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Issue: All-Star Squadron #40

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Publication Date: December 1984

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Issues: #40 of 67 Issues (189 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/27/1984

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893111112

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

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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2 All-Star Squadron #40 [Direct]

All-Star Squadron #40 [CA Cover Price]

All-Star Squadron #40 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (5 total)

Amazing Man vs. Real American

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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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Pages: 1

Notes: A portion of the cover from All-Star Squadron #39 is used as a newspaper photograph in the background.

The Rise and Fall of the Phantom Empire!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, superhero

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); Lyla [Harbinger] (cameo); The Phantom Emperor (villain)

First Line: Thar she blows, Lantern-- Detroit!

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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Pages: 21

Job Number: G-1542

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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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): All-Star Squadroom

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-1755

Notes: Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #35.

Letters from Dale M. Houstman, Jay Elliott, Jr., and David Newman.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Golden Age Gallery

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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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Pages: 2