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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published April 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Len Wein; Mike W. Barr (associate)

Cover Details - "Afternoon of the Assassins!"

Characters All-Star Squadron [Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Shining Knight; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (as a giant praying mantis)
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)

24 page All-Star Squadron story "Afternoon of the Assassins!"

Characters All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Liberty Belle; Steel [Hank Heywood] (origin recap); Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Winston Churchill; Kung (villain); Dr. Gilbert Giles (flashback); Major Morton; Baron Blitzkrieg (cameo); Zwerg (cameo); Gloria Giles (flashback)
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas; Gerry Conway ("Steel" sequence)
Pencils Adrian Gonzales; Don Heck ("Steel" sequence)
Inks Jerry Ordway
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters John Costanza
Notes Versus Kung the Assassin from Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #238 (December 1977) and Baron Blitzkrieg. Steel the Indestructible Man is introduced. This and the next issue incorporate pages from the never-published Steel, the Indestructible Man (DC, 1978 series) #6 re-inked, re-lettered, and partially re-drawn and re-written. Story continues in All-Star Squadron #9 (May 1982).

1 page All-Star Squadron story "Fact File"

Characters All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Winged Victory; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Adrian Gonzales
Inks Jerry Ordway
Colors Carl Gafford?
Letters typeset
Notes Fact File Page

1 page All-Star Comments letters page

Script Roy Thomas
Letters typeset
Notes Includes letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #4