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Issue: All-Star Squadron #40
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Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/27/1984
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893111112
Price: $0.95 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (editor); Janice Race (associate editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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Amazing Man vs. Real American

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Arvell Jones (signed)
Aubrey Bradford (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron [Amazing-Man; Robotman [Robert Crane] (photo); Liberty Belle (photo); Hourman [Rex Tyler] (photo); Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (photo)]; Real American
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Miscellaneous
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A portion of the cover from All-Star Squadron #39 is used as a newspaper photograph in the background.
The Rise and Fall of the Phantom Empire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Roy Thomas
Richard Howell
Bill Collins
Gene D'Angelo
David Cody Weiss [as Cody]
Subject Matter
superhero
All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Amazing-Man; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Real American (villain); Monitor (cameo); Lyta [Harbinger] (cameo); The Phantom Emperor (villain)
The Squadron faces off vs. the "Real American," who is destroyed and revealed to be an android. The true face behind the racist group is revealed. He then calls up the Monitor to ask for a replacement for the android, but is refused.
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Miscellaneous
21
G-1542
Conclusion of the Real American story-line which uses racism in World War II-era Detroit as a springboard. Story continues from the previous issue.

Non-advertised, pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series, three-panel-sequence-cameo with The Monitor (only hand, shown with voice) and Lyta.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Roy Thomas
typeset
Subject Matter
All-Star Squadroom
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Miscellaneous
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L-1755
Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #35.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Sal Amendola
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typeset
Subject Matter
Meanwhile...
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Golden Age Gallery

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Roy Thomas
Joe Staton (signed)
Bob Layton (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Justice Society of America
Justice Society of America [JSA; Atom [Al Pratt]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Wonder Woman (Earth-2)]; Adolf Hitler
Pinup of Golden Age JSA members breaking through a wall to rescue a bound Wonder Woman from a pistol-wielding Adolf Hitler.
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