Volume: 5
Price: 1.00 USD
Pages: 60
On-sale Date: 1976-05-04
Editing: Sol Harrison; Paul Levitz (assistant editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-47 Edit Cover
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Superman Salutes the Bicentennial
(Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
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Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:superhero
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Color credits provided by Anthony Tollin.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comics Reader #130.

[Foreword]
(Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
? (illustration)
Inks:
? (illustration)
Letters:
typeset
Characters:
United States Capitol
Synopsis:
Introduction by Sol Harrison, president of National Periodical Publications, Inc.

Indexer Notes

On the inside front cover.

The Spirit of 1776!
(Table of Contents: 2)

Superman; Tomahawk / comic story / 3 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Curt Swan (page 1 and all but last panel of page 2)
Fred Ray (last panel of page 2 and all of page 3)
Inks:
Vince Colletta (uncredited, page 1 and all but last panel of page 2)
Fred Ray (last panel of page 2 and all of page 3)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero; war
  • Job Number:L-498
Characters:
Superman; Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; George Washington
Synopsis:
Superman uses his time projector to view Tomahawk and Dan Hunter's first meeting with George Washington.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Colletta inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Curt Swan as only Swan and Ray are credited.

Introduction by Superman leads into the one-page excerpt from Tomahawk story.

Adventure in New York!
(Table of Contents: 3)

Tomahawk / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
?
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Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:L-499
Characters:
Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; George Washington; Major Throg-Smith; Wylie; Sam Appleby; Will Reade; Tim Benson; Basil Barr; John MacReady
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Introduction by Superman added at top of first panel.

The Magic Tomahawk!
(Table of Contents: 4)

Tomahawk / comic story / 5.67 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:L-500
Characters:
Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; Paul Revere (cameo); George Washington; Chief Three Eagles
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Features an introduction by Superman added at top of first panel.

Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!
(Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 0.33 page

Script:
?
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war
Characters:
Colonel William Prescott
Synopsis:
Factoid about quote from Colonel William Prescott.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Art credits from index of original publication.

[Valley Forge]
(Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 13 pages

Script:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:L-501
Characters:
General Sir William Howe; George Washington; Baron Von Stueben
Synopsis:
General George Washington and his troops suffer through Valley Forge.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Copyright 1951 Frederic Ray.

The First Sub
(Table of Contents: 7)

Tomahawk / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:L-502
Characters:
Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; David Bushnell; Chief Choctaw
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Introduction by Superman added at top of first panel.

Frontier Theater!
(Table of Contents: 8)

Tomahawk / comic story / 5.67 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:L-503
Characters:
Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; Jefferson Hale; Bess Hale; Colonel Rhodes; John Beckett
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Introduction by Superman added at top of first panel.

Original title: "Tomahawk's Triumph!"

Map of the Battle of Bunker Hill
(Table of Contents: 9)

cartoon / 0.33 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:war
Synopsis:
Filler featuring an illustration of a map of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, subtitled "The Battle that was Misnamed", as the battle was actually fought on Breed's Hill.
Reprints (0)
  • from ?

The Battle of the Master Woodsmen
(Table of Contents: 10)

Tomahawk / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:war; western-frontier
  • Job Number:L-504
Characters:
Tomahawk; Dan Hunter; Thacker Young; Fleet Foot; Angry Bear
Synopsis:
Tomahawk and Dan are meeting with a friend when it is announced that the Revolutionary War has started. But their friend joins the British army, and duels in a battle of wits with Tomahawk.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Introduction by Superman added at top of first panel.

The Bicentennial Planet
(Table of Contents: 11)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Fred Ray (illustrations)
Inks:
Fred Ray (illustrations)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:war
  • Job Number:L-505
Characters:
Superman
Synopsis:
A bonus feature showcasing a newspaper from the 1770's/1780's that features the following news stories: "Continental Congress Declares Independence," "Armed Rebellion at Lexington," "Cornwallis Surrenders" and "Peace Treaty with England Signed."
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Introduction by Superman at the top of each page. Includes an illustration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and an illustration of George Washington at Valley Forge.

Who Were the Hessians?
(Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 0.67 page

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:non-fiction; war
Synopsis:
A two-third page illustration of Benedict Arnold, a strange war monument and the Hessians.
Reprints (0)
  • from ? [appears to be a reprint]

Indexer Notes

On the inside back cover.

Fred Ray, Jr.
(Table of Contents: 13)

text article / 0.33 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:biography
Synopsis:
Bio of Fred Ray.

Indexer Notes

On the inside back cover.

The Presidents of the United States
(Table of Contents: 14)

illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
Synopsis:
Illustrations and years of presidency for each president through Gerald Ford.

Indexer Notes

On back cover.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Superman Salutes the Bicentennial
    Superman
  2. [Foreword]
  3. The Spirit of 1776!
    Superman; Tomahawk
  4. Adventure in New York!
    Tomahawk
  5. The Magic Tomahawk!
    Tomahawk
  6. Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes!
  7. [Valley Forge]
  8. The First Sub
    Tomahawk
  9. Frontier Theater!
    Tomahawk
  10. Map of the Battle of Bunker Hill
  11. The Battle of the Master Woodsmen
    Tomahawk
  12. The Bicentennial Planet
  13. Who Were the Hessians?
  14. Fred Ray, Jr.
  15. The Presidents of the United States
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