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Cover: Ross Andru & Dick Giordano

DC Comics Presents #31

Mar 1981 · DC · 0.50 USD
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“The Deadliest Show on Earth!”

Superman and Robin — the Man of Steel and the Teen Wonder — find themselves squaring off against a very dangerous circus in this 1981 team-up, with the cover by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano throwing the duo right into the thick of it: Superman grapples with a knife-throwing strongman while Robin leaps into action above him, surrounded by a menacing clown, a fire-wielding acrobat in white, a top-hatted ringmaster, and other deadly performers outside a circus tent. Robin's battle cry — "Let's go, Superman! We'll beat them at their own game!" — captures the spirit of two heroes refusing to be the show's next act. As a bonus, a "Super-Hero Update" teaser at the bottom corner asks the intriguing question: whatever happened to Robotman?

writer Gerry Conway · writer Roy Thomas · artist José Luis García-López · inker Dick Giordano · colorist Jerry Serpe · letterer Ben Oda · cover Ross Andru, Dick Giordano

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writer Roy Thomas
colorist Jerry Serpe
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils Ross Andru
cover inks Dick Giordano

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Dick is enjoying a day at the circus until he realizes something is wrong when he encounters his old friend Waldo the clown but Waldo does not recognize him. Robin investigates and discovers that most of the circus workers are being hypnotically controlled by a mystery villain, who is also controlling Superman!

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