(April-May 1974)

DC, 1973 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1974-01-15
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Periodical Publications Inc.
Brand
The Line of DC Super-Stars
Editing
Denny O'Neil (credited as Dennis O'Neil) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #103.

Death Is Bliss! (Table of Contents)

The Shadow / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta)
Inks
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta)
Colors
Jack Adler
Letters
?

Job Number
Z-234
Genre
detective-mystery; superhero
Characters
The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Color credits provided and confirmed by Anthony Tollin (DC Comics proofreader 1974-76/assistant production manager/color coordinator 1976-81) and Carl Gafford (DC Comics proofreader 1973-74/assistant production manager 1974-76).

Death Is Bliss! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Shadow / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Denny O'Neil (credited); Len Wein (credited)
Pencils
Michael Wm. Kaluta (credited)
Inks
Michael Wm. Kaluta (credited); Stephen Hickman (credited as SFH) (pp. 1, 2, 3, 4); Bernie Wrightson (credited as Wrightson) (pp. 1, 15); Howard Chaykin (credited as Chaykin) (pp. 8, 9, 10)
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
Z-227
Genre
detective-mystery; superhero
Characters
Margo Lane; The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; Shrevvy; Clancy; Burbank; Harry Vincent; Ambrose "Devil" Devlin (villain); Homer Bliss (villain); Natchez Nate Johnson
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Chapter 1 (10 pages), Chapter 2: "Grave Secret!" (10 pages).

In Back Issue magazine #10, Mike Kaluta says about the inking in this issue, "On the splash page to issue #4, there is a truck barreling across the page. The license plates on the front bumper of the truck have got each artist's name and little page numbers to tell what pages they worked on."
UPDATE: Per email directly from Mr. Kaluta, the dashes on the license plates do not mean "through". Only the specific pages listed were done by those artists.

Color credits provided and confirmed by Anthony Tollin (DC Comics proofreader 1974-76/assistant production manager/color coordinator 1976-81) and Carl Gafford (DC Comics proofreader 1973-74/assistant production manager 1974-76).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Shadow Knows / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Denny O'Neil ?
Pencils
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta)
Inks
Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed as MW Kaluta)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
Z-232

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Arlen Schumer, Dianne Powell, Mac Patterson, Chris Padovano, Bill Shoneff, Sam Combs, Andy Whitehead, and Steve Savino.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Death Is Bliss!
    The Shadow
  2. 1. Death Is Bliss!
    The Shadow
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Shadow Knows
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Weldon Adams
  • Nick Caputo
  • mike clark
  • CTGarry
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore