Homecoming: Part 1 of 4 - Written by Jim Valentino. Art by Jim Valentino and Steve Montano. Cover by Jim Valentino and Al Williamson.
In the startling aftermath of last issue's events, the Guardians return to Earth, but they are not going to like what they find.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $1.00.
"Estranged Tales" Guest-starring the Human Torch. Script by Tom DeFalco. Pencils by Ron Lim. Inks by Jim Sanders III. Cover by Ron Lim and Jim Sanders III.
Both the Human Torch and the Amazing Spider-Man are going through rough times in their personal lives. And times like these are when super-villains like to strike! In keeping with that theory, Reynard Slinker aka Fox (last seen way, way back in Strange Tales Annual 2) plots his revenge against the two heroes that put him in prison many years ago! After meeting atop the Statue of Liberty, the torch and the wall-crawler bust into Reynard's hideout! Could this criminal caper be just the catharsis Johnny and the web-slinger need? Cameo appearances by Lyja and the "egg." Second Story: "Look Who's Back!" Script by Kurt Busiek. Art by Jan Duursema. The web-slinger tracks down stolen nuclear triggers from Empire State University! But along the way the spectacular one gets help from an undesired source…the Bobster! Cameo appearance by Roger Hochberg. (Note: The Bobster previously appeared in Web of Spider-Man 83 going by the name Hypertron.) Third Story: "Steel Spider Street Justice" Script by Eric Fein. Pencils by Mark Tenney. Inks by Keith Williams. After his girlfriend is shot, Ollie Osnick becomes the Steel Spider! First appearance of the Steel Spider. (Notes: Ollie previously appeared in Amazing Spider-Man 263 and 266. This issue is printed on glossy paper.)
64 pages Cover price $3.95.
The Sleeping, Part 2 of 3.
While searching for a way out of a strange realm between sleep and death, Batman discovers an unusual river that allows him a brief reunion with his parents, and a glimpse of the life he might have lived without the mantle of the Bat. Will the Dark Knight even want to leave this realm?
Script, art and painted cover by Scott Hampton. Miraweb Format. Cover price $1.95.
Cover pencils by Jeff Weigel, inks by Andrew Pepoy. The Last Good Deed starring Ultiman & Knight Watchman, script by Gary Carlson, pencils by Jeff Weigel, inks by Ed Quinby; Part 1 of 3
1960's World's Finest Comics tribute. The Ultimate Criminal!; Part 2 of 3; 1960's World's Finest Comics tribute. The Menace of Reverso; Part 3 of 3; 1960's World's Finest Comics tribute. Knight Watchman and The Silver-Age Shadowhawk centerspread, pencils by Jim Valentino, inks by Chris Ecker; 1960's Batman/Bob Kane tribute. Thunder Girl Meets Her Evil Imitator, script and art by Bill Fugate; 1940's Mary Marvel tribute. Tribute to Curt Swan.
36 pgs. $2.50. Cover price $2.50.
Cover art by Chris Ecker [as Tom King]. The Angry Red Aliens! starring The Silver-Age Shadowhawk and Knight Watchman, script by Chris Ecker, art by Chris Ecker [as Tom King];
1950's Bob Kane Batman tribute. Join the Junior Watchmen of America Today ad. The Zombie Crime Boss starring The Badge and his Rookie, script by Gary Carlson, pencils by Mark Lewis, inks by Jeff Meyer; 1940's Simon & Kirby Newsboy Legion and Guardian tribute. Creatures Of The Night text story starring Doctor Weird, script by Ed DeGeorge, art by Stephanie Sanderson. The Beacon, art by Golden Age Green Lantern creator Mart Nodell; 1940's Green Lantern tribute.
36 pgs. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.
Bloodshot continues to search for his past...and he's far from happy at what he finds in "Crime-Lords of Flatbush." Continued in HARD Corps (1992) #5.
Written by Kevin VanHook, with art by Don Perlin and Chris Ivy. Characters: Benito Carboni; Bloodshot; Gino Canelli; Maria; Smith; Tony Barucci. Cover by Don Perlin and Chris Ivy.
Cover price $2.25.
Bloodshot continues to search for his past...and he's far from happy at what he finds in "Crime-Lords of Flatbush." Continued in HARD Corps (1992) #5.
