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Issue: Justice League of America #173
Publication Date: December 1979
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Issues: #173 of 261 Issues (443 Printings)
Title:
Variant: DC Logo
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/11/1979
Volume: 20
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893055512
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #172.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age, then Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; mando (beginning with #254)
Binding: saddle-stitched (#s 39, 48, 58, 67, 76, 110-116, 200 squarebound)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Justice League of America
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce]; Primak; Human Starburst; Swashbuckler
First Line: We want you on the team, Black Lightning!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-196
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Testing of a Hero!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Justice League of America
Character(s): Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Zatanna; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]]; Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce] (guest star); The Regulator [Barnabas Boulton] (villain); Inspector Henderson
Synopsis: Green Arrow wants the League to admit Black Lightning, but the others are unconvinced, so they devise a test in which Leaguers will pretend to be supervillains that Black Lightning must defeat. Black Lightning passes the test but refuses the offer of admission.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGerechtigkeitsliga #11 published January 1980
as Die Prüfung eines Helden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: J-6127
Disclose Notes: Zatanna masquerades as Prymak, Green Lantern as the Human Starburst, Flash as the Trans-Visible Man, and Green Arrow as Swashbuckler.
Story continues in #174.
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Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman
Synopsis: A space shuttle cannot be reached by radio signal, so Wonder Woman leaves them a trail of Hostess Fruit Pies to guide them back to earth.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement in sequential art form.
Copyright © 1979 Continental Baking Company
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (logo illustration)
Inker(s): ? (logo illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (logo illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-395
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Nick Janikides, Matt Jones, Don Jackson, and Seth Spivak.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Job Number: F-111
Disclose Notes: Part of "The DC Feature Page."
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Number 52 Todd Klein

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): Todd Klein
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Script credit suggested by Michael Catron.

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