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Issue: The Rovers #5
Publication Date: January 1988
 
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Publisher: FlagMalibu Comics
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Indicia Publisher: Malibu Graphics Inc
On Sale Date: 1988
Volume:
Pages: 36
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Price: $2.95 CAD
$1.95 USD
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Content Items: 12 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
science fiction
Enemy Nine
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[untitled]

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Enemy Nine
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Inside front cover. Title page and credits. Includes an illustration taken from one of the panels in the main story.
History Is Made at Night

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Special Ed (also in flashback); Cinderella Kid (also in flashback); Enemy Nine [Edmund Brightcap] (flashback); Scofflaw (flashback); Phantom Ace [Lt. Robert Evans] (flashback); Red Rover (flashback); Roger Carlson (flashback); Gordon Worton (flashback, death); Reptilia (flashback); Ralphie (flashback, death); Tortuga Brothers (flashback)
It was a blizzard so bad even the E.B.S. "Happy News" couldn't ignore it.
Origin of the characters coming together as The Rovers.
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Solo Ex-Mutants #1 Erin, Alone

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superhero
Erin
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1
Full page ad for Solo Ex-Mutants #1.
Empire

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science fiction
Can a 14 year-old boy overthrow the corrupt monarchy of an entire planet and reclaim his grandfather's throne?
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House ad for Empire #1.
The Liberator

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The Liberator
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House ad for the Liberator series.
Boris the Bear

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humorous
Boris the Bear
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Ad for Boris the Bear #14
Dinosaurs for Hire

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Archie; Reese; Lorenzo
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House ad for Dinosaurs for Hire #1.
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House ad for the new Wild Knights series.
Scarlet in Gaslight

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horror, mystery
Dracula
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House ad for Scarlet in Gaslight
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adventure, humorous
Apache Dick; Jerry Foster; Willy Foster
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Inside back cover. House ad for The Trouble with Girls #7.
The Trouble with Girls

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adventure, humorous
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Back cover. House ad for The Trouble with Girls series.

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