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Issue: The Rook Magazine #1
Publication Date: October 1979
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Issues: #1 of 14 Issues (15 Printings)
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Variant: $1.75
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Publisher: FlagWarren
Brand: A Warren MagazineView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Warren Publishing Company
On Sale Date: 08/30/1979
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0716585730210
Price: $1.75 USD
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill DuBay (editor); Chris Adames (assistant editor)
Disclose Notes: On sale date from The Comics Reader #171, August 1979.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior with occasional color inserts
Dimensions: magazine size
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Binding: squarebound (early issues); saddle-stitched (later issues)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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FlagThe Rook #0 published June 1995 as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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The Original Master of Time

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Richard Corben (signed) (painted)
Inker(s): Richard Corben (signed) (painted)
Colorist(s): Richard Corben (signed) (painted)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Rook
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promos for Alien Invasion Comix and Movie Aliens Illustrated.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents listing, Indicia, and credits.
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The Original Master of Time Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill DuBay
Penciller(s): Lee Elias
Inker(s): Lee Elias
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Rook
Character(s): Restin Dane [The Rook]; Bishop Dane; Adam Dane; Mary Dane: Herbert; Manners: Kate McCall [Katie]; January Boone [Jan]; McQuarb
Synopsis: Restin Dane sets out to find out what became of Adam Dane, the first master of time, and travels to the future, whilst sending Bishop Dane back to 1892 to start searching from there.
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Pages: 27
Disclose Notes: Story is prefaced with a couple of paragraphs from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895). It is implied that the character Herbert is Wells himself.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Nicola Cuti; Bill DuBay
Penciller(s): Jim Janes
Inker(s): Rudy Nebres
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Buck Blaster and the Starbusters
Character(s): Buck Blaster; Hammerhead; Sally; Dick Blaster; Bloodstar; Nog
First Line: They came out of the Picadillies
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Pages: 12
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The Time to Be Forgotten!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill DuBay
Penciller(s): Jim Janes
Inker(s): Alfredo Alcala
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): The Tin Man
Character(s): Manners; Bishop Dane; Paulie McGinty; Angelo Maffi; Restin Dane
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story is printed on a heavier paper stock than the rest of the issue.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rich Margopolis
Penciller(s): Alex Niño
Inker(s): Alex Niño
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Bolt
First Line: Dad and I were working late in the lab, as usual.
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Pages: 12

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