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Issue: Power Comics #3
Publication Date: July 1988
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEclipse; Acme Press
Brand: Eclipse International; Acme Press
Indicia Publisher: Acme Press Ltd
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.95 CAD
£0.95 GBP
$2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Richard Ashford
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Limited Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dave Gibbons (credited)
Inker(s): Dave Gibbons (credited)
Colorist(s): Dondie Cox (credited)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Powerbolt
Character(s): Powerbolt
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Creators credited on inside front cover.
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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Powerlines
Character(s): Brian Bolland (caricature); Dave Gibbons (caricature)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Text page on the early careers of artists Dave Gibbons and Brian Bolland concerning their work for comics to be distributed in Nigeria.
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The Evil Giant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donne Avenell [as Don Avenall] (credited); Norman Worker (credited)
Penciller(s): Brian Bolland (credited)
Inker(s): Brian Bolland (credited)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Powerbolt
Character(s): Powerbolt
Synopsis: An aircraft crash blows a large hole in the ground, revealing an egg which hatches into a giant being. Powerbolt has to lure the giant away from Main City and destroy it.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: from Powerman (Pican, 1975 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: Powerbolt was named "Powerman" in the original series in Nigeria.
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Acme Press

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Acme Press
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: A promo with nine small boxes with various series characters and a list of creators. "Power Comics & Aces released through Eclipse International".
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Peril from the Sky

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donne Avenell [as Don Avenall] (credited); Norman Worker (credited)
Penciller(s): Dave Gibbons (credited)
Inker(s): Dave Gibbons (credited)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Powerbolt
Character(s): Powerbolt; Professor Brains
Synopsis: A meteor lands in the city park and causes plants and insects to grow to giant size. Powerbolt must protect the citizens from the giant insects.
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Reprint Notes: from Powerman (Pican, 1975 series) #?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Disclose Notes: Powerbolt was named "Powerman" in the original series in Nigeria.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eclipse
First Line: Back Issues are back in stock and Eclipse has 'em!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Last interior page and inside back cover. List of back issues available directly from Eclipse Comics.
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Ten Years of Science Fiction

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Yeates [as T. Yeates] (signed)
Inker(s): Tom Yeates [as T. Yeates] (signed)
Colorist(s): Tom Yeates ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eclipse Comics
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Original illustration of various characters who had appeared in Eclipse science fiction comics from 1978 to 1988.

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