The DC Lucky Bag - October 1976.

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DC comics are back.

But do they have much front?

Thanks to the power of television, a brand new heroine makes her debut and the world of comics will never be the same again!

Exactly what happens in this month's main strip is sketchy within my mind but I do know it's all delivered by Denny O'Neil and Dick Giordano and titled Isis... As in Crisis!

Happily, the tale also includes her origin!

That's followed by a Captain Marvel tale in which Billy Batson and his friend Whitey are filming a documentary about young adults throughout history. Except their production's soon sabotaged by Dr Sivana!

It's a long time since I visited the House of Mystery in this feature and I know little of this issue's contents but I do know its main story's a chiller called Death-Vault of the Eskimo Kings, while the second feature's known to all mankind as Tomb It May Concern.

I'm starting to think it's my month for investigating DC's long-established-but-neglected-by-me books because now I find myself looking at Detective Comics and discover that Bats must track down a villain called the Black Spider before that evildoer kills again.

Then that's followed by the Black Canary adventure A Hot Time in Star City Tonight which I believe sees the blonde bombshell up against the deadly menace of the Calculator.

From that name, I'm going to assume he's the company's equivalent of the Mad Thinker.

And it's more Batman for us when the cowled crusader investigates The Only Crime in Town!

In it, our hero investigates an actual crime-free hour in Gotham City.

Yes, only Batman would investigate a lack of crimes.

It all leads him to uncover a scheme by a mobster and two coin dealers to steal a valuable numismatic collection.

And if we can have a return to the Lucky Bag for Batman, we can also have a return for Superman.

Kicking off, our protagonist battles the Purple Pile-Driver but he also observes two boys having experiences similar to the origins of Batman and the Flash.

When Supes summons those two heroes to the scene, the boys insist it is they who are the real Batman and Flash!

Meanwhile, this month's Private Life of Clark Kent sees the reporter lumbered with the job of showing a visitor around Metropolis.

However, while doing that, he has to keep distracting the man so he can slip away and deal with whatever emergencies are befalling the world.

The sharp-eyed and elephant-memoried reader will recall that I covered this issue last month.

And that's because I failed to read the cover date properly.

So, here it is again.

And I still know little of the action within but I do know that, thanks to Martin Pasko and Ramona Fradon, Wonder Woman helps the Freedom Fighters clear their name.

I somehow also managed to include this one in September's post.

As before, the Joker's book reaches the end of its road, with its final issue seeing the clown prince of crime confront the feline femme of felony.

And it all happens because each of them has foolishly decided to kidnap the same movie star.