DC Special Series
#10 - Secret Origins of Super-Heroes Special
([April] 1978)
DC,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- twelve times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1978-01-31
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893160504
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- E. Nelson Bridwell (credited) (editor); Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the 1978 Library of Congress copyright records (cocatalog.loc.gov). Same date given in Comic Reader #152, DC Coming Attractions #14, and in house ads in Black Lightning #8 and World's Finest Comics #250.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- José Luis García-López (signed as
Garcia Lopez) - Inks
- José Luis García-López (signed as Garcia Lopez)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-679
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Lightray [Sollis]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]
- Reprints
-
in New Gods by Gerry Conway (DC, 2020 series) ([June] 2020)
-
Behold the Secret Origins of Super-Heroes!
table of contents / 1 page
- Job Number
- J-5201
- Characters
- Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Lightray [Sollis]; Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]
This Immortal Destiny
Doctor Fate / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Staton (credited)
- Inks
- Michael Netzer (credited as Mike Nasser) (signed as Michael Nasser)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (credited)
- Letters
- Shelly Leferman (credited)
- Job Number
- J-5062
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inez Nelson; Nabu
- Reprints
-
in La Ligue de Justice (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #6 - Tornades en furie ! (septembre 1983) [Moins [Minus] 2 pages] - in The Immortal Doctor Fate (DC, 1985 series) #1 (January 1985)
- in Névrose (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #5 (décembre 1985) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Gardner Fox and Hal Sherman are credited as "Original Archivists."
This Light A-Borning
Lightray / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (credited)
- Pencils
- Don Newton (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte (credited)
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe (credited)
- Letters
- Todd Klein (credited)
- Job Number
- J-5088
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lightray [Sollis]; Orion; Metron
- Reprints
- in New Gods by Gerry Conway (DC, 2020 series) ([June] 2020)
-
The Canary Is a Bird of Prey
Black Canary / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (credited)
- Pencils
- Mike Vosburg (credited)
- Inks
- Terry Austin (credited)
- Colors
- Mario Sen (credited)
- Letters
- Shelly Leferman (credited)
- Job Number
- J-5064
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Canary [Dinah Drake Lance]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Lieutenant Richard Drake; Larry Lance; Johnny Thunder; Thunderbolt; Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Midnite [Charles McNider]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Flash [Jay Garrick]] (flashback); Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]] (flashback)
- Reprints
- in Hercule (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #26 (décembre 1982) [N&B [B&W]]
-
[no title indexed]
Original Thinking / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-902
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Rick Taylor, Jerry Bails and Phillip Botwinick.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
Behold the Secret Origins of Super-Heroes!
-
2.
This Immortal Destiny
Doctor Fate -
3.
The Big Fall
Hostess Cup Cakes; Superman -
4.
This Light A-Borning
Lightray -
5.
The Canary Is a Bird of Prey
Black Canary -
6.
[no title indexed]
Original Thinking
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- Steve Coates
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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