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Issue: All-Star Squadron #40
Publication Date: December 1984
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Issues: #40 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: 09/04/1984
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (editor); Janice Race (associate editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
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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
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Amazing Man vs. Real American

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Arvell Jones (signed)
Inker(s): Aubrey Bradford (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): All-Star Squadron
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Amazing-Man; Robotman [Robert Crane] (photo); Liberty Belle (photo); Hourman [Rex Tyler] (photo); Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (photo)]; Real American
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A portion of the cover from All-Star Squadron #39 is used as a newspaper photograph in the background.
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The Rise and Fall of the Phantom Empire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Richard Howell
Inker(s): Bill Collins
Colorist(s): Gene D'Angelo
Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss [as Cody]
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): All-Star Squadron
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Hourman [Rex Tyler]; Amazing-Man; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Real American (villain); Monitor (cameo); Lyta [Harbinger] (cameo); The Phantom Emperor (villain)
Synopsis: The Squadron faces off vs. the "Real American," who is destroyed and revealed to be an android. The true face behind the racist group is revealed. He then calls up the Monitor to ask for a replacement for the android, but is refused.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Job Number: G-1542
Disclose Notes: Conclusion of the Real American story-line which uses racism in World War II-era Detroit as a springboard. Story continues from the previous issue.

Non-advertised, pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series, three-panel-sequence-cameo with The Monitor (only hand, shown with voice) and Lyta.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): All-Star Squadroom
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-1755
Disclose Notes: Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #35.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Sal Amendola
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Meanwhile...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Golden Age Gallery

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Joe Staton (signed)
Inker(s): Bob Layton (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Justice Society of America
Character(s): Justice Society of America [JSA; Atom [Al Pratt]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Wonder Woman (Earth-2)]; Adolf Hitler
Synopsis: Pinup of Golden Age JSA members breaking through a wall to rescue a bound Wonder Woman from a pistol-wielding Adolf Hitler.
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From Content Item: FlagThe Amazing World of DC Comics #16 published December 1977
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Pages: 2

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