All-Star Squadron, #5 Newsstand
Published: January 1982
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"Lady Liberty becomes a battleground for..."
Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Firebrand [Danette Reilly]
- Robotman [Robert Crane]
- Hawkman [Carter Hall]
- Dr. Mid-Nite
- Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]]
- Nazis (villain)
Credits
- Pencils: Rich Buckler
- Inks: Romeo Tanghal
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
The black arrow on the cover was originally meant to read "Introducing FIRE-BRAND! The hottest new heroine of all!" Chemical Color, DC's color separators, misplaced the extra words. (Roy Thomas promised the responsible party would be replaced as well.) The letters page in the next issue talks about the error and includes an image of how the arrow was supposed to read.
Never Step on a Feathered Serpent!
Storyline
The All-Star Squadron travel to Mexico to search for the missing Shiera Sanders.
Characters
- All-Star Squadron [Firebrand [Danette Reilly] (intro as Firebrand)
- Dr. Mid-Nite
- Starman [Ted Knight]
- Hawkman [Carter Hall]
- Atom [Al Pratt]
- Johnny Thunder (Earth-2)
- Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
- Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
- Dr. Fate
- Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (flashback)
- Hawkgirl [as Shiera Sanders]
- Shining Knight
- Winged Victory]
- The Feathered Serpent (villain)
- General Saukel
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (flashback)
- Slugger Dunn (flashback)
- Firebrand [Rod Reilly] (flashback)
Credits
- Script: Roy Thomas
- Pencils: Rich Buckler
- Inks: Jerry Ordway
- Colors: Carl Gafford
- Letters: Ben Oda
Story Notes
Danette Reilly becomes the new Firebrand. Per Roy Thomas, he considered using the Quality Comics character Wildfire, but likely decided to create a sister for Rod Reilly to take over the Firebrand name in part because of the Legion of Super-Heroes character by that name. (Suggested by Anthony William Durrant via the GCD Error Tracker.) Story continues in part from All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #4 (December 1981); story continues in All-Star Squadron (DC, 1981 series) #6 (February 1982)
Credits
- Script: Roy Thomas
Story Notes
Letters reviewing All-Star Squadron #1 from [Mike Gallagher](https://www.comics.org/creator/9267/), Shepherd Siegel, [Steven Utley](https://www.comics.org/creator/12570/), [Jerry Bails](https://www.comics.org/creator/6324/), and Andrew MacLaney.