All-Star Squadron
#8
[Newsstand]
(April 1982)
DC,
1981 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-01-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893111104
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #198.
This issue is a variant of All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #8 [Direct].
This issue is a variant of All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #8 [Direct].
[Afternoon of the Assassins!]
All-Star Squadron / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Kubert (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-826
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Shining Knight; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (as a giant praying mantis)
- Reprints
-
in Showcase Presents: All-Star Squadron (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
-
- Keywords
- giant insect; train
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Afternoon of the Assassins!
All-Star Squadron / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas; Gerry Conway ("Steel" sequence)
- Pencils
- Adrian Gonzales; Don Heck ("Steel" sequence)
- Inks
- Jerry Ordway
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- J-7958
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Liberty Belle; Steel [Hank Heywood] (origin recap); Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (villain); Dr. Gilbert Giles (flashback); Major Morton; Baron Blitzkrieg (cameo); Zwerg (cameo); Gloria Giles (flashback)
- Synopsis
- Winston Churchill is saved from assassination by Steel during his trip to America and Canada in 1941.
- Reprints
- from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1978 series) #2 (Fall 1978)
-
in L'Escadron des Etoiles (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #4 - La Grande Conspiration (mars 1983) - in Showcase Presents: All-Star Squadron (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
-
- Keywords
- Canada; Messerschmidt; World War II
Indexer Notes
This and the next issue incorporate pages from the never-published Steel, the Indestructible Man (DC, 1978 series) #6 re-inked, re-lettered, and partially re-drawn and re-written. Pages 1-8 are penciled by Adrian Gonzales. Pages 10, 11, 14, 15, and 17 are penciled by Don Heck. Pages 9, 12, 13, and 16 feature panels drawn by both Heck and Gonzales.
Versus Kung the Assassin from Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #238 (December 1977) and Baron Blitzkrieg. Steel the Indestructible Man is introduced into the feature. Story continues in All-Star Squadron #9 (May 1982).
[The Shining Knight; Robotman; Johnny Quick]
All-Star Squadron Fact File / character profile / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-7958
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Winged Victory; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]
[no title indexed]
All Star Comments / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas (signed as R. T.)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-997
Indexer Notes
Letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #4 from Mark Waldman, John K, Austin, and Wally Podrazik.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[Afternoon of the Assassins!]
All-Star Squadron -
1.
Afternoon of the Assassins!
All-Star Squadron -
2.
[The Shining Knight; Robotman; Johnny Quick]
All-Star Squadron Fact File -
3.
[no title indexed]
All Star Comments
This issue was modified by
- Alex Dewar
- Jim Van Dore
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