Favourite Covers: 5 Star Super-Hero Spectacular - Neal Adams

I picked up this issue of DC's "5 Star Super Hero Spectacular" a few years ago solely for the Neal Adams cover thinking this was an all reprint issue (despite clearly noting otherwise on the cover) featuring golden and silver age classics. However , this was of course an all new (in 1977) comic and was the first issue of what would be a DC umbrella title (DC Special Series) for one -shot and special issue published between 1977 and 1981. Regardless, this is one of my favourite DC and Neal Adams covers.

Above the contents page to this issue. As can be seen in the indicia the title "DC SPecial Series" only appears here. In addition none of the comics published under this title were numbered and appeared in different formats including digests, Dollar Comics, 48 page giants and treasury editions. Below are some of the splash pages for the strips in this pretty decent comic:

Above probably the best strip in this issue featuring Mike Nasser (now Mike Netzer) doing his best Neal Adams style art.