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Issue: All-Star Squadron #8
Publication Date: April 1982
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Issues: #8 of 67 Issues (189 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/05/1982
Volume: 2
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Title Page
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Afternoon of the Assassins!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): All-Star Squadron
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Shining Knight; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (as a giant praying mantis)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: All-Star Squadron #1 published June 2012
as All-Star Squadron #8 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-826
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Afternoon of the Assassins!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Gerry Conway ("Steel" sequence)
Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales; Don Heck ("Steel" sequence)
Inker(s): Jerry Ordway
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): All-Star Squadron
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Liberty Belle; Steel [Hank Heywood] (origin recap); Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (villain); Dr. Gilbert Giles (flashback); Major Morton; Baron Blitzkrieg (cameo); Zwerg (cameo); Gloria Giles (flashback)
Synopsis: Winston Churchill is saved from assassination by Steel during his trip to America and Canada in 1941.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: All-Star Squadron #1 published June 2012
as Afternoon of the Assassins! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Job Number: J-7958
Disclose Notes: This and the next issue incorporate pages from the never-published Steel, the Indestructible Man (DC, 1978 series) #6 re-inked, re-lettered, and partially re-drawn and re-written. Pages 1-8 are penciled by Adrian Gonzales. Pages 10, 11, 14, 15, and 17 are penciled by Don Heck. Pages 9, 12, 13, and 16 feature panels drawn by both Heck and Gonzales.

Versus Kung the Assassin from Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #238 (December 1977) and Baron Blitzkrieg. Steel the Indestructible Man is introduced into the feature. Story continues in All-Star Squadron #9 (May 1982).
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The Shining Knight; Robotman; Johnny Quick

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales
Inker(s): Jerry Ordway
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): All-Star Squadron Fact File
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Winged Victory; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: J-7958
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas [as R. T.]
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-Star Comments
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-997
Disclose Notes: Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #4.

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