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Issue: All-Star Squadron #66

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Publication Date: February 1987

Issue #66
- #56
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- #58
- #59
- #60
- #61
- #62
- #63
- #64
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Issues: #66 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: 11/27/1986

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893111102

Price: $0.75 USD

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 (creative editor); Greg Weisman (assistant editor)

Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #33.

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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 #66 [Direct]

All-Star Squadron #66 [CA Cover Price]

All-Star Squadron #66 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (5 total)

The Origin of Tarantula

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Arvell Jones (signed)

Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): All-Star Squadron

Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Tarantula; Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (inset)]

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Pages: 1

The Origin of Tarantula!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Penciller(s): Alan Kupperberg

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 [Tarantula (origin); Liberty Belle (cameo, flashback); Robotman [Robert Crane] (cameo, flashback); Shining Knight (cameo, flashback); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (cameo, flashback); Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (flashback); Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers] (cameo, flashback); Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (cameo, flashback); Commander Steel (cameo, flashback)]; Dian Belmont (flashback); Olga; Ace-Deuce (flashback, villain); Pugs O'Bannion (flashback, villain); Budd Abbott; Lou Costello; Louis Calhern; Humphrey Bogart; James Cagney; Ronald Reagan; Fiorella LaGuardia; Bob Hope; Lucille Ball; Desi Arnaz; Errol Flynn; Edward G. Robinson; Jimmy Durante; Clark Gable

Synopsis: Jonathan Law, a famous writer of detective novels, is inspired to become a mystery man.

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Pages: 21

Notes: The Origin of Tarantula, re-told from Star Spangled Comics (DC, 1941 series) #1. Includes an encounter with the Simon and Kirby Sandman, which shows the similarity between their two costumes and Tarantula deciding to change his.

Superman's Other Creators

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

Credits

Writer(s): Dick Giordano

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Meanwhile...

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Pages: 1

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Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Eduardo Barreto (signed)

Inker(s): Eduardo Barreto (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Hawkman

Character(s): Hawkman [Carter Hall]

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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-2594

Notes: Includes a short article on the history of Tarantula, as well as letters reviewing All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #61.