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Issue: Mars #8

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Publication Date: August 1984

Issue #8
- #1
- #2
- #3
- #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- ✔ #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
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Issues: #8 of 12 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

First

Brand: First Comics

Indicia Publisher: First Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/21/1984

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

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Price: $1.25 CAD
$1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Mike Gold

Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #46.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (6 total)

World War 2!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Mark Wheatley (signed); Marc Hempel (signed)

Inker(s): Mark Wheatley (signed); Marc Hempel (signed)

Colorist(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel

Letterer(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): MARS

Character(s): Morgana; Fawn; colonists

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Mike Gold

Penciller(s): ?

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Read Letters

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Notes: Letters from Orchard Worker, T. M. Maple and Larry Marder. Also includes the indicia. On the inside front cover.

World War Two (Old Timer's Disease)

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel

Penciller(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel

Inker(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel

Colorist(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel; Kathryn Mayer

Letterer(s): Mark Wheatley; Marc Hempel; Kathryn Mayer

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): MARS

Character(s): Joyce Dimitri (first appearance); Rod Buckminster (first appearance, from the 5th Mars mission, videotape); Morgana; Teezy

Synopsis: The colonists are ill from the same sickness that killed the fifth Mars colony. They find tapes that suggest a laser cure, which they try.

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Pages: 20

Submitting Submissions

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Mike Gold

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): First Notes

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Riders to Heart's End!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Peter B. Gillis

Penciller(s): Don Lomax

Inker(s): Bruce Patterson

Colorist(s): Bruce Patterson

Letterer(s): Bruce Patterson

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Black Flame

Character(s): Black Flame; Judit Hunyadi

First Line: There is a road that wends through dreams:

Synopsis: The Black Flame rescues Judit Hunyadi from the denizens of the nightmare land.

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Notes: Black Flame storyline continues in Starslayer (First, 1983 series) #20

Scapegoat in Four Colors Part 1

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Writer(s): Charles Meyerson

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): The Origins of Comics

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