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Issue: Steel Sterling #5

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Publication Date: March 1984

Issue #5
- Shield - Steel Sterling
- #4
- ✓ #5
- #6
- #7
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Detail

Issues: #5 of 4 Issues (10 Printings)

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Variant: Canadian

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

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Indicia Publisher: Archie Enterprises Inc.

On Sale Date: 1984

Volume: 2

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0271000693303

Price: $1.00 CAD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; baxter paper interior (issue 4); newsprint interior (issues 5 to 7)

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Steel Sterling #5 [Direct]

Steel Sterling #5 [Canadian]

Steel Sterling #5 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Notes: published under the imprint "Archie Adventure Series"

Under The Gun! / Steel Shavings

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Both column titles are used on this page. The letters page continues later in this book.

Too Easy Too Kill

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): ? [as BTO]

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, drama

Feature(s): Young Steelers

Character(s): Young Steelers [Asa; Wong; Red Wing; Carmen; April]; Crazy Horse (historical flashback); Arthur (flashback from last issue); Georgie (dressed up as General Custer)

Synopsis: The bus stops in Little Big Horn for the night. Red Wing is kidnapped after leaving a local store by someone dressed as General Custer. He takes Red Wing to the site of the Little Big Horn Battle, intending on recreating the battle with a much different result.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Highlighting Red Wing of the the Young Steelers. The splash page was originally intended for the cover. It was drawn by Carmine Infantino and Eduardo Barreto and written by Robin Snyder.

Wooden You Know?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Count Dracula

Character(s): Count Dracula

Synopsis: Dracula leaves a hotel quickly when a busboy delievers him a rare "steak".

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Pages: 1

Sent to the Showers

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Synopsis: When a rainstorm hits, Little Archie tries to convince his baseball teammates that its just a light sprinkle instead of a downpour.

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Pages: 1

The Scent of Blood

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): ? [as S. Gneiss] (credited)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ms. Samson (first name 'Sheba' revealed in this story); Gayla; Rita; The Young Steelers [Asa; Wong; Carmen; Red Wing; April]; Honcho; an unnamed Indian shaman

Synopsis: 4 prison inmates break out of prison and go on a shooting spree. They attack the bus, wounding Steel and forcing everyone off in the desert before taking the bus. Steel and Ms. Samson journey acrossed the desert to get the bus back, with Steel nearly dying from his wounds in the process.

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Pages: 15

Steel Shavings

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Appears between pages 10 and 11 of the previous sequence. Kanigher replies to letters per Robin Snyder.