Schedule Bimonthly Genre Superhero Number of issues 15 | Format Ongoing series Secret Society of Super Villains, Volume 2 ISBN 978-1401231101 Publisher DC Comics | |
Publication date October–November 1975 – March–April 1978 Writer(s) List
Gerry Conway, Dennis O'Neil, Steve Skeates Penciller(s) List
Ric Estrada, Arvell Jones, James Sherman, Alan Weiss Main character(s) Superman, Batman, the Flash, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Doom Patrol, the Atom Similar The Superman Family, More Fun Comics, The Brave and the Bold, Marvel Two‑in‑One, Superman | ||
Super-Team Family is a comic book anthology series published by DC Comics from 1975 to 1978 that lasted for fifteen issues. The series published a mix of original and reprinted stories.
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Publication history
Super-Team Family began publication with a October–November 1975 cover date. DC published several other ... Family titles concurrent with Super-Team Family including The Superman Family (1974-1982), Batman Family (1975-1978) and Tarzan Family (1975-1976). As a rule, DC's ... Family titles contained mostly reprints, and featured a higher page count (and higher price) than DC's normal books.
The original intention of Super-Team Family was to be a 'home' for original story team-ups without Batman, as editor Gerry Conway wrote in the letters column of issue #1. The first issue was only all-reprint due to scheduling problems, according to Conway. By issue #3 "economics had changed", and readers were informed that the series would go all-reprint with #4, edited by E. Nelson Bridwell. As of #9 the editor changed again, and Super-Team Family returned to an original-story format, with the occasional reprint seen in back-up stories.
A Creeper/Wildcat team-up in #2 and a Flash/Hawkman tale in #3 were the only new stories in the first seven issues of the title. The Challengers of the Unknown were the lead feature in issues #8-10 in a series of new stories by writer Steve Skeates and artists James Sherman and Jack Abel. Reprinted backup stories were eliminated as of #11 which saw the start of a four-issue serial written by Gerry Conway starring the Atom teaming with various other DC characters.
When Super-Team Family started to print only original work it no longer was a "... Family" title. DC management liked the sales results of later issues of the series and saw the financial advantage of lowering the page count. Rather than redefining the nature of the "... Family" titles, they opted to create a new series. Super-Team Family ended its run with issue #15 (March–April 1978), and was replaced a few months later with the Superman team-up title DC Comics Presents (July 1978).
After the cancellation of Super-Team Family, a Supergirl/Doom Patrol team-up originally scheduled to appear in the series was published in The Superman Family #191-193.
Collected editions
Part of the series has been collected as a trade paperback: