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Issue: Americomics #1
Publication Date: April 1983
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAC
Brand: ACView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Americomics
On Sale Date: 01/1983
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 CAD
$2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Bill Black
Disclose Notes: On-sale date, month only, from Amazing Heroes #18.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy (Hudson paper)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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First Issue! / Starring The Shade

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): George Pérez (signed)
Inker(s): George Pérez (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): George Pérez
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Feature(s): The Shade
Character(s): The Shade; Rea Williams
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The World's Smallest Comic Company

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introduction to the Americomics line (later renamed AC). Article details some never-published features intended for this book: A book-length Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) story by Rik Levins, a story by Leo Laney introducing Ms. Blue Beetle, a Captain Atom story by Ben Smith and Dan Reed, and Magniton the Magnetic Man by June Brigman. The first three stories were not published due to DC acquiring the rights to the Charlton heroes. Another feature intended for Americomics, Astron (art by June Brigman), was eventually published in Venture (AC, 1986 series) #1.
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Dream Walker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Penciller(s): Bill Black (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Black (signed)
Colorist(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): Bill Black
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Feature(s): The Shade
Character(s): Rea Williams; Roger Brant (The Shade); Chen Lo (priest & mystic); Thurston Lahr (drug lord)
Synopsis: After soldier Roger Brant loses the use of his legs in Viet Nam, mystic Chen Lo teaches him to unleash the powers of his mind & astral form to become The Shade. Back in America, he enters the dreams of Rea Williams, who plans to murder the man responsible for her brother's drug-related death.
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In Content Item: FlagDarkshade #1 published August 2004
as Dream Walker [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: The Shade created by Martin Greim & Bill Black, partly inspired by the Golden Age SANDMAN as done by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. Retelling of stories from PARAGON SUPER HEROES #1 and PARAGON #3 (Paragon, 1971). Original version reprinted in FANDOM'S FINEST COMICS VOL.2 (Hamster Press, 1998).
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Together Again For The First Time!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Greg Guler
Inker(s): Bill Black
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The New Sentinels Of Justice
Character(s): Blue Beetle; Captain Atom; Nightshade; The Question
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad / SENTINELS OF JUSTICE featuring the Charlton "Action Heroes".
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THE SLAYER

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Craig Zablo
Penciller(s): John Beatty
Inker(s): Jerry Ordway
Colorist(s): John Beatty
Letterer(s): Jerry Ordway
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Slayer
Character(s): Jon Nyte / Jonathan Knight (The Slayer); Captain Scott (police officer); Black Starr
Synopsis: Jon Nyte, intergalactic policeman ("Slayer") from the planet Toru, is assigned to Earth and takes the guise of a police officer in NYC.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The Slayer created by John Beatty & R.E.M. Clements.
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Gulacy Galaxy Gal

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Paul Gulacy (signed)
Inker(s): Paul Gulacy (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Star Fems
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad / "Galaxy Gal" STAR FEMS cover / poster. Gulacy did quite a few covers for AC around this time.
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Next Issue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jerry Ordway (signed); Rik Levins
Inker(s): Jerry Ordway (signed); Willie Blyberg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): The Messenger; Frank Taveras; The Shade
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad / AMERICOMICS #2
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"OCEANUS ONE"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Black
Penciller(s): Bill Black
Inker(s): Bill Black
Colorist(s): Bill Black
Letterer(s): Bill Black
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom and the Liberty Corps
Character(s): Phineas Crump; Commodore Faraday; Dr. Yuri Gargovich; Captain Freedom; The Hood (villain); The Liberty Corps
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In Content Item: FlagDarkshade #1 published August 2004
as Oceanus One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: 4-page preview; includes upcoming cover of AMERICOMICS #5 (December 1983). Captain Freedom has a slightly different costume in this story (and the back-cover) that does not appear in later appearances of the character.
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Back Issues

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby (#2-3); Pat Broderick (#4)
Inker(s): Joe Simon (#2-3); Bill Black (#4)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bullseye; Stuntman; Captain Paragon
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad / BILL BLACK'S FUN COMICS #2, 3, 4
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Captain Freedom

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Willie Blyberg (signed)
Inker(s): Willie Blyberg (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Willie Blyberg
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Freedom
Character(s): Captain Freedom; The Hood
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover

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