DC Super Stars was a comic book

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 anthology

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 series published by DC Comics

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 from March 1976 to February 1978. Starting off as a reprint

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 title, it finished its run with original stories. A recurring feature of the title's early run was "DC Super-Stars of Space", special issues reprinting Silver Age

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 science-fiction stories starring such characters as Adam Strange

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, Hawkman

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, the Atomic Knights, Space Cabbie

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, Captain Comet

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, Tommy Tomorrow

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, the Star Rovers

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, and Space Ranger

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The series' middle period was marked by theme issues — Aquaman

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, heroes with guns, sports, magic-users — until issue #12, which heralded the title's second original story, featuring Superboy

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. From that point until DC Super Stars was cancelled after issue #18, the series contained new stories about a range of different characters (some being showcased for their own titles), as well as a collection of "secret origin" stories. The Bronze Age

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 Huntress

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 made her first appearance

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 in DC Super Stars #17 (November/December 1977) in a story written by Paul Levitz

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 and drawn by Joe Staton

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 and Bob Layton

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See also

• Four-Star Spectacular
  Four-Star Spectacular
  Four-Star Spectacular was an anthology comic book series published by DC Comics in the mid-1970s. The series was edited by E. Nelson Bridwell and ran for six issues from March/April 1976 to January/February 1977. The books were in the "giant size" format and consisted mostly of superhero reprints,...
  
  
• DC Special Series
  DC Special Series
  DC Special Series was an umbrella title for one-shots and special issues published by DC Comics between 1977 and 1981. Each issue featured a different character and was often in a different format than the issue before it. DC Special Series was published in four different formats: Dollar Comics, 48...
  
  
• DC Special
  DC Special
  DC Special was a comic book anthology series published by DC Comics originally from 1968 to 1971; it resumed publication from 1975 to 1977...
  
  
• List of DC Comics publications

External links

• DC Super Stars at the Grand Comics Database
• DC Super Stars cover gallery
• "Scott’s Classic Comics Corner: DC Super-Starsgazing" Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (July 2009) at Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources
  Comic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...
  
  
• "Dial B For Blog" #310 Focus on the Superboy story in DC Super Stars #12