(January 1976)
DC,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 1.50 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly with a special edition in February
- On-sale Date
- 1976-02-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Editing
- Paul Levitz (editor); Carl Gafford (editor)
Issue Notes
Official fanzine for DC Comics. Majority of magazine is articles on DC heroes and their creators.
On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of January 15 in Comic Reader #126.
On-sale date from copyright registration. On-sale date of January 15 in Comic Reader #126.
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
Behind the Scene in DC's Production Department
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (color guide & separations)
- Letters
- ?
- 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
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
- Reprints
-
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
- 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 Possibly an unpublished story from "The House of Mystery".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
- 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.
- Reprints
- in In the Days of the Mob (DC, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
- in DC Universe: The Bronze Age Omnibus by Jack Kirby (DC, 2019 series) ([September] 2019)
-
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
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Joan Bennett; Louis Hayward
- Synopsis
- Cover feature is "The Man in the Iron Mask" movie adaptation.
- Reprints
- from Movie Comics (DC, 1939 series) #5 (August 1939)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Coloring information provided by Carl Gafford.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
Behind the Scene in DC's Production Department
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2.
Green Lantern No. 8
Green Lantern -
3.
Through the Wringer
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4.
Modern Technology and the Get-Away Car!
Crime Can Be Comedy? -
5.
Movie Comics No. 5
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Karsten S.
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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