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Issue: All-Star Squadron #62
Publication Date: October 1986
 
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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: 07/24/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893111110
Price: $1.00 CAD
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)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #29.
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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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The Origin of the Shining Knight!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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superhero
Tales of the All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight]; Merlin (background)
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The Origin of the Shining Knight

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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superhero
Tales of the All-Star Squadron
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)
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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Origin of the Shining Knight. Based on the story in from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #66.
The First! Legends Cross-Over

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superhero
Magpie; Batman
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The Man of Steel

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typeset
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[untitled]

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typeset
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All-Star Squadroom
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Includes letters from Stan Brown, Andy Sved, Greg Schienke, Daniel C. Patri, Brian Cook, and Tim Richards 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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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
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