Mr. Levitz?
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I didn't even know that I had this. Found a box of half-read comics, mostly bargain bin stuff that I scrounged up when I was getting back into comics a couple of years ago. The above panel came from DC SUPER STARS PRESENTS: DEADMAN AND THE PHANTOM STRANGER, which featured a three chapter, novel-length epic of the evil of Quabal as he threatened to invade the earth plane. As the cover says: "It's 13 O'clock--Time for Mankind to Die--As the Demons Inherit the Earth!"
Anyways, the panel (with art by Romeo Tanghal and Bob Layton) features some of the DC writing corps of the era. Why the authorial insertion (that's Gerry Conway, the story's author, on the left with a particularly unsavory bit of portraiture) is a bit of a mystery. Oh, that's Martin Pasko next over, looking quite suave in a 1977 sort of way. Next to him, you guessed it. Paul Levitz, current top dog at DC. Next to him is the penciller of the story, Romeo Tanghar (who's largely unfamiliar to me.) And the woman at panel left is identified only as "Carla". Someone help me out here. I feel bad that I can't pin down a full ID, but c'est la vie.
Reading the story, though, there's precisely zero reason for these folks to be here. Sure, it was the last of the DC SUPER STARS issues, so maybe that's the reasoning (not unlike the Claremont insertion at the end of his MAN-THING run in 1980 or 1981). Perhaps the end of this little window into the DCU demanded some sort of visitation from the higher powers. Who knows. But it certainly makes for amusing blog fodder some thirty years later.
As for the comic itself, not so great. Some real wackiness, though. I love those pre-Vertigo DC magic comics a whole bunch. Sometimes for metatextual reasons (geez, Etrigan as comic relief? Zatanna's 80's costume?) and sometimes just 'cause you want to read something where no rational physical laws apply.