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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published June 1982
Cover Price 0.95
Pages 100
Editing E. Nelson Bridwell

Cover Details - "Secret Origins of Super-Heroes"

Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike DeCarlo

6 page Green Lantern story "SOS Green Lantern"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (intro, origin); Green Lantern [Abin Sur] (intro)
Synopsis Hal Jordan is selected by the power ring of Abin Sur to become a Green Lantern.
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Reprints Intro and Origin of Silver Age Green Lantern.
Reprinted From Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #22 (September-October 1959)

8 page Green Lantern story "Secret of the Flaming Spear!"

Characters Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Carol Ferris (intro); Willard Ferris (intro); saboteurs (villains); Frank Nichols (Pilot)
Synopsis Saboteurs try to crash a new experimental aircraft created by Ferris Aircraft.
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Reprinted From Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #22 (September-October 1959)

24 page Inferior Five story "The Coming of the Costumed Incompetents"

Genre satire
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes 1st appearance
Reprinted from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #62 (May-June 1966)

16 page Animal Man story "I Was the Man with Animal Powers"

Characters Animal Man
Genre superhero
Script Dave Wood
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks George Roussos
Letters Stan Starkman
Notes Reprints origin & first appearance
Reprinted from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #180 (September 1965)

17 page Black Lightning story "Black Lightning"

Genre superhero
Script Tony Isabella
Pencils Trevor Von Eeden
Inks Frank Springer
Notes Reprints origin and first appearance.
Reprinted from Black Lightning (DC, 1977 series) #1 (April 1977)

24 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "And Then There Were None"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy]; Dr. Regulus
Synopsis After Invisible Kid is elected new Legion leader, the Legion performs at a charity benefit where Sun Boy is hurt and loses his memory. But it may not be an accident, but rather the work of Dr. Regulus, who has taken Legion headquarters right out of the ground. The Legionnaires trace their purloined headquarters to Dr. Regulus' spaceship, but it takes Sun Boy to bring him down.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes origin of Sun Boy
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #348 (September 1966)