All-Star Squadron
#5
[Newsstand]
(January 1982)
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-10-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893111101
- Editing
- Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #5 [Direct].
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All-Star Squadron / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed)
- Inks
- Romeo Tanghal (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-759
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lady Liberty becomes a battleground for...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]; Nazis (villain)
- Reprints
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in L'Escadron des Etoiles (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #3 - Le Dieu Serpent (novembre 1982) which is reprinted - in Gamma la bombe qui a créé Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #19 - Colosses en furie (décembre 1982)
- in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #25 (janvier 1983)
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in Showcase Presents: All-Star Squadron (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
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- Keywords
- Statue of Liberty
Indexer Notes
The black arrow on the cover was originally meant to read "Introducing FIRE-BRAND! The hottest new heroine of all!" Chemical Color, DC's color separators, misplaced the extra words. (Roy Thomas promised the responsible party would be replaced as well.) The letters page in the next issue talks about the error and includes an image of how the arrow was supposed to read.
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Never Step on a Feathered Serpent!
All-Star Squadron / comic story / 27 pages
- Job Number
- J-7644
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (intro as Firebrand); Dr. Mid-Nite; Starman [Ted Knight]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Thunder (Earth-2); Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dr. Fate; Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (flashback); Hawkgirl [as Shiera Sanders]; Shining Knight; Winged Victory]; The Feathered Serpent (villain); General Saukel; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (flashback); Slugger Dunn (flashback); Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (flashback)
- Synopsis
- The All-Star Squadron travel to Mexico to search for the missing Shiera Sanders.
- Reprints
- in L'Escadron des Etoiles (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #3 - Le Dieu Serpent (novembre 1982)
- in Showcase Presents: All-Star Squadron (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
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- Keywords
- flamethrower; German American Bund; Mayan; Mexico; Nazi; New York City; pyramid; Statue of Liberty; Yucatan
Indexer Notes
Danette Reilly becomes the new Firebrand. Per Roy Thomas, he considered using the Quality Comics character Wildfire, but likely decided to create a sister for Rod Reilly to take over the Firebrand name in part because of the Legion of Super-Heroes character by that name. (Suggested by Anthony William Durrant via the GCD Error Tracker.)
Story continues in part from All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #4 (December 1981); story continues in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #6 (February 1982)
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All Star Comments / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-914
Indexer Notes
Letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #1 from Mike Gallagher, Shepherd Siegel, Steven Utley, Jerry Bails, and Andrew MacLaney.
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0.
["Lady Liberty becomes a battleground for..."]
All-Star Squadron -
1.
Never Step on a Feathered Serpent!
All-Star Squadron -
2.
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All Star Comments
- Jochen G.
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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