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Issue: Justice League of America #239
Publication Date: June 1985
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Issues: #239 of 261 Issues (443 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/12/1985
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.35 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #13.
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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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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Vixen; Mother Windom; General Mustapha Maksai (shadow)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In the Shadow of the Ox

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Justice League of America [Superman [Clark Kent] (leaves); Wonder Woman [Diana Prince] (leaves); Flash [Barry Allen] (leaves); Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]; Zatanna; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Steel [Hank Heywood III]; Vibe [Paco Ramone]; Gypsy [Cynthia Reynolds]; Vixen [Mari Jiwe McCabe]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (flashback cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (flashback cameo); Green Arrow (flashback cameo); Firestorm (flashback cameo); Hawkman (flashback cameo); Black Canary (flashback cameo)]; Sue Dibny; Dale Gunn; Rosita Ramone; Mother Windom; General Mustapha Maksai (villain, introduction as The Gored Ox, dies); Starro (flashback cameo); Despero (flashback cameo); Amazo (flashback cameo); Anansi the Spider
Synopsis: After Aquaman explains his decision to reform the League to Wonder Woman, Superman, and The Flash, Rosita Ramone delivers the news that General Maksai has kidnapped Mother Windom to try and force Vixen to give him the Tantu Totem. But the talisman causes a monstrous transformation in Maksai, reversed only when Vixen retrieves it and Maksai falls to his death.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman Extra #12 published January 1985
as Im Schatten des Stiers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC Retroactive: JLA - The '80s #1 published October 2011
as In the Shadow of the Ox [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
Job Number: G-1846
Disclose Notes: Credits include: "Very special thanks to Rick Hoberg for assistance on pages 19-23." Rick Hoberg confirmed via email his role, explaining he may have worked from a rough from Chuck Patton for the first page "to orient positioning and hook up to the other pages."
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Cross Swords with Champions!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (illustrations)
Editor(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for poseable action figures based on DC Comics' Warlord, Arak, and Hercules with some of their supporting characters.
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Ben Oda Remembered

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Tribute to letterer Ben Oda (c. 1916-1985).
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (logo illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-1948
Disclose Notes: Letters submitted by Michael Pickens, Danny Richani, Ryan Lee, Tony Hartgrove, and Neil Ahlquist.

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