Volume: 2
Price: 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1982-01-05
Editing: Dick Giordano (managing editor); Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
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[Afternoon of the Assassins!]
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All-Star Squadron / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks:
Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:C-826
Characters:
All-Star Squadron [Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Shining Knight; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (as a giant praying mantis)
Reprints (1)
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: DC [bullet]
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

Afternoon of the Assassins!
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All-Star Squadron / comic story / 24 pages

Script:
Gerry Conway ("Steel" sequence)
Pencils:
Don Heck ("Steel" sequence)
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-7958
Characters:
All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Liberty Belle; Steel [Hank Heywood] (origin recap); Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (villain); Dr. Gilbert Giles (flashback); Major Morton; Baron Blitzkrieg (cameo); Zwerg (cameo); Gloria Giles (flashback)
Synopsis:
Winston Churchill is saved from assassination by Steel during his trip to America and Canada in 1941.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

This and the next issue incorporate pages from the never-published Steel, the Indestructible Man (DC, 1978 series) #6 re-inked, re-lettered, and partially re-drawn and re-written. Pages 1-8 are penciled by Adrian Gonzales. Pages 10, 11, 14, 15, and 17 are penciled by Don Heck. Pages 9, 12, 13, and 16 feature panels drawn by both Heck and Gonzales.

Versus Kung the Assassin from Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #238 (December 1977) and Baron Blitzkrieg. Steel the Indestructible Man is introduced into the feature. Story continues in All-Star Squadron #9 (May 1982).

[The Shining Knight; Robotman; Johnny Quick]
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All-Star Squadron Fact File / character profile / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-7958
Characters:
All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Winged Victory; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]

[no title indexed]
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All Star Comments / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Roy Thomas (signed as R. T.)
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-997

Indexer Notes

Letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #4 from Mark Waldman, John K, Austin, and Wally Podrazik.

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    All-Star Squadron
  3. [The Shining Knight; Robotman; Johnny Quick]
    All-Star Squadron Fact File
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    All Star Comments
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