All-Star Squadron #49 [Direct]
(September 1985)

DC, 1981 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-06-04
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Roy Thomas (credited) (editor); Janice Race (credited) (associate editor); Tom Condon (credited) (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases (Dc, 1984 series) #16 (September 1985).
This issue has variants:

The Wrath of Wotan! (Table of Contents)

All-Star Squadron / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Harris (signed)
Inks
Tony DeZuniga (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Genre
superhero
Characters
All-Star Squadron: Robotman [Robert Crane / Paul Dennis]
All-Star Squadron: Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
Blackhawk; Wotan (villain)
Cover Thumbnail for All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #49 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for All-Star Squadron (1981 series) #49 [Newsstand]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

Death-Sword at Sunrise! (Table of Contents: 1)

All-Star Squadron / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas (credited)
Pencils
Mike Harris (credited)
Inks
Vince Colletta (credited) (pages 1-11, 13, 16-23); Tony DeZuniga (credited) (pages 12, 14-15)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
David Cody Weiss (credited as Cody)
Genre
superhero
Characters
All-Star Squadron: Robotman [Robert Crane / Paul Dennis]
All-Star Squadron: Dr. Fate [Kent Nelson]; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Shining Knight [Sir Justin]
Blackhawk; Winston Churchill; Inza Cramer (flashback); Dr. Occult (guest); Adolf Hitler (on TV); Winged Victory; Wotan (villain)
Synopsis
The All-Star Squadron, with help from Dr. Occult and Blackhawk, stop Wotan and free the Shining Knight from his influence.
Keywords
Camelot; England; World War II

Indexer Notes

Through an inadvertent omission, this issue is the first JSA adventure that does not feature a Hawkman in at least some sense. A corrected version of the last panel appears in #54. Story continued from previous issue.

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

All-Star Squadroom / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas (credited)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2051

Indexer Notes

Letters from Lou Mougin, D. Pollock, Jenny Blank, and Robert T. Jeschonek reviewing All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #44 (April 1985). The last page contains very small artwork for the cover of All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #50 (October 1985).

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

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Wrath of Wotan!
    All-Star Squadron
  2. 1. Death-Sword at Sunrise!
    All-Star Squadron
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    All-Star Squadroom
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • 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.