([September] 1984)

DC, 1982 Series
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Price
1.50 CAD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
annually
On-sale Date
1984-06-21
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893180045
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of DC Comics Presents Annual (DC, 1982 series) #3 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gil Kane (signed as G K)
Inks
Gil Kane (signed as G K)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Captain Marvel; Doctor Sivana
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents Annual (DC, 1982 series) #3 [Canadian] Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents Annual (1982 series) #3 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents Annual (1982 series) #3 [Newsstand]
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With One Magic Word (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Superman / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script
Roy Thomas (story); Julius Schwartz (story assist); Gil Kane (story assist); Joey Cavalieri (script)
Pencils
Gil Kane
Inks
Gil Kane
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Ben Oda
Genre
superhero
Characters
Marvel Family [Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Captain Marvel Jr. [Freddy Freeman]; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]]; Superman [Kal-El] (Earth-1); Superman [Kal-L] (Earth-2); Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana [also as Captain/Lieutenant/Colonel/General Sivana] (villain); Shazam; Lana Lang
Synopsis
Sivana steals Shazam's magic lightning to power himself up and weaken Captain Marvel. After he imprisons Captain Marvel at the Rock of Eternity, Sivana decides to eliminate the only threat left to him: Superman. Accidentally arriving on Earth-2, he leaves the original Superman on a Kryptonite meteor before heading to Earth-1 to lure Superman there into another Kryptonite trap. But with the encouragement of his Elders, Captain Marvel escapes his imprisonment and saves Superman, who frees his doppelganger, and wakes Shazam, who removes Sivana's powers.
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Keywords
green kryptonite

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
In panel three of page nine Gil Kane draws himself and editor Julius Schwartz as bystanders looking up in amazement at Sivana's flying machine.

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

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

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

Pair Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-4451

Indexer Notes

Letters from No. 11, Dustan Leary, and Glen Dynin.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Superman
  2. 1. With One Magic Word
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Pair Mail
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  • Ruben Cortes
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore
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