(December 1977-January 1978)

DC, 1977 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
1
Price
0.35 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1977-08-24
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893287001
Editing
Jack C. Harris (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #146.

[To Rescue My Destroyer] (Table of Contents)

Shade, the Changing Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Genre
science fiction; superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Shade the Changing Man [Rac Shade]; Mellu; Gola Zae
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Shade, the Changing Man (DC, 1977 series) #4
Edit cover
Cover gallery

To Rescue My Destroyer (Table of Contents: 1)

Shade, the Changing Man / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Ditko (story); Michael Fleisher (dialogue)
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Bill Morse
Job Number
J-4787
Genre
science fiction; superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Shade the Changing Man [Rac Shade]; Mellu Loron; Colonel Kabe Kross; Gola Zae (villain); Sude; Goens (flashback); Sgt. Barak; Dr. Sagan; Ogaf (villain)
Reprints

Cooky La Moo on Broadway (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Mysterious Messages to the Meta-Zone / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jack C. Harris
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-753

Indexer Notes

Explains that Shade's adventures take place on Earth-1.

The Greatest Superman Story Ever Told (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

DC Publishorial / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [To Rescue My Destroyer]
    Shade, the Changing Man
  2. 1. To Rescue My Destroyer
    Shade, the Changing Man
  3. 2. Cooky La Moo on Broadway
    Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Mysterious Messages to the Meta-Zone
  5. 4. The Greatest Superman Story Ever Told
    DC Publishorial
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • CTGarry
  • Matthew Head
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.