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Issue: All-Star Squadron #62

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Publication Date: October 1986

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Issues: #62 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: 07/24/1986

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893111110

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Roy Thomas (creative editor); Greg Weisman (assistant editor)

Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #29.

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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

Format Notes:

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All-Star Squadron #62 [Direct]

All-Star Squadron #62 [CA Cover Price]

All-Star Squadron #62 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (6 total)

The Origin of the Shining Knight!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Tony DeZuñiga

Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Tales of the All-Star Squadron

Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight]; Merlin (background)

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Pages: 1

The Origin of the Shining Knight

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Penciller(s): Tony DeZuñiga

Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Tales of the All-Star Squadron

Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight (origin); Winged Victory; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (cameo, flashback); Star-Spangled Kid (cameo, flashback); Green Arrow (Earth-2, cameo, flashback); Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (cameo, flashback)]; King Arthur (flashback); Queen Guinevere (flashback); Sir Launcelot (flashback); Sir Fallon (flashback); Blunderbore (villain, flashback); Merlin (flashback); Dr. Moresby (flashback); Mrs. Johnson (flashback); Eve Barclay (flashback)

Synopsis: The Shining Knight is sent by King Arthur to battle the ogre Blunderbore. While travelling to where Blunderbore lives, the Shining Knight frees Merlin, who gives him new armor, sword and a flying horse to use to battle evil. After defeating Blunderbore, Merlin is frozen in ice and is not awakened until the 1940's off the coast of New England.

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Pages: 22

Job Number: I-199

Notes: Origin of the Shining Knight. Based on the story in from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #66.

The First! Legends Cross-Over

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Byrne (signed)

Inker(s): John Byrne (signed)

Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman

Character(s): Magpie; Batman

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Pages: 1

The Man of Steel

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Byrne

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Superman

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): All-Star Squadroom

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Pages: 2

Job Number: L-2430

Notes: Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #57, as well as a short article on the history of the Shining Knight.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): David Rutledge; Dick Giordano

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Meanwhile...

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Pages: 1

Notes: With the DC Checklist for titles on sale the week of July 24.