The DC Lucky Bag - May 1976.

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To be honest, not a lot leaps out at me from DC's comics bearing the cover date of May 1976.

However, the ones below seem more noteworthy than some.

Can it be? Can Hawkman now have the ability to fling his lower arms at everyone?

It surely can when a malfunction in the League's new teleport merges him, the Flash and an alien called the Dharlu into one being!

As for the popularity of this mag, the GCD informs me that this month's sales statement puts the average number of copies sold during the preceding 12 months at 166,000, and that the number reported for the issue nearest the filing date is 173,117.

And it seems Hawkman's not the only one losing body parts, because, now, Superman's joined in.

I know few details of what's occurring inside but it seems the man of steel must face several of his greatest foes, thanks to Xviar's master plan, in The Double-or-Nothing Life of Superman!

Not that I know who Xviar is.

I can report the average circulation for this comic is 644,000, with the most recent recorded issue coming in at 578,311.

Can it be curtains for the world's fastest human?

It seems so because the Mirror Master's used his mesmerising looking glasses to make the hero think he's a crook.

Thus, the Flash commits several robberies before someone called Dexter Myles shows him he's wrong to believe in his own light-fingered nature.

In red-hot back-up action, the Green Lantern's chasing the Ravagers who attempt to destroy the sun of another world but Greenie soon foils them by using a spaceship's nuclear reactors to ramp up the fusion activity of that sun.

When it comes sales, circulation is reported at an average of 169,000 per issue, with the most recent recorded issue achieving a figure of 166,866.

I know little of this one, other than that the adventure it contains is called Tarzan and the Champion: Conclusion which, to the shock of perhaps no one, seems to have been adapted from Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan and the Champion.

Sadly, I have no sales data to report.

Possibly, sales data is difficult to collect in the jungle.

We all like a special.

And this is a special.

Gasp as giant super-powered insects invade the Earth and it starts to look like even Superman can't stop them!

That's followed by the Green Lantern who, in an attempt to dodge a marriage proposal, creates a menace which then goes on a rampage!

That's followed by something called The Big House of Monsters!

And all of these tales are reprinted from the 1960s.

Meanwhile, the mag finishes off with a drama called The Marvel Family Reaches Eternity, as reprinted from the distant days of 1946.

However, that's not all we encounter, because, within this book, is also contained a two-page article called What Were the Dinosaurs?

And our answer is provided by none other than E. Nelson Bridwell himself.

It's another one I know little of.

But I do know its 18-page thriller is called Welcome Back to Life... Steve Trevor! and is brought to us by Martin Pasko and José Delbo.

I can shed no light upon whether the shock does indeed kill Wonder Woman.