Volume: 21
Price: 0.40 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1979-10-09
Editing: Ross Andru (credited) (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
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[no title indexed]
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Justice League of America / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Dick Dillin (signed)
Inks:
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:C-225
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:This is only the beginning -- The city is doomed!
Characters:
Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]]; The Regulator
Reprints (3)
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: ?
  • Barcode: 0709893055501

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #173.

A Plague of Monsters
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Justice League of America / comic story / 17 pages

Script:
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils:
Dick Dillin (credited)
Inks:
Frank McLaughlin (credited)
Colors:
Jerry Serpe (credited)
Letters:
Todd Klein (credited)
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-6138
Characters:
Justice League of America [Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Zatanna; The Atom [Ray Palmer] (cameo); Red Tornado [John Smith] (cameo); Aquaman [Arthur Curry] (cameo); Black Canary [Dinah Lance] (cameo)]; Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce] (guest star); The Regulator [Barnabas Boulter] (villain); Inspector Henderson; Traya (cameo); Jean Loring Palmer (cameo)
Synopsis:
Black Lightning continues to help the League against the Regulator, but again refuses their offer of membership.
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The Stony-Eyed Medusa
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The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page

[no title indexed]
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JLA Mail Room / letters page / 1.5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
? (logo illustration)
Inks:
? (logo illustration)
Colors:
? (logo illustration)
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-433

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Daniel S. Lee, Ted P. Skimmer (an alias of Bob Rozakis), Gordon Smith, Sal Casente, Joseph Fabiszak, Dave Elyea, and Brian Chafin.

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    Justice League of America
  2. A Plague of Monsters
    Justice League of America
  3. The Stony-Eyed Medusa
    The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. [no title indexed]
    JLA Mail Room
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