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Issue: ORBiT #2
Publication Date: January 1990
 
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Publisher: FlagEclipse
Brand: Eclipse Books
Indicia Publisher: Eclipse Books
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN: 156060039X
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.95 CAD
$4.95 USD
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Content Items: 13 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Individual stories have different editor credits. No publication date in comic; indexed date from copyright notice. Davis Publications, Inc. is the publisher of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; glossy paper
Binding: squarebound
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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science fiction
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Cover art is unrelated to interior stories. Cover is an homage to "Nighthawks," a famous 1942 painting by Edward Hopper.
T able O f C ontents

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Inside front cover B&W indicia/credits page. No series title in indicia.
ORBiT

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Title page. Indexed series title is from this page.
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Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.
Windwagon Smith and the Martians

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
historical, science fiction
Thomas Smith; Moohay Nillay
A Victorian "windwagon" inventor is transported to Mars and challenged to a "windwagon" race.
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Flag2000+ #8/1991 published October 1991
as Windwagon Smith och Marsianerna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Adaptation of a 1989 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.
Silent Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Stella Angela Kelly [Angel Star]; Robert [Robbie]; Jan Van Der Meer; Bailey
A UN peacekeeper pilot tries to prevent a war between Eritrea and Sudan.
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Adaptation of a 1987 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
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Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.
Marooned Off Vesta

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Warren; Shea; Mike Brandon
Survivors of a spaceship crash try to land their ship on an asteroid.
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Adaptation of Isaac Asimov's first published short story. Original prose story first published in 1938.
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Colour Eclipse Books back issue list for "graphic albums".
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Colour subscription ad for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.
W hat's N ext: O rbit #3

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Inside back cover B&W page listing the contents of the next issue in this series.
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Back cover of comic. Illustrated with art from page 40 of this issue.

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