Issue | #C-54 |
Published | 1978 |
Frequency | quarterly |
Cover Price | 2.00 USD |
Pages | 76 |
Editing | Joe Orlando |
Characters | Superman; Wonder Woman; Uncle Sam (as a picture in the background) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (signed) |
Inks | Dan Adkins (signed) |
Colors | Tatjana Wood |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino ? |
Notes | The colorist credit is from the About the Creators text article in this issue. "Bob LeRose assembled the covers." The picture of Uncle Sam in the background is "based on the classic World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg." |
Characters | Superman; Wonder Woman |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (signed) |
Inks | Dan Adkins (signed) |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Same picture as the cover, only in black and white and there's no picture of Uncle Sam. Located on the inside front cover. |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson |
Synopsis | Superman saves a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific from an attack by a Japanese submarine and a fleet of Japanese Zeroes. Then Superman asks the Admiral about the Manhattan Project. The Admiral then has Superman meet with the Secretary of War for more information. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gerry Conway |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Jerry Serpe |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Per the opening paragraph, this part of the story takes place on June 10th 1942, on the island of Midway during World War II. |
Characters | Wonder Woman [Yeoman Diana Prince]; Albert Einstein; Colonel Steve Trevor; FBI agent J.B. Michaelson; Professor H. Andrews |
Synopsis | Wonder Woman stops a group of Nazi Suicide bombers from kidnapping a scientist, then stops their leaders when they assault Albert Einstein. When she tries to explain it to her boss, he says the FBI deny anything like that happened. Doing more digging on her own, Diana discovers the agent and the professor are working on something called "Project Manhattan." |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gerry Conway |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Jerry Serpe |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Characters | Baron Blitzkrieg; Sumo the Samurai |
Synopsis | As instructed by the Emperor of Japan, Sumo the Samurai joins Baron Blitzkrieg in interrogating a captured United States scientist about the Manhattan Project. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gerry Conway |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Jerry Serpe |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Characters | Wonder Woman [Yeoman Diana Prince]; Queen Hippolyta; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White |
Synopsis | As Yeoman Diana Prince, Wonder Woman breaks into a vault in the War Department and steals a file on the Manhattan Project. She is horrified at what she reads and seeks counsel from her mother on Paradise Island. As Clark and Lois return from Midway to finish their story, Perry tells them that Chicago is being attacked by Wonder Woman! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gerry Conway |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Jerry Serpe |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Characters | Superman; Wonder Woman; Sumo the Samurai; Baron Blitzkrieg |
Synopsis | Superman flies to Chicago to reason with Wonder Woman, but she decided to eliminate all nuclear weapons no matter who gets in her way. As they battle, they realize that fighting in the city will just get someone hurt. They decide to continue their battle on the moon. Simultaneously, the Baron is poised to attack the Manhattan Project research center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee while Sumo gets ready to attack the Manhattan Project research center in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Both are stealing the two halves of a nuclear reactor. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gerry Conway |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Jerry Serpe |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Characters | Superman; Wonder Woman; Sumo The Samurai; Baron Blitzkrieg; Zwerg; Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson; President Franklin Roosevelt |
Synopsis | Realizing that Earth is trouble, Superman and Wonder Woman cease their battle and return to Earth. There they split up to find the 2 halves of the reactor: Wonder Woman faces Sumo in Japan and Superman hunts down Baron Blitzkrieg. The two heroes defeat the villains and bring them and the 2 halves of the reactor to a small island. Using his powers, the Baron activates the two halves. When Superman tries to look at it with his x-ray vision, the reactor becomes an atomic bomb. Both Sumo and the Baron fight each other for the weapon and both supposedly perish when it detonates. The heroes return to Washington D.C. where President Roosevelt assures both heroes that the United States would never use the bomb to kill anyone. Satisfied, the heroes take their leave. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Gerry Conway |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Jerry Serpe |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Characters | Joe Orlando (photo); Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (photo); Gerry Conway (photo) |
Script | Mike Gold |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Article and brief biographies on the creators. Includes pictures of Joe Orlando, Gerry Conway, and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Located on the inside back cover. |
Characters | Superman; Wonder Woman; Uncle Sam (as an image on a poster) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez |
Inks | Dan Adkins |
Colors | Tatjana Wood |
Notes | A picture of Superman and Wonder Woman battling in Washington D.C. Located on the back cover (but not wraparound). Colorist credit from the About the Creators text article (where it says that Tatjana Wood "colored the covers"; plural). |