Saturday, September 19, 2020

Zatanna: The Murray edition

Murray Comics' Zatanna one-shot issue was published 15 September 1982:


The cover originally appeared on DC Comics' The Brave and the Bold #169, December 1980.

The contents:

Angel of Mercy, Angel of Death!, originally published in The Brave and the Bold #169, December 1980

The Night It Rained Magic!, originally published in DC Comics Presents #18, February 1980

The Song the Shrieker Sang, originally published in World's Finest Comics #274, December 1981

[Soul Shriek!], originally published in World's Finest Comics #275, January 1982

Zatanna [Untitled], originally published in World's Finest Comics #276, February 1982

[Doppelganger], originally published in World's Finest Comics #277, March 1982

Dog Day Afternoon, originally published in World's Finest Comics #278, April 1982

The Key Crisis of the One-Man Justice League!, originally published in Justice League of America #191, June 1981

The Song the Shrieker Sang and Soul Shriek! are presented as a single story. The splash page to Soul Shriek! is omitted, as is the 'next issue' blurb at the end of Shrieker Sang.

Similarly the two stories from World's Finest Comics #'s 276-277 are presented as a single story with only a proxy eponymous story title, the splash page to Doppelganger also omitted.

Dog Day Afternoon is modified differently. Here's scans of the first two pages of the story as per World's Finest Comics #278:



And here's the modified title page in the Murray edition:


The date designated above is based on a copy I spotted with a price sticker on the cover with 15/9 written on it. By my reckoning the $0.95 cover price Murray issues ended August 1982, so Zatanna would be among the earliest of the $0.99 issues.


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