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Issue: All-Star Squadron Annual #3
Publication Date: September 1984
 
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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: 05/22/1984
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 CAD
£0.45 GBP
$1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (editor); Janice Race (associate editor); Tom Condon (managing editor); Dick Giordano (executive editor)
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office as 22 May 1984 was found in the Public Catalog, Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) online (http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First) retrieved 15 August 2015. Registration date: 13 September 1984. Copyright registration number: TX0001420212.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior (#1 - 2); mando interior (#3)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Rick Hoberg (signed)
Jerry Ordway (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron [JSA [Superman [Kal-L]; Batman (Earth-2); Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Wonder Woman (Earth-2); Flash [Jay Garrick]; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]]]; Ian Karkull (villain)
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Roy Thomas (plot, writer); Dann Thomas (plot, researcher)
Jerry Ordway (pages 1-4, 40-41); Rick Hoberg (pages 4, 6-12, 35-39); Rich Buckler (page 5); Wayne Boring (pages 13-16); Richard Howell (pages 17-18); Carmine Infantino (pages 19-21); Don Newton (pages 22-24); Mart Nodell (pages 25-27); George Perez (pages 28-30); Keith Giffen (pages 31-34)
Jerry Ordway (pages 1-4, 13-16, 28-30, 40-41); Bill Collins (pages 4-12, 35-39); Richard Howell (pages 17-18); Frank Giacoia (pages 19-21); Mike Machlan (pages 22-24); Joe Giella (pages 25-27); Keith Giffen (pages 31-34)
Gene D'Angelo
David Cody Weiss [as Cody]; L. Lois Buhalis
Subject Matter
superhero
All-Star Squadron
All-Star Squadron [Tarantula; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Justice Society of America [Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Johnny Thunder; Sandman [Wes Dodds]; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-L]; Batman; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Thunderbolt; Hourman [Rex Tyler]]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lois Lane; Joan Williams; Robert Cummings; Ian Karkull (main villain); Doctor Doog (villain); Catwoman (villain); Sieur Satan (villain); Alexander the Great (villain); Lightning Master (villain); Wotan (villain); Zor (villain); Tarantula (villain); Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Dwight Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; unknown future president (death)
Midnight in Manhattan-- Late February 1942...
Tarantula and Wonder Woman use her magic sphere to view an early Justice Society case, before Wonder Woman arrived in Man's World, where the JSAers disrupted a plot of Ian Karkull's to murder the next nine future presidents and Franklin Delano Roosevelt on June 28, 1941, though neither the JSAers nor Tarantula and Wonder Woman know why Karkull targeted the men. The JSAers successfully protected seven of the men, but Green Lantern was unable to protect the eighth due to his ring's weakness against all things made of wood.
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Dann Thomas is credited as "researcher" in the credits, but as "co-plotter" in All-Star Companion Volume Two. It is unclear precisely which pages Bill Collins inked, but it is likely he inked at least Rick Hoberg's pages and possibly Rich Buckler's page. It is also possible that Mike Machlan, Frank Giacoia, or Joe Giella may have inked additional pages beyond those for which they are specifically credited.

The story is arranged like a Golden Age JSA tale in that the team appears together at the beginning and end, but split up as individual characters or two-member teams in intermediate chapters.

The vitality of the JSAers and their associates into their old age is explained in this story as a side effect of being bathed in the time rays of Ian Karkull's shadow energy. At the end of the story, Green Lantern resigns as chairman and becomes an honorary member to deal with his guilt over being unable to save a child and Hourman takes a leave of absence to deal with his Miraclo addiction, with Starman suggesting himself as his replacement. Dr. Fate also fears being possessed by Nabu though his helmet, foreshadowing his change to his half-helmet in More Fun Comics #72, All-Star Comics #8, and All-Star Squadron #23.

The story was thoroughly researched for historical accuracy to determine precisely where the next eight Presidents after FDR were on June 28, 1941.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Roy Thomas
typeset
Subject Matter
All-Star Squadroom
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Follows page 9 of sequence 1. Normally a letters column, this issue has an article by Thomas.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Greg Potter
Gene Colan
Klaus Janson
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Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Jemm, Son of Saturn
Jemm; Luther Mannkin
The Planet Earth...
Luther Mannkin encounters an alien.
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Promo insert which includes two pages from Jemm, Son of Saturn (DC, 1984 series) #1, on glossy paper. Not in all copies.

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