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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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.
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6 comments:

  1. Rip JaggerJanuary 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM

    I had this one back in the day, but I had forgotten its contents. Thanks for the pleasant time trip. My fave is Joe Staton's work of course.

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  2. McSCOTTYJanuary 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM

    As you know I'm a bit of a Neal Adams fan Kud and love most of his stuff , including this one . I wasn't aware of this comic in 1977 although was surprised to find out how many DC Special Series" comics I have or had.

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  3. McSCOTTYJanuary 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM

    Actually Joe Statons strip was the only one I read in full when I read looked at this comic again after so many years, his style is easy on the eye

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  4. KidJanuary 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM

    Actually, now that I think of it, there was a DC mag called Four Star Spectacular, featuring Superboy and other strips. I wonder if the 5 Star one 'evolved' from the earlier title?

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  5. McSCOTTYJanuary 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM

    I forgot about that comic, I 'm not sure how many issue "4 Star" ran for, but I think I have a couple of issues in a box in the loft .

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  6. KidJanuary 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM

    I think I've got five of them, but like you, I don't know how long it ran for.

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