DC Special #3 Values

Publisher: DC, 1969

About DC Special #3

"Fighting Females" cover featuring Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Star Sapphire, Cheetah, and Flora. Contains a previously unpublished Golden Age Wonder Woman story with art by H. G. Peter. Neal Adams cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: All-Girl Issue

Characters: Supergirl; Wonder Woman; Black Canary; Star Sapphire; Cheetah; Flora (flower girl)

Pencils: Nick Cardy; Neal Adams (see notes)

Inks: Nick Cardy

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Notes: Original indexer credited Neal Adams on pencils but Nick Caputo believes Adams only redrew the Supergirl figure and the rest of the cover is Cardy pencils and inks.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Cheetah's Thought Prisoners

Characters: Wonder Woman; Cheetah; Steve Trevor

Pages: 13.000

Pencils: H. G. Peter (signed)

Inks: H. G. Peter (signed)

Letters: typeset

Notes: A previously unpublished story, written and drawn in the 1940s.

Title: Special Delivery Death!

Characters: Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Larry Lance; J.J. Marvin (villain, death); Nifty (villain); Bobo (villain)

Synopsis: Larry is called in to the offices of J.J. Marvin and handed an envelope, contents unknown. If he will meet Marvin at 5pm in his office, Lance will be given $1000 cash. However, Marvin is murdered right afterwards, and when the Canary rounds up the true killers, Larry is blamed for the murder by the Police.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Robert Kanigher

Pencils: Carmine Infantino

Inks: Bernard Sachs

Letters: Sam Rosen

Notes: Previously unpublished.

Title: Girl in the Golden Flower!

Characters: Flora

Pages: 5.670

Script: Gardner Fox [as Robert Starr]

Pencils: Alex Toth (signed)

Inks: Sy Barry (signed)

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Notes: Script credit verified via Julius Schwartz's records. Story page credits a "Robert Starr" which was a pseudonym Julius Schwartz used to make it look like he had more writers. (Bob Hughes via email.)

Title: The Secret Life of Star Sapphire!

Characters: Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Star Sapphire [Carol Ferris] (villain, introduction); Zamarons; Pieface [Thomas Kalmaku]; Anamede (Zamoron)

Synopsis: Zamoran warriors travel to Earth to make Carol Ferris their new queen. They turn Carol into Star Sapphire and test her by having her defeat Green Lantern.

Pages: 14.340

Script: John Broome

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Joe Giella

Letters: Gaspar Saladino

Notes: Pages 6 and 15 are 2/3-pages.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	4	3	4	15	6	11	12	6	1	0	0	69
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	4	3	6	15	7	11	12	6	1	0	0	73

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