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Issue: All-Star Squadron #8

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Publication Date: April 1982

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Issues: #8 of 67 Issues (189 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/28/1982

Volume: 2

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893111104

Price: $0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #198.

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Format

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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All-Star Squadron #8 [Direct]

All-Star Squadron #8 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

Afternoon of the Assassins!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): All-Star Squadron

Character(s): 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)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-826

Afternoon of the Assassins!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Gerry Conway ("Steel" sequence)

Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales; Don Heck ("Steel" sequence)

Inker(s): Jerry Ordway

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): All-Star Squadron

Character(s): 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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 24

Job Number: J-7958

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

Character Profile on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales

Inker(s): Jerry Ordway

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): All-Star Squadron Fact File

Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Winged Victory; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]

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Pages: 1

Job Number: J-7958

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas [as R. T.]

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): All-Star Comments

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-997

Notes: Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #4.