Comic Title: All-Star Squadron #38
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1984
On Sale Date: July 26, 1984 Newsstand Date July 26, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #5

Newsstand Date July 26, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #219

Newsstand Date July 26, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #51

Shipping Date July 3, 1984
Source: Comic Reader, #219

Shipping Date July 3, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #5

Shipping Date July 3, 1984
Source: Comics Journal, #91

Copyright Date July 3, 1984
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1984
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date July 3, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #51

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

Title: "Detroit Is Dynamite"
Pages: 20

Feature(s):
All-Star Squadron (of Earth-2)

Writer: Roy Thomas
Penciller: Rick Hoberg
Inker: Bill Collins
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: David Cody Weiss
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Feature Character(s)

• All-Star Squadron (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #37; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Commander Steel (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #32; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #50)
• Robotman (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #32; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Liberty Belle (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #35; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Johnny Quick (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #35; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Firebrand (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #35; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Tarantula (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #32; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #41)
• Hourman (last appearance in Adventure Comics #77; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Hawkman (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #37; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #37; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)

Supporting Character(s)

• Gernsback (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #32; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #53)

Villain(s)

• Real American (a robotic Klansman; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Members of the Phantom Empire (a white supremicist group; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Two unnamed bank robbers (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Amazing-Man (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #27; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #39)
• Gloria Giles (now Gloria Farley; last appearance in All-Star Squadron #13; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Bailey (a WKNY news reporter; last appearance in All-Star Squadron #18; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (in a newsreel)
• Ultra-Humanite (in a newsreel)
• Cyclotron (in a newsreel)
• Justice Society of America (in a newsreel)
• Sandman (in a newsreel)
• Adolf Hitler (in a newsreel)
• General Douglas MacArthur (in a newsreel)
• Deathbolt (in a newsreel)
• Doctor Fate (in a newsreel)
• Spectre (in a newsreel)
• Atom (in a newsreel)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (in a newsreel)
• Starman (in a newsreel)
• Wonder Woman (in a newsreel)
• Johnny Thunder (in a newsreel)
• Captain Marvel (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #37)
• Captain Marvel, Jr. (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #37)
• Mary Marvel (in flashback to All-Star Squadron #37)

Comments:
This issue contains a three-page Golden Age Gallery feature with artwork by Marshall Rogers.

The All-Star Special, a modified fighter plane, used for transporting the Squadron debuts in this story.

This story, which takes place in late February, 1942, continues in All-Star Squadron #39.

Synopsis:
After defeating two bank robbers with the help of Robotman, Commander Steel learns that the husband of his former fiancee, Gloria Giles, has been captured by the Nazis. He pays her a visit and reveals his identity to her, then promises to find her husband.

At All-Star Squadron headquarters, the All-Star’s watch a newsreel of current events in order to bring the recently returned Hourman up to date. Green Lantern and Hawkman arrive with another reel of race wars raging in Detroit, and the attempted murder of Will Everett, Amazing-Man. The team races to Detroit to help prevent further rioting.