Comic Title: All-Star Squadron #62
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1986
On Sale Date: July 24, 1986 Newsstand Date July 24, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #29
Dates lists as shipping July 24th/August 21st are erroneous
The listed shipping date should be the release date

Newsstand Date July 24, 1986
Source: House Ad, Hawkman #3, Page IBC

Newsstand Date July 24, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #97

Shipping Date July 1, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #109

Copyright Date July 1, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date July 1, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #97

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "The Origin of the Shining Knight"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
All-Star Squadron (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Tony DeZuniga
Letterer: David Cody Weiss
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• All-Star Squadron (no appearance)
• Shining Knight (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in All-Star Squadron #62; next appearance in Young All-Stars #2)

Villain(s)

• Blunderbore (an ogre; in flashback to the sixth century; no further appearances)
• Two rogue knights (in flashback to the sixth century; no further appearances)
• A gang of museum robbers (Joe and Charlie named; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Winged Victory (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in All-Star Squadron #62; next appearance in Young All-Stars #2)

Other Character(s)

• King Arthur (in flashback to the sixth century; next appearance in Swamp Thing #87)
• Merlin (in flashback to the sixth century; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #87)
• Lancelot (in flashback to the sixth century; name spelled Launcelot; no further appearances)
• Knights of the Round Table (in flashback to the sixth century; Fallon, Lucan, Gawaine, and Bors named; no further appearances)
• Dr. Moresby (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Guinevere (in flashback to the sixth century; next appearance in Swamp Thing #87)
• Eve Barclay (daughter of a museum benefactor; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Johnson (a housekeeper; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Shining Knight (earliest chronological appearance; during the days of Camelot; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #62)
• Winged Victory (earliest chronological appearance; during the days of Camelot; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #62)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Hawkman (pictured as a future teammate of the Shining Knight)
• Firebrand (pictured as a future teammate of the Shining Knight)
• Star-Spangled Kid (pictured as a future teammate of the Shining Knight)
• Green Arrow (erroneously pictured as a future teammate of the Shining Knight; see comment below)

Comments:
This story reveals the post-Crisis origin of the Shining Knight. The All-Star Squadron does not appear as this story takes place before the team was founded.

The framing sequence of the story, detailing Justin's arrival in modern times, takes place circa June, 1941. The flashback (pages 3-12 – circa 6th century A.D.) shows Sir Justin frozen in ice during his battle with Blunderbore.

This story is an adaptation of the second story of Adventure Comics #66.

At the conclusion of the story four All-Star Squadron members are pictured as future teammates of the Shining Knight. Green Arrow is included among them, but in post-Crisis continuity, there was no Golden Age Green Arrow. His depiction here is erroneous.

Synopsis:
Sir Justin, a new knight in the sixth century court of King Arthur, is given the task of killing Blunderbore, an ogre responsible for the death of Sir Fallon. During his journey to find the ogre, Sir Justin releases Merlin from a spell that had imprisoned him. Merlin rewards Justin by enchanting his armor, sword, and steed. Merlin also possesses knowledge that Justin will soon find himself in the 20th century.

Sir Justin continues his quest mounted upon his newly winged horse, Victory. He fights Blunderbore in the icy north, but falls from a cliff after delivering the fatal blow to his opponent. Sir Justin and Victory become frozen in the ice, kept preserved in suspended animation.

Centuries later Dr. Moresby, a museum curator, discovers Sir Justin inside an iceberg floating off the New England shore. He frees the knight and brings him to his museum in New York. Justin is amazed by the advances present in the 1941 museum. He takes a job as Moresby's assistant, calling himself Justin Arthur.

When crooks rob the museum, Justin dons his magical armor, which Merlin has made bulletproof, and pursues them mounted on Winged Victory. Sir Justin captures the crooks, beginning his career as the Shining Knight.