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Issue Details

Issue #502
Published August 1983
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.25 USD
Pages 100
Editing Nicola Cuti

Cover Details - "Dream Girl -- Mystic or Monster?"

Characters Dream Girl; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Star Boy; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Lightning Lad; Lightning Lass
Genre superhero
Pencils Ed Hannigan (signed)
Inks Klaus Janson (signed)

8 page Plastic Man story "Boy, that Plastic Man is somethin' else!"

Characters Plastic Man; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Terry Cotta; Trowel [Mason Stucko]; Cindy Block; Brickface
Synopsis Plas and Woozy investigate the murder of Alonzo Van Rivett.
Genre superhero
Script Martin Pasko
Pencils Joe Staton
Inks Bob Smith
Letters Ben Oda
Editing Len Wein (original story)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #470 (April 1980)

9 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Renegade Super-Hero!"

Characters Superboy; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Lightning Lad; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Element Lad; Proty II; Colossal Boy (cameo); Lightning Lass (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo)
Synopsis Ultra Boy is revealed to be an escaped convict and flees the Legion.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Editing Mort Weisinger (original story)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 (January 1964)

10 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The End of a Super-Traitor!"

Characters Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Element Lad; Invisible Kid; Proty II
Synopsis Ultra Boy's criminal past is revealed to be a ruse, so that he could infiltrate a pirate band.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Editing Mort Weisinger (original story)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 (January 1964)

6 page Captain Marvel story "The Human Hawks"

Characters Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Dudley Wright
Synopsis Captain Marvel must rescue explorer Dudley Wright from the Hawkmen, a band of winged humans in the Himalayss.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck
Editing Wendell Crowley (original story)
Reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #143 (April 1953)

22 page The Spectre story "The Parchment of Power Perilous"

Characters The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Narkran; Carstagg Mob
Synopsis The Spectre carelessly injures a human, and is set up to be punished in later stories.
Genre superhero; occult
Script Steve Skeates
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Murphy Anderson
Letters Jerry Grandenetti
Editing Julius Schwartz (original story)
Reprinted from Spectre, The (DC, 1967 series) #8 (January-February 1969)

16 page Aquaman story "Can This Be Death?"

Characters Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera; Ocean Master
Synopsis The Ocean Master tries to warn Aquaman just before the Sea King is teleported to an alien world.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Skeates
Pencils Jim Aparo
Inks Jim Aparo
Letters Jim Aparo
Editing Dick Giordano (original story)
Notes Aparo draws panel on pg 11 using most of the names of DC staffers as part of the background.
Reprinted from Aquaman (DC, 1962 series) #50 (March-April 1970)

7 page Zatanna story "Zatanna, the Magician"

Characters Zatanna; Zatara; Jeff Sloane; Justice League of America [Hawkman; Elongated Man; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Batman](all in cameo flashback)
Synopsis An unseen villain gains control of Zatara and forces him to send Zatanna and Jeff into another dimension.
Genre occult; superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Gray Morrow
Inks Gray Morrow
Editing Joe Orlando (original story)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #413 (December 1971)

9 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Menace of Dream Girl!"

Characters Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Triplicate Girl; Bouncing Boy; Dream Girl (applicant); Rann Antar (applicant)
Synopsis Dream Girl joins, causes Lightning Lass to lose her powers, and has Lightning Lass and Triplicate Girl expelled.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Editing Mort Weisinger (original story)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #317 (February 1964)

9 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Doom of the Legion!"

Characters Dream Girl; Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Lightning Lass [becomes Light Lass]; Chameleon Boy (cameo)
Synopsis Dream Girl has more Legionnaires expelled, in order to prevent her prediction of their deaths. The prediction proves false, Dream Girl leaves and the others are reinstated. She has also altered Lightning Lass's powers to the ability to make things super-light.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Editing Mort Weisinger (original story)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #317 (February 1964)

1 page text article "The Story Behind the Stories"

Script Paul Levitz
Letters typeset
Notes Levitz discusses the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue.

1 page Aquaman; Captain Marvel; The Spectre; Zatanna; Plastic Man illustration

Characters Aquaman; Billy Batson; Captain Marvel; Spectre; Zatanna; Jeff Sloane; Plastic Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Howard Bender (signed)
Inks Larry Mahlstedt (signed)
Notes back cover