STEEL, THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN #1 – KEY ISSUE – DON HECK COVER – 35 CENT – 1978

STEEL, THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN #1 – KEY ISSUE – DON HECK COVER – 35 CENT – 1978

MARCH 1978

1^ST APPEARANCES – Commander Steel, Origin of Steel, Gloria Giles, Gilbert Giles, Baron Death

CHARACTERS – Steel (Hank Heywood), Baron Death, Adolf Hitler, Commander Steel, Gilbert Giles, Gloria Giles

STORYLINE – From Hell Is Forged…A Hero!

First appearance of the original Steel, grandfather of the second Steel and Citizen Steel.

The book is an origin story of Steel in 1939 before America enters into war during World War II (WWII). As a civilian Hank goes to Germany and sees a Jewish man receive a beating and fears that the old man was later killed after he left.

When he arrives back to the States, he finds that Germany has invaded Poland and he leaves Princeton to join the United States Marines. His girlfriend Gloria Giles is against his decision and leaves him for that decision, but it is soon after entering the war that that he is blown up trying to stop some saboteurs.

PUBLISHER – DC COMICS

WRITER – Gerry Conway

INTERIOR ART – Don Heck

COVER ART – Don Heck

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