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Issue: The Fly #2

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Publication Date: July 1983

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Issues: #2 of 9 Issues (13 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: Red Circle Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Red Circle Productions Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/17/1983

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.25 CAD
$1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Robin Snyder

Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #26.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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- A Woman's Place... [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

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- A Woman's Place... [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Jim Steranko (signed)

Inker(s): Jim Steranko (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fly

Character(s): the Fly; Fly Girl

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Under The Gun!

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robin Snyder

Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)

Inker(s): ? (illustrations)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The 1st part of Robin Snyder's Fly indexes. Includes reprinted covers of Laugh #128 and Pep #151, where the Fly had a back up.

I Killed The Fly

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Rich Buckler

Penciller(s): Jim Sherman; Rich Buckler (page 1)

Inker(s): Jim Sherman; Rich Buckler (page 1)

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fly

Character(s): Fly; Spider Spry; Turan

Synopsis: Spider Spry fatally shoots the Fly. Turan changes the Fly back into Thomas Troy and heals the Fly's body during the change.

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Pages: 3

A Woman's Place...

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Rich Buckler; Stan Timmons

Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales

Inker(s): Ricardo Villagran

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Peter Kircheimer

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Fly-Girl

Character(s): Fly Girl; Big Max Cardona; Harry Howell

Synopsis: Fly Girl contemplates whether or not to join Thomas in becoming superheroes again. Later, she saves her producer from a mafia boss as Fly-Girl and decides to relaunch her crime-fighting career.

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New Crusaders: Legacy #[nn] published July 2013

In Content Item: Flag

New Crusaders #3 [unnamed variant] published December 2012
as Director's Cut [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Under The Gun!

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robin Snyder

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

The Mugging!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jack C. Harris

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Rich Buckler

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Bill Yoshida

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Fly

Character(s): Fly; Diamond Jack (a masked mugger); Officer McGee; Ol' Abbey (a witch); Lovecraft (Abbey's magic parrot); the Marches (flashback)

Synopsis: Thomas Troy is mugged by a masked thief named Diamond Jack. He tracks the thief as the Fly but must stop a witch and her mystical parrot from killing the thief.

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Pages: 17

Notes: Ol' Abbey is possibly Abigail March, Thomas's adoptive mother from the original series. Clues pointing toward this fact is her name, her being a witch, and The Fly stating that she talked as if they had met before.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Robin Snyder

Penciller(s): Steve Ditko

Inker(s): Sam de la Rosa

Colorist(s): Barry Grossman

Letterer(s): Sam de la Rosa

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Hangman

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Pages: 4

Notes: A vignette featuring various "Hangmen".

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Rudy Nebres (illustration)

Inker(s): Rudy Nebres (illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: House as for The Shield # 2.

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Brian Buniak; Rich Buckler (illustrations)

Inker(s): Frank Giacoia; Rich Buckler ? (illustrations)

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. House ad for Thunder Bunny # 1 and Mighty Crusaders poster.

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Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Rudy Nebres (signed)

Inker(s): Rudy Nebres (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fly

Character(s): Fly

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Pages: 1

Notes: On back cover.