Category: All-Star Comics
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Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Jerry Serpe (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) Last issue, writer Paul Levitz found a Hallmark moment amid the chaotic infighting of quinquagenarian white male superheroes and their surrogate daughter (Power Girl), whom they all berate or dismiss. Sole exception: Dr. Fate; respect. Though maybe…
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Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Elizabeth Safian (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) This issue’s writer Paul Levitz’s magnum opus on the book so far. It’s an action-packed issue—most of the pages are just Justice Society members fighting, whether amongst themselves in the Batcave (holy set-piece, Batman!) or against the…
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Writer Paul Levitz makes a twelfth-level intelligence move with this issue; it’s not a great script—Wildcat’s “docks” accent is forever obnoxious—and the stakes are haywire, but the reveal is about the only way All-Star could move forward. Psycho-Pirate has been micro-dosing the Justice Society with negativity for ages. How long? Long enough to cover all…
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For this issue of “your favorite Golden Age superheroes hate working with each other and helping people in general,” the bickering is once again the main plot. The story opens with Power Girl trying to convince Wildcat and Star-Spangled Kid to investigate a giant hole in the Earth where the supervillains were suspiciously hanging out.…
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Paul Levitz (script) Joe Staton (pencils) Bob Layton (inks) Elizabeth Safian (colors) Joe Orlando (editor) If I take back the things I said about Wally Wood being mid last issue, can he come back retroactively and save me from Joe Staton and Bob Layton? We can keep Paul Levitz finding his sexism towards Power Girl…
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Paul Levitz, Paul Kupperberg (script) Wally Wood (pencils, inks, plot) Al Sirois (inks) Elizabeth Safian (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) I spoke too soon. Paul Levitz is back to solely dialogue this issue, with artist Wally Wood contributing to the plot. Presumably, then, it was Wood’s idea to do this issue of The…
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Paul Levitz (dialogue, co-plot) Wally Wood (pencils, inks, co-plot) Al Sirois (inks) Elizabeth Safian (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Joe Orlando (editor) Wally Wood takes over the full art duties and eighty-sixes Power Girl’s cleavage window, making All-Star immediately feel a little more grown-up. Helping set it back—writer Paul Levitz now makes special time to gripe…
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Gerry Conway (editor, plot) Paul Levitz (assistant editor, script) Keith Giffen (layouts) Wally Wood (pencils, inks) Al Sirois (inks) Carl Gafford (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Jack C. Harris (assistant editor) If the scripter weren’t Paul Levitz, I’d almost wonder if he were making fun of (plotter and editor) Gerry Conway’s take on All-Star to this…
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Gerry Conway (editor, script) Keith Giffen (layouts) Wally Wood (pencils, inks) Al Sirois (inks) Carl Gafford (colors) Ben Oda (letters) Paul Levitz (assistant editor) Writer Gerry Conway likes deus ex machinas so much, he flies one in on a spaceship for this issue. The issue’s got multiple comes and goings, like there was only so…
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Gerry Conway (editor, script) Keith Giffen (layouts) Wally Wood (pencils, inks) Al Sirois (inks) Ben Oda (letters) Paul Levitz (assistant editor) It’s a few weeks after last issue (and adventure) and the doldrums of being a superhero have sunk in. The issue opens on a rainy day at the JSA brownstone, with Power Girl challenging…
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Gerry Conway (editor, script) Paul Levitz (assistant editor, plot assist) Ric Estrada (pencils) Wally Wood, Al Sirois (inks) Ben Oda (letters) All-Star slightly improves from last time, mainly because Wildcat has fewer opportunities to be a sexist prick. There’s a huge one at the beginning, so much of one the Flash comments on it (internally)…
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Gerry Conway (editor, script) Ric Estrada (pencils) Wally Wood, Al Sirois (inks) Ben Oda (letters) Paul Levitz (assistant editor) The issue opens with the JSA reading their email—no joke—and an anonymous sender telling them there will be disasters in three major cities: Seattle, Capetown, and Peking. The heroes split into pairs to investigate. Seattle is…
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