Stanley (first appearance; dies)
Officer Johnson
Frankie (first appearance of both)
John Henry (in flashback)