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Issue: Lancelot Strong, The Shield #1

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Publication Date: June 1983

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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: Red Circle Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Red Circle Productions Inc.

On Sale Date: 03/1983

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.25 CAD
$1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Robin Snyder (Editor); Richard Goldwater (Editor-in-Chief)

Notes: Snyder credit per Gary Usher's Robin Snyder Comic Book List. On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #21.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; Baxter paper interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Alan Weiss (signed)

Inker(s): John Severin (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Shield

Character(s): Shield [Lancelot Strong]; Dr. Laureen Smith; Negatron

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Crusader Chronicles

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): David M. Singer

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Introduction to the character. Located on this inside front cover.

The Deathstar Dilemma

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Timmons; Rich Buckler

Penciller(s): Alan Weiss

Inker(s): Sam de la Rosa

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Victor Gorelick

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Shield

Character(s): Shield [Lancelot Strong]; General Smith; Dr. Laureen Smith; Negatron [Dr. Collins] (also called Deathstar in #3 and later)

Synopsis: The Shield faces Negatron, a Soviet spy turned into a living black hole.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 19

Notes: Develops from the setting in The Double Life of Private Strong.

Star-Spangled Readers!

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robin Snyder

Penciller(s): Alex Toth (cover reproduction)

Inker(s): Alex Toth (cover reproduction)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Black Hood

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Pages: 2

Notes: Includes a cover reproduction of Black Hood #1 (Red Circle, 1983)

Steel Sterling Faces the Man Mountain of Muscle Men: Humongous

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Timmons; Rich Buckler

Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales

Inker(s): Rudy Nebres

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Rod Ollerenshaw

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Steel Sterling

Character(s): Steel Sterling; Police Sgt. Steven Behler; David Wagner; "Chip" Carson; Gayla; Humongous; Dr. Reese

Synopsis: As two movie producers consider using Steel in a movie, Steel hunts down a man-monster named Humongous.

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Pages: 10

[untitled]

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Alan Weiss (signed)

Inker(s): Alan Weiss (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Shield

Character(s): Shield [Lancelot Strong]; Dr. Laureen Smith

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Pages: 1

Notes: The back cover looks like an out-take of the front cover.