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Issue: DC Special Series #21

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Publication Date: April 1980

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Issues: #21 of 27 Issues (32 Printings)

Title: Super-Star Holiday Special

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/06/1979

Volume: 4

Pages: 68

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893216404

Price: $1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: Indicia reads: "Super-Star Holiday Special, Spring, 1980. (DC Special Series, Vol. 4, No. 21)." Cover date: April.

On sale date from the 1979 Library of Congress copyright records (cocatalog.loc.gov). Date given as December 6 in Comics Journal #51, DC Coming Attractions #37, and a house ad in Superman #345. Date given as December 4 in Comic Reader #175.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S. (#1-17, 20-22); digest (#18, 19, 23, 24); tabloid (#25-27)

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-17, 20-22, 25-27); squarebound (#18, 19, 23, 24)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Content Items
- Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]9
- Star Light, Star Bright... Farthest Star I See Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]4

reprinted 13 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (9 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery, superhero, war, western

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Superboy [Clark Kent]; Wildfire; Phantom Girl]; Jonah Hex; Sgt. Rock; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Cain; Abel; Mildred

First Line: Join the world's greatest heroes in quest of a dream!

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-263

Notes: Letters credits from http://kleinletters.com/.

Introductory Page

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Sgt. Rock; Jonah Hex; Superboy [Clark Kent]

First Line: The midnight sky is an infinite tapestry, woven with pinpoint patterns of stars that shine in eternal profusion--

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Pages: 1

Job Number: J-6477

The Fawn and the Star

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Subject Matter

Genres: western

Character(s): Jonah Hex; Woodson Hex (flashback); Virginia Hex (flashback); Holly; Roy (a raccoon); Barlow Tull; Homer Tull

First Line: He was a hero to some, a villain to others... and wherever he rode, people spoke his name in whispers.

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Pages: 10

Job Number: J-6348

Notes: Set during Christmas.

Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Matty Lasko; Boomer Katz; Mister Jackson; "Fats" Morgan; Al; Louie

First Line: Christmas Eve in Gotham: First, a layer of pale snow had touched the city, and now sleet slants across the streets from the North...

Synopsis: Batman stops a mob from stealing the day's receipts from a department store with the help of Boomer Katz, a paroled robber, and the light from a Nativity star.

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Lynvingen #12/1980 published January 1980
as Etterlyst: Julenissen...død eller levende [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Läderlappen #12/1980 published December 1980
as Fånga Jultomten - död eller levande [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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The Super Heroes v2 #3 published December 1981
as Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white

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Batman Sonderheft #28 published January 1982
as Nikolaus gesucht: Tot oder lebendig ! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Supermann #11/1987 published December 1987
as Og alle hjerter gleder seg [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation

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Christmas with the Super-Heroes #1 [Direct] published January 1988
as Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]recolored

In Content Item: Flag

The Complete Frank Miller Batman #1 published January 1989
as Wanted: Santa Claus--Dead or Alive [Story on Interior Page(s)]recolored

In Content Item: Flag

Super-Team #5/1992 published January 1992
as Efterlyst: Jultomten - Död eller levande [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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A DC Universe Christmas #[nn] published January 2000
as Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 10

Job Number: J-6360

Notes: Set in Gotham City at Christmas Eve.

Hawkman Makes a Safe Landing

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Hawkman

First Line: A perfect morning for sky diving...

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Pages: 1

The House of Mystery

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Cain; Abel; Mildred; Mordred; Cynthia; Destiny; Phantom Stranger; Madame Xanadu

First Line: I don't see him, guys!

Synopsis: The hosts of The House of Mystery, The Witching Hour, and Secrets of Haunted House compete to tell the best holiday-themed twist-ending story.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-6368

The Longest Night!

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Subject Matter

Genres: war

Character(s): Sgt. Rock; Bulldozer; Mario Rosetti

First Line: I'm Rock... Sergeant... Easy Company! Easy'd been in the line so long we didn't know what day, week or month it was!

Synopsis: Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. try to protect worshipers headed to the Shrine at Santa Maria.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Set in Italy at Christmas.

Star Light, Star Bright... Farthest Star I See Tonight!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Phantom Girl [Tinya Wazzo]; Mon-El; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Karate Kid [Val Armorr] (cameo); Sun Boy [Dirk Morgna] (cameo); Princess Projectra (cameo); Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle] (cameo); Colossal Boy [Gim Allen] (cameo); Wildfire [Drake Burroughs]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]]

First Line: The year is 2979 A.D., the city is Metropolis, the planet Earth. And the flying figure is, of course, Superboy, breaking the time barrier to visit the most extraordinary band of heroic youths in the galaxy...

Synopsis: Superboy convinces the Legion of Super-Heroes to go searching for the star that shown over Bethlehem during Jesus' birth on Christmas Eve.

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In Content Item: Flag

The Best of DC #11 [Direct Sales] published April 1981
as Star Light, Star Bright... Farthest Star I See Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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The Super Heroes v2 #3 published December 1981
as Star Light, Star Bright... Farthest Star I See Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white

In Content Item: Flag

Christmas with the Super-Heroes #1 [Direct] published January 1988
as Star Light, Star Bright... Farthest Star I See Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

A DC Universe Christmas #[nn] published January 2000
as Star Light, Star Bright... Farthest Star I See Tonight! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 12

Job Number: J-6346

Volume 79 Issue 48 - Week of December 3, 1979

In-house Column on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Scalphunter; Bob Rozakis; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen

First Line: Scalphunter flees rebels

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promo for Weird Western Tales (DC, 1972 series) #65 with illustration from this issue's cover (by Dominguez). Promo for Warlord (DC, 1976 series) #31. Direct Currents: On Sale Week of December 17th. Ask the Answer Man! with questions from Holden McCormack, Mark Freedman, Jim Cloufel, Scott Smith, Craig Paeth, Cliff Timberlake, Paul Hoffman, John Boodey, Paul Sternberg, Brian S. Lamken, Jerry McKeen, and 1 unsigned. Hembeck's comic strip with Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.