DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest
#22
[Direct]
(June 1982)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.95 USD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-02-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC Blue Ribbon Digest
- Editing
- E. Nelson Bridwell (editor); Dick Giordano (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Secret Origins of Super-Heroes
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed as Andru)
- Inks
- Mike DeCarlo (signed as DeCarlo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-890
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy]; Green Lantern; Inferior Five [Dumb Bunny; Awkwardman; The Blimp; Merryman; White Feather]
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Secret Origins of Super-Heroes Contents
table of contents / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
SOS Green Lantern
Green Lantern / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (intro, origin); Green Lantern [Abin Sur] (intro)
- Synopsis
- Hal Jordan is selected by the power ring of Abin Sur to become a Green Lantern.
- Reprints
-
from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #22 (September-October 1959)
-
Indexer Notes
Reprints introduction and origin of the Silver Age Green Lantern.
Secret of the Flaming Spear!
Green Lantern / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Carol Ferris (intro); Willard Ferris (intro); saboteurs (villains); Frank Nichols (Pilot)
- Synopsis
- Saboteurs try to crash a new experimental aircraft created by Ferris Aircraft.
- Reprints
- from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #22 (September-October 1959)
-
Indexer Notes
Reformatted to fill nine full pages.
The Coming of the Costumed Incompetents
Inferior Five / comic story / 24 pages
- Genre
- satire-parody; humor; superhero
- Reprints
- from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #62 (May-June 1966), #62 (May-June 1966), #62 (May-June 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
1st appearance
I Was the Man with Animal Powers
Animal Man / comic story / 16 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Animal Man
- Reprints
- from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #180 (September 1965)
-
Indexer Notes
Reprints origin & first appearance. Script credited to France E. Herron on splash page.
Black Lightning
Black Lightning / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Tony Isabella
- Pencils
- Trevor Von Eeden
- Inks
- Frank Springer
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- P. G. Lisa
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Black Lightning (DC, 1977 series) #1 (April 1977)
-
Indexer Notes
Reprints origin and first appearance.
Target-- 21 Legionnaires! Part 1: And Then There Were None!
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Jim Shooter
- Pencils
- Jim Shooter (layouts); George Papp (pencils)
- Inks
- George Papp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy]; Dr. Regulus
- Synopsis
- After Invisible Kid is elected new Legion leader, the Legion performs at a charity benefit where Sun Boy is hurt and loses his memory. But it may not be an accident, but rather the work of Dr. Regulus, who has taken Legion headquarters right out of the ground.
- Reprints
- from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #348 (September 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Origin of Sun Boy.
Part II: Birds in a Golden Cage
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Jim Shooter
- Pencils
- Jim Shooter (layouts); George Papp (pencils)
- Inks
- George Papp
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn
- Feature Logo
- Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Phantom Girl; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy]; Dr. Regulus
- Synopsis
- The Legionnaires trace their purloined headquarters to Dr. Regulus' spaceship, but it takes Sun Boy to bring him down.
- Reprints
- from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #348 (September 1966)
-
[Stories in the Issue]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5]; Green Lantern; Inferior Five [Dumb Bunny; Awkwardman; The Blimp; Merryman; White Feather]; Black Lightning
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Secret Origins of Super-Heroes
-
1.
Secret Origins of Super-Heroes Contents
-
2.
SOS Green Lantern
Green Lantern -
3.
Secret of the Flaming Spear!
Green Lantern -
4.
The Coming of the Costumed Incompetents
Inferior Five -
5.
I Was the Man with Animal Powers
Animal Man -
6.
Black Lightning
Black Lightning -
7.
Target-- 21 Legionnaires! Part 1: And Then There Were None!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
8.
Part II: Birds in a Golden Cage
Legion of Super-Heroes -
9.
Swamp Thing Is Back!
Swamp Thing -
10.
[Stories in the Issue]
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