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Issue: All-Star Squadron #62
Publication Date: October 1986
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Issues: #62 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: 07/01/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (creative editor); Greg Weisman (assistant editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #29.
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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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The Origin of the Shining Knight!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Tony DeZuñiga
Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Tales of the All-Star Squadron
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight]; Merlin (background)
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Pages: 1
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The Origin of the Shining Knight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Tony DeZuñiga
Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Tales of the All-Star Squadron
Character(s): All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight (origin); Winged Victory; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (cameo, flashback); Star-Spangled Kid (cameo, flashback); Green Arrow (Earth-2, cameo, flashback); Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (cameo, flashback)]; King Arthur (flashback); Queen Guinevere (flashback); Sir Launcelot (flashback); Sir Fallon (flashback); Blunderbore (villain, flashback); Merlin (flashback); Dr. Moresby (flashback); Mrs. Johnson (flashback); Eve Barclay (flashback)
Synopsis: The Shining Knight is sent by King Arthur to battle the ogre Blunderbore. While travelling to where Blunderbore lives, the Shining Knight frees Merlin, who gives him new armor, sword and a flying horse to use to battle evil. After defeating Blunderbore, Merlin is frozen in ice and is not awakened until the 1940's off the coast of New England.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: I-199
Disclose Notes: Origin of the Shining Knight. Based on the story in from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #66.
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The First! Legends Cross-Over

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Byrne (signed)
Inker(s): John Byrne (signed)
Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman
Character(s): Magpie; Batman
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Pages: 1
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The Man of Steel

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Byrne
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superman
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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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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2430
Disclose Notes: Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #57, as well as a short article on the history of the Shining Knight.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): David Rutledge; Dick Giordano
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Meanwhile...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: With the DC Checklist for titles on sale the week of July 24.

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