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Issue: All-Star Comics #71
Publication Date: March 1978
 
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Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/27/1977
Volume: 14
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041704
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #151.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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The Deadliest Game in Town!

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Subject Matter
superhero
Justice Society of America [Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Star-Spangled Kid]; Huntress [Helena Wayne]; Strike Force
Reprinting
FlagJustice Society #2 published April 2007
as The Deadliest Game in Town! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: All-Star Comics #1 published November 2011
as All-Star Comics #71 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Cover inking credit based on The Comic Reader 151 and The All-Star Companion, Vol. 3 (March 2008). Original indexer had credited Klaus Janson. Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Sable Lady

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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superhero
Batman (Earth-1); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sable Lady
Sable Lady is stealing furs and hoping to decoy the Dynamic Duo by planting false burglar alarms all over Gotham City, but they find her and foil her plans with Hostess Cup Cakes because she can't resist them.
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Inside front cover. An advertisement for Hostess cup cakes featuring DC characters and produced by DC staff.
The Deadliest Game in Town!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Justice Society of America [JSA; Star-Spangled Kid; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (cameo); The Flash [Jay Garrick] (cameo); Dr. Fate (cameo); Power Girl (cameo); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (cameo); Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders] (cameo); Dr. Mid-Nite (cameo)]; Superman (Earth-2, cameo); Jimmy Olsen (Earth-2, cameo); Inza Nelson (cameo); Huntress [Helena Wayne]; Strike Force (villains); Arthur Pemberton (villain)
The newly added member Huntress and Wildcat go off to save Star Spangled Kid from the Strike Force, who unbeknownst to Kid is being run by his evil nephew, who has taken control of the Pemberton fortune and is using it for evil means. The 3 heroes defeat Strike Force, but the Kid leaves the team, citing he needs to regain his lost fortune and identity once more.
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FlagSuperman Taschenbuch #28 published January 1980
as Das tödlichste Spiel in der Stadt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagJustice Society #2 published April 2007
as The Deadliest Game in Town! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase Presents: All-Star Comics #1 published November 2011
as The Deadliest Game in Town! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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J-5026
Story concludes from previous issue.
[untitled]

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typeset
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L-864
Volume 77 Issue 52 - Week of December 26, 1977

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