All-Star Squadron
#23
[Newsstand]
(July 1983)
DC,
1981 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-04-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893111107
- Editing
- Nicola Cuti (assistant editor); Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #23 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
The Awesome Origin of... Amazing-Man!
All-Star Squadron / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jerry Ordway (signed)
- Inks
- Jerry Ordway (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-344
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Liberty Belle; Dr. Fate]; Amazing-Man
![Cover Thumbnail for All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #23 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/0/w200/477.jpg?-6553754692885409931)
![Cover Thumbnail for All-Star Squadron (1981 series) #23 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/928/w100/928474.jpg?2877114236906614305)
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When Fate Thy Measure Takes...!
All-Star Squadron / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-8615
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Liberty Belle; Steel [Hank Heywood]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Robotman [Robert Crane] (flashback); Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (flashback)]; Justice Society of America [JSA; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Dr. Fate (brief origin recap); Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Superman (Earth-2) (flashback)]; Amazing-Man (intro); Ultra-Humanite (flashback); Cyclotron (flashback); Deathbolt (flashback); Elektro; Sven Nelson (flashback); Nabu (flashback); Inza Cramer (flashback)
- Synopsis
- The Atom and Dr. Fate travel to Dr. Fate's tower where they discover that it has been entered by Amazing Man, who is looking for Dr. Fate's helmet.
- Keywords
- Perisphere; Powerstone; Trylon; World War II
Indexer Notes
Story continues from the previous issue; story continues in the next issue.
The Secret Origin of... Amazing-Man!
All-Star Squadron / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Rick Hoberg
- Inks
- Mike Machlan
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo ?
- Letters
- David Cody Weiss ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Amazing-Man (origin); Adolf Hitler (flashback); Jesse Owens (photo); Deathbolt (flashback); Ultra-Humanite (flashback); Cyclotron (flashback); Inza Cramer (flashback)
- Synopsis
- The origin of Amazing-Man.
- Keywords
- 1936 Olympics; Detroit Michigan; Germany; Great Depression; World War II
Indexer Notes
This is embedded in the main story (pages 16-21), but indexed separately since it really stands apart in art and story.
[no title indexed]
All-Star Squadroom / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Jerry Ordway (Tarantula illustration)
- Inks
- Jerry Ordway ? (Tarantula illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-1357
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Tarantula
Indexer Notes
Letters from Gardner F. Fox, John L. Egnew, Charles David Haskell, Wallace Lee Hopkins, Mike Sopp, and Evan M. Lanctot reviewing All-Star Squadron #19.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Awesome Origin of... Amazing-Man!
All-Star Squadron -
1.
When Fate Thy Measure Takes...!
All-Star Squadron -
2.
The Secret Origin of... Amazing-Man!
All-Star Squadron -
3.
[no title indexed]
Meanwhile... -
4.
[no title indexed]
All-Star Squadroom
This issue was modified by
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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