Coverage of DC Comics' cover-price increase; Gary Groth's first interview with Gil Kane; reviews of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Allegro Non Troppo; the first ever "Blood and Thunder" letters column; and much more!

150 issues later, in The Comics Journal #188, Kim Thompson wrote "In January 1978, when I held the first printed copy of The Comics Journal #38 in my hand, I thought it was one of the greatest magazines ever published. I still do." Read the rest of his review here.

Named one of the "Top 10 All-Time Issues of The Comics Journal" by the Love & Maggie blog — click here to read their exhaustive, annotated breakdown of the contents of the issue. And here's another examination of the issue by Tucker Stone at The Factual Opinion.

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