Super-Team Family

Super-Team Family is an 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.

Publication history

Super-Team Family began publication with an Octoberâ€"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.

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 (Marchâ€"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.

The issues

Collected editions

• Secret Society of Super Villains Vol. 2 includes Super-Team Family #13-14, 328 pages, May 2012, ISBN 978-1401231101

References

External links

• Super-Team Family at the Comic Book DB
• Super-Team Family at Mike's Amazing World of Comics