The Comic Reader #172 was published by Street Enterprises on September 1, 1979, as part of a series that began in 1961. Chuck Fiala and Jim Engel write, and art comes from Enrique Badia Romero, Gil Kane and John Burns. It features Superman, Billy Batson, Woody Woodpecker, Modesty Blaise and Swamp Thing, among 7 characters cataloged on VerseDB.