Comic Title: DC Super Stars #8
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1976
On Sale Date: July 22, 1976 Newsstand Date July 22, 1976
Source: Direct Currents, Amazing World of DC Comics #12

Newsstand Date July 22, 1976
Source: Comic Reader, #132

Copyright Date July 22, 1976
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1976


Newsstand Date July 19, 1976
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 76 #11
Listed as on sale the week of July 19th

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: E. Nelson Bridwell

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Great Plutonium Plot"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Space Ranger

Plotter: Gardner F. Fox
Scripter: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: Bob Brown

Reprinted From:
Showcase #15 (1958)

Feature Character(s)

• Space Ranger (Rick Starr; next appearance in Showcase #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Cryll (an alien shape-shifter; next appearance in Showcase #15)
• Myra Mason (Rick Starr's secretary; next appearance in Showcase #15)

Villain(s)

• Zandor (a renegade scientist; no further appearances)
• Jarko (a Jovian space pirate; no further appearances)
• Gurph (a Martian raider; no further appearances)
• Zandor's gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Thaddeus Starr (Rick's father; next appearance in Showcase #16)

Synopsis:
Space Ranger investigates a series of plutonium thefts. He traces one stolen shipment with a radioactive chemical. When Space Ranger confronts the thieves, he is captured and brought to the gang leader, Zandor. The renegade scientist has invented a teleportation device powered by plutonium. When Zandor leaves to help steal another batch, Cryll rescues Space Ranger. Space Ranger and Cryll then subdue Zandor and his men, then turn the teleportation device over to the authorities.