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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1981
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Len Wein; Mike W. Barr (associate)

Cover Details - "Who Will Be the Heroes of the..."

Characters All-Star Squadron [Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite; Atom [Al Pratt]]; Wildcat [Ted Grant] (photo); Shining Knight (photo); Green Arrow (Earth-2, photo); Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers] (photo); Batman (Earth-2, photo); Robin (Earth-2, photo); Star-Spangled Kid (photo); Stripesy (photo); Vigilante [Greg Sanders] (photo); Crimson Avenger (photo); Spectre [Jim Corrigan] (photo); Plastic Man (photo); Robotman [Robert Crane] (photo); Dr. Fate (photo); Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (photo); Liberty Belle (photo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (photo); Tarantula (photo); Superman [Earth-2] (photo); Flash [Jay Garrick] (photo); Wonder Woman [Earth-2] (photo); Captain Triumph (photo)
Genre superhero
Pencils Rich Buckler
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Inks credit from The All-Star Companion Vol. 2; inks previously credited to Rich Buckler.

24 page All-Star Squadron story "The World on Fire!"

Characters All-Star Squadron [Plastic Man; Dr. Mid-Nite; Atom [Al Pratt]; Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Liberty Belle; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Robotman [Robert Crane]]; Justice Society of America [JSA; Superman (Earth-2); Batman (Earth-2); Robin (Earth-2); Dr. Fate; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Starman [Ted Knight]; Johnny Thunder (Earth-2); Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Wonder Woman (Earth-2); Flash [Jay Garrick]] (flashback); Seven Soldiers of Victory [Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Crimson Avenger; Star-Spangled Kid; Green Arrow (Earth-2)] (flashback); Shining Knight; Winged Victory; Firebrand [as Danette Reilly] (intro); Per Degaton (villain); Professor Zodiak (villain); Solomon Grundy (villain); Sky Pirate (villain); Wotan (villain); King Bee (villain, death); Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (apparent death); Harry Hopkins; Slugger Dunn (apparent death); Sammy Baugh; Ed Simmons; J. Edgar Hoover; Tubby Watts; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Rich Buckler
Inks Jerry Ordway
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters John Costanza
Notes Pres. Roosevelt forms the All-Star Squadron. Features the apparent death of Rod Reilly (Firebrand) and the intro of his sister Dannette, soon to be the new female Firebrand. Story continued from Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #193 (August 1981); story continues in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #2 (October 1981)

1 page letters page "An Open Letter to the Readers of All-Star Squadron #1"

Script Roy Thomas
Letters typeset