Written by Kevin VanHook, with art by Don Perlin and Chris Ivy. Characters: Benito Carboni; Bloodshot; Gino Canelli; Maria; Smith; Tony Barucci. Cover by Don Perlin and Chris Ivy.
Cover price $2.25.
Bloodshot returns to New York in search of the past that was stolen from him and finds himself face to face with Ax in "An Ax to Grind."
Written by Kevin VanHook, with art and cover by Don Perlin and Chris Ivy.
Cover price $2.50.
Cover art by Barry Blair. Untitled story, script and art by Barry Blair
Mydge dies and his powers go to Kiku San; Dark Prince manages to merge himself with Kaji.
36 pgs., B&W. Cover price $1.95.
Cover pencils by Stephen Bissette, inks by John Totleben. Pog, script by Alan Moore, art by Shawn McManus
Mysterious aliens crash into the Louisiana swamps--and think that they've found paradise! Walt Kelly Pogo tribute.
Reprints Alan Moore's Swamp Thing #31 in B&W. 36 pgs. $2.25. Cover price $1.95.
Cover pencils by Stephen Bissette, inks by John Totleben. The Curse, script by Alan Moore, pencils by Stephen Bissette, inks by John Totleben
Life outside of the swamp takes its toll on Swamp Thing as he journeys across America and stumbles into his bloodiest adventure; Werewolves and other creatures of the night creep about.
Reprints Alan Moore's Swamp Thing #40 in B&W. 28 pgs. $2.25. Cover price $2.25.
Story, Art and Cover by Sanpei Shirato.
Iga ninja assassins call upon a personal vendetta to ensure the death of Kamui! A genuine ninja story.
32 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.50.
Story, Art and Cover by Sanpei Shirato.
Iga ninja assassins call upon a personal vendetta to ensure the death of Kamui! A genuine ninja story.
32 pages, B&W. Mature Readers. Cover price $1.50.
By KATSUHIRO OTOMO & TAKUMI NAGAYASU.
Kill or be killed. That's a lesson young Toki just can't stomach, and his reluctance may cost him his life...and the life of Mother Sarah!
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By KATSUHIRO OTOMO & TAKUMI NAGAYASU.
Above a long-poisoned earth, the last bastion of human civilization is in exodus from orbital colonies during a terrorist attack. In the confusion, a young mother is separated from her family and flung into a bleak, uncertain future...but Sarah will not rest until she finds her children.
Cover price $2.95.
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu.
First Sarah thought the city was run by the children. Then she thought it was under the thumb of an egocentric woman named Mother. But now she has met Zaar, and she knows exactly who holds the reins to the city . . . and who will hold her own reins if she cannot escape.
48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu.
On her journey to discover her lost children, Sarah came to this city -- a city populated almost entirely by youth. She had hoped to find her own children here, to piece back together the life she had before the evacuation of the space colonies. But now, cornered by two drug-crazed rapists, she wonders if her cause is hopeless. If she'll even make it out of this city alive. If she'll ever see her children again. This is one woman's pilgrimage through the apocalypse, a pilgrimage of unending disappointment and never-ending hope; this is The Legend of Mother Sarah.
48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu.
The sinister Mother of the City of the Children is throwing a party for her charges, a great feast lubricated with forbidden liquor and illegal aphrodisiacs. But the main event -- the thing that will make the night -- is Sarah herself, as she's pitted against a bevy of drug-crazed giant men.
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu.
The Mother holds the real power in the of the City of the Children, and she would like nothing better than to see Sarah dead. But discontent is brewing amongst certain factions of Mother's soldiers, and that discontent could be the key to Sarah's escape from the City of Children!
48 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
Written by Katsuhiro Otomo. Art and cover by Takumi Nagayasu.
Sarah's prospects for finding her family have never looked dimmer than they do today. Enslaved by the City of the Children, she and the other adults are at hard labor for their youthful captors, excavating leaky canisters of deadly radioactive waste from an icebound mine. The teen-aged overseers' maltreatment of another prisoner forces her to make an impossible choice: she can turn a blind eye or she can put her own life -- and her quest -- on the line by tangling with the mysterious Mother of the City of the Children.
32 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.
