Super Friends #40 [Direct]
(January 1981)

DC, 1976 Series
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Volume
6
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
40
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
A DC TV Comic [bullet]
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)

Issue Notes

The entire issue without cover is reprinted in Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (DC, 1981 series) #5.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Super Friends / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ramona Fradon (signed)
Inks
Bob Smith (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Todd Klein

Job Number
S-3495
Genre
superhero
Characters
Wonder Woman; Superman; Aquaman; Batman; Robin; Zan; Jayna; Jack O'Lantern (inset)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Menace of the Mixed-Up Senses! (Table of Contents: 1)

Super Friends / comic story / 16.67 pages (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell; Nick Pascale (credited as Nicholas Pascale) (plot)
Pencils
Ramona Fradon
Inks
Kim DeMulder
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Ben Oda

Job Number
S-3485
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Monocle [Danton Graeme] (intro); Superman; Aquaman; Herbert Graeme (Monocle's father); Emma Graeme (Monocle's mother); Batman; Robin; Wonder Woman; Zan; Jayna; Gleek
Synopsis
The Monocle uses his powers to make people see things that are not there to try to destroy the Super Friends.
Reprints

The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Current Super Attractions (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Blarney for Sale! (Table of Contents: 4)

Jack O'Lantern / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils
Romeo Tanghal
Inks
Kim DeMulder
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Milt Snapinn

Job Number
S-3487
Genre
superhero
Characters
Jack O'Lantern [Daniel Cormac]; Seamus O'Mara; Fergus; Rose Shehan
Synopsis
Jack O'Lantern stops two con-men who are selling fake pieces of the Blarney Stone.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Super Fans / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
S-3501
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mark Lagasse, Kent A. Phenis, Russell Burbage, Steve Piziks, and Rob Volpe.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Super Friends
  2. 1. Menace of the Mixed-Up Senses!
    Super Friends
  3. 2. The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
    The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. 3. Current Super Attractions
  5. 4. Blarney for Sale!
    Jack O'Lantern
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Super Fans
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • CTGarry
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Vik-Thor Rose
  • Jim Stangas
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Bjorn Wallin