Volume: 48
Price: 1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD
Pages: 100
On-sale Date: 1983-04-12
Editing: Nicola Cuti (credited) (editor)
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Dream Girl -- Mystic or Monster?
(Table of Contents)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Ed Hannigan (signed as Hannigan)
Inks:
Klaus Janson (signed as Janson)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:C-422
Characters:
Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Star Boy; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Lightning Lad; Lightning Lass]
This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Adventure Comics
(Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

[Brickface and the Trowel]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Plastic Man / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Martin Pasko (credited)
Pencils:
Joe Staton (credited)
Inks:
Bob Smith (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Ben Oda (credited)
Editing:
Len Wein (credited) (original story)
  • Genre:superhero; humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Boy, that Plastic Man is somethin' else!
Characters:
Plastic Man; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Terry Cotta; Trowel [Mason Stucko]; Cindy Block; Brickface
Synopsis:
Plas and Woozy investigate the murder of Alonzo Van Rivett.
Reprints (1)

Part I: The Renegade Super-Hero!
(Table of Contents: 3)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Pencils:
John Forte (signed)
Inks:
John Forte (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Mort Weisinger (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Lightning Lad; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Element Lad; Colossal Boy (cameo); Lightning Lass (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo)]; Proty II
Synopsis:
Ultra Boy is revealed to be an escaped convict and flees the Legion.
Reprints (1)

Part II: The End of a Super-Traitor!
(Table of Contents: 4)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
John Forte (signed)
Inks:
John Forte (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Mort Weisinger (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Legion of Super-Heroes [Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Element Lad; Invisible Kid]; Proty II
Synopsis:
Ultra Boy's criminal past is revealed to be a ruse, so that he could infiltrate a pirate band.
Reprints (1)

The Human Hawks
(Table of Contents: 5)

Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Editing:
Wendell Crowley (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Dudley Wright
Synopsis:
Captain Marvel must rescue explorer Dudley Wright from the Hawkmen, a band of winged humans in the Himalayas.
Reprints (1)

The Parchment of Power Perilous
(Table of Contents: 6)

The Spectre / comic story / 22 pages

Script:
Steve Skeates (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Murphy Anderson (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Julius Schwartz (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Narkran; Carstagg Mob
Synopsis:
The Spectre carelessly injures a human, and is set up to be punished in later stories.
Reprints (1)

Can This Be Death?..
(Table of Contents: 7)

Aquaman / comic story / 16 pages

Script:
Steve Skeates (credited)
Pencils:
Jim Aparo (credited)
Inks:
Jim Aparo (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Dick Giordano (credited) (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera; Ocean Master
Synopsis:
The Ocean Master tries to warn Aquaman just before the Sea King is teleported to an alien world.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Aparo draws panel on pg 11 using most of the names of DC staffers as part of the background.

Zatanna, the Magician
(Table of Contents: 8)

Zatanna / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Len Wein (credited)
Pencils:
Gray Morrow (credited)
Inks:
Gray Morrow (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Joe Orlando (credited) (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Zatanna; Zatara; Jeff Sloane; Justice League of America [Hawkman; Elongated Man; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Batman] (all in cameo flashback)
Synopsis:
An unseen villain gains control of Zatara and forces him to send Zatanna and Jeff into another dimension.
Reprints (1)

Part I: The Menace of Dream Girl!
(Table of Contents: 9)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Pencils:
John Forte (credited)
Inks:
John Forte (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Mort Weisinger (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Triplicate Girl; Bouncing Boy; Dream Girl (joins)]; Rann Antar (applicant)
Synopsis:
Dream Girl joins, causes Lightning Lass to lose her powers, and has Lightning Lass and Triplicate Girl expelled.
Reprints (1)

Part II: The Doom of the Legion!
(Table of Contents: 10)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
Editing:
Mort Weisinger (original story)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl (leaves); Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Lightning Lass [becomes Light Lass]; Chameleon Boy (cameo)]
Synopsis:
Dream Girl has more Legionnaires expelled, in order to prevent her prediction of their deaths. The prediction proves false, Dream Girl leaves and the others are reinstated. She has also altered Lightning Lass's powers to the ability to make things super-light.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 11)

The Story Behind the Stories / text article / 1 page

Script:
Paul Levitz (credited)
Letters:
typeset
Synopsis:
Paul Levitz discusses the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue.

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 12)

Aquaman; Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Plastic Man; The Spectre; Zatanna / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Dream Girl -- Mystic or Monster?
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  2. Adventure Comics
  3. [Brickface and the Trowel]
    Plastic Man
  4. Part I: The Renegade Super-Hero!
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  5. Part II: The End of a Super-Traitor!
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  6. The Human Hawks
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!
  7. The Parchment of Power Perilous
    The Spectre
  8. Can This Be Death?..
    Aquaman
  9. Zatanna, the Magician
    Zatanna
  10. Part I: The Menace of Dream Girl!
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  11. Part II: The Doom of the Legion!
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  12. [no title indexed]
    The Story Behind the Stories
  13. [no title indexed]
    Aquaman; Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Plastic Man; The Spectre; Zatanna
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