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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published May 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Len Wein; Mike W. Barr (associate)

Cover Details - "Ring of Fire... Ring of Fear!"

Characters All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Atom [Al Pratt]; Liberty Belle; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Hawkwoman [Shiera Sanders]; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Steel [Hank Heywood]]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks Joe Kubert (signed)

26 page All-Star Squadron story "Should Old Acquaintance Be Destroyed..."

Characters All-Star Squadron [Shining Knight; Firebrand [Danette Reilly]; Robotman [Robert Crane]; Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Hawkgirl [Shiera Sanders]; Steel [Hank Heywood]]; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Winston Churhill; The Butcher (flashback); Baron Blitzkrieg (villain, apparent death); Zwerg; Adolf Hitler (flashback); Kung (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 Story continued from All-Star Squadron #8. This issue incorporates pages from the never-published Steel, the Indestructible Man (DC, 1978 series) #6 re-inked, re-lettered, and partially re-drawn and re-written. Steel first assumes the code name Commander Steel (per Anthony Durrant, 9/25/2006).