(January 1976)
- Volume:
- 3
- Price:
- 1.50 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- ?
- ISBN:
- ?
- Barcode:
- ?
- Editing:
- Paul Levitz; Carl Gafford
- Format:
- Black & White; Magazine size; saddle-stitched
Issue Notes
Official fanzine for DC Comics. Majority of magazine is articles on DC heroes and their creators.
Behind the Scene in DC's Production Department
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Murphy Anderson
- Inks:
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors:
- Carl Gafford (color guide & separations)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- satire-parody; superhero
- Characters:
- Superman, Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Sol Harrison; Jack Adler
- Synopsis:
- Photograph of Sol Harrison and Jack Adler in the DC production department with added art.
Indexer Notes
Cover is combination of art and black and white photograph with color overlays. Coloring information provided by Carl Gafford.
Green Lantern No. 8
Green Lantern / cover reprint (on interior page) / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Jack Adler
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
from Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #8 (September-October 1961)
-
Indexer Notes
Page 24-25. Horizontal two-page reprint of cover to Green Lantern #8.
Through the Wringer
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- David V. Reed
- Pencils:
- Ramona Frandon
- Inks:
- Ramona Frandon
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Characters:
- Cain (host)
- Synopsis:
- Comics writer Phil Binger hounds an editor for advances on his salary; even coming from the grave for one last handout.
Indexer Notes
Pages 38-43. Possibly an unpublished story from "The House of Mystery".
Modern Technology and the Get-Away Car!
Crime Can Be Comedy? / comic story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Kirby
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- John Costanza
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime; satire-parody
- Synopsis:
- A parody of 1930s gangster movies, showing what would happen if they used modern technology in their get-away cars.
Indexer Notes
Pages 47-48. Per Mark Evanier and Martin O'Hearn, Jack Kirby wrote and pencilled the story, not John Costanza, as original indexer listed. The story was originally intended for "In the Days of The Mob", not Plop as original indexer suspected. Title is listed as "Crime Machines" in the table of contents.
Movie Comics No. 5
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- Carl Gafford (color guide & separations)
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- adventure
- Characters:
- Joan Bennett; Louis Hayward
- Synopsis:
- Cover feature is "The Man in the Iron Mask" movie adaptation.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Movie Comics (DC, 1939 series) #5 (August 1939)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Coloring information provided by Carl Gafford.
Table of Contents
-
0.
Behind the Scene in DC's Production Department
-
1.
Green Lantern No. 8
Green Lantern -
2.
Through the Wringer
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3.
Modern Technology and the Get-Away Car!
Crime Can Be Comedy? -
4.
Movie Comics No. 5
- R. J. Roper
- Daniel Thingvold
- Merlin Haas
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Gregg Whitmore
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