Dates
- Cover date
- October-December 1969
- On sale
- August 14, 1969
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
DC Special 5 (Facsimile Edition) (2026). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- The Cartoonist -- At Home! · 4 pages
A day in the life of a harried cartoonist / editor and his family.
- Eyes of a Blind Gunner · 12.67 pages
When a grenade blinds Jackie and injures Wild Man's hands, they help each other out in order to stay alive. Wild Man becomes Jackie's eyes while Jackie becomes Wild Man's hands.
- Rider of the Winds! · 8 pages
In the Old West, Young Eagle Feather is disgraced when Black Lightning, a mountain lion, kills five of his sheep. He's sent to battle the lion in order to regain face in the tribe, and is helped by Godfather, a mighty eagle
- To the Readers... · 1 pages
- Menace of the Matter Master! · 12 pages
Hawkman and Hawkgirl are plagued by a series of bizarre crimes from a new criminal called the Matter-Master, who has invented a wand made of Mentachem, an element that allows him to control inanimate matter as long as it is in its purest form.
- #9 [The Seven Soldiers of Victory] · 1 pages
A brief history of the Seven Soldiers of Victory.
- Threat of the Ice King · 13 pages
On his quest to complete the Twelve Tasks of Thor, Jon and the Mute Bard enter the Ice King's frozen domain. He must "awaken a rose"? He fights a two-headed bear, sails down a waterfall, fights snowmen - all traps of the frosty Ice King. In a high castle he climbs a "vine" of Rapunzel-like hair and finds a sleeping beauty holding a rose. A kiss breaks the trance. Jon is frozen by the Ice King, but turns a ruby into a burning ray. The Ice King falls. The Fourth Task of Thor is accomplished.
Reprinted in
DC Special 5 (Facsimile Edition) (2026)