A humorous three-panel cartoon compares both the relatively easily analyzed echolocation system of bats and the dolphin's ability to use sonar to gaydar, the latter of which confounds two hard working but ultimately utterly perplexed scientists

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Hearts & Iron / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Jeff Jacklin
Pencils: Jeff Jacklin
Inks: Jeff Jacklin
Letters: The "Beck"

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Midway
Characters: Carl Hanson; John Sullivan
Synopsis: This issue introduces Carl Hanson and John Sullivan, who later receive their own series, Hearts & Iron, which continues to the present day as of the date this entry was composed

Indexer Notes

Although this is the first published appearance of Carl and John, it would have to take place chronologically after Hearts & Iron #1, as they first meet in that issue.

STUBBY With a MOHAWK / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script: Peter Keane
Pencils: Peter Keane
Inks: Peter Keane
Letters: Peter Keane

Castro Comics / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Bruce Billings
Pencils: Bruce Billings
Inks: Bruce Billings
Letters: Bruce Billings

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Alison Bechdel
Pencils: Alison Bechdel
Inks: Alison Bechdel
Letters: Alison Bechdel

Reprints

from Hands Off! (Ward Sutton Productions, 1994 series) #1 (Summer 1994)

"Lone Ranger" / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Howard Stangroom
Pencils: Stephen Lowther
Inks: Stephen Lowther
Letters: ?

Characters: Lone Ranger; Tonto; Rawhide Kid

Indexer Notes

It's likely this story was too obscure to be the inspiration behind it, and he was only seen in one of four panels, but Marvel's own Rawhide Kid character did come out in 2003, in a mini-series which featured art and innuendo very similar to that contained within this one page story.
Writing credit confirmed by Will Morgan, June 2014.

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Howard Stangroom
Pencils: Stephen Lowther
Inks: Stephen Lowther
Letters: ?

Indexer Notes

Writing credit confirmed by Will Morgan, June 2014.

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Bradley Parker
Pencils: Bradley Parker
Inks: Bradley Parker
Letters: Bradley Parker

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Mark Campos
Pencils: Mark Campos
Inks: Mark Campos
Letters: Mark Campos

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Joan Hilty
Pencils: Joan Hilty
Inks: Joan Hilty
Letters: Joan Hilty

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: ? (as Blue)
Pencils: ? (as Blue)
Inks: ? (as Blue)
Letters: ? (as Blue)

Stonewall Riots / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Andrea Natalie
Pencils: Andrea Natalie
Inks: Andrea Natalie
Colors: ?
Letters: Andrea Natalie

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Noreen Stevens
Pencils: Noreen Stevens
Inks: Noreen Stevens
Letters: Noreen Stevens

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Do you date?

EDITOR'S NOTES / photo story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Andy Mangels
Letters: typeset

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Lon Mabon
Inks: Lon Mabon
Letters: Lon Mabon

Reprints

from Hands Off! (Ward Sutton Productions, 1994 series) #1 (Summer 1994)

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Jacki Randall
Pencils: Jacki Randall
Inks: Jacki Randall
Letters: Jacki Randall

Bernie / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Dave Young
Pencils: Dave Young
Inks: Dave Young
Letters: Dave Young

Brigga Dun / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: J. D. March
Pencils: J. D. March
Inks: J. D. March
Letters: J. D. March

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Daerick Gröss
Inks: Daerick Gröss

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Ivan Velez Jr.
Pencils: Ivan Velez Jr.
Inks: Ivan Velez Jr.
Letters: Ivan Velez Jr.

Reprints

in No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (May 2012)

Desert Peach / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Donna Barr
Pencils: Donna Barr
Inks: Donna Barr
Letters: Donna Barr

Lesbian Survival Hints / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Rhonda Dicksion
Pencils: Rhonda Dicksion
Inks: Rhonda Dicksion
Letters: Rhonda Dicksion

Doc and Raider / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Sean Martin
Pencils: Sean Martin
Inks: Sean Martin
Letters: Sean Martin

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: J. A. Fludd
Pencils: J. A. Fludd
Inks: J. A. Fludd
Letters: J. A. Fludd

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Julie Franki
Pencils: Julie Franki
Inks: Julie Franki
Letters: Julie Franki

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Robert Kirby
Pencils: Robert Kirby
Inks: Robert Kirby
Letters: Robert Kirby

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Julia Lacquement
Inks: Julia Lacquement

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Steve Matuszak
Pencils: Steve Matuszak
Inks: Steve Matuszak
Letters: Steve Matuszak

Tranny Towers / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Diana Green
Pencils: Diana Green
Inks: Diana Green
Letters: Diana Green

Liliane / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Leanne Franson
Pencils: Leanne Franson
Inks: Leanne Franson
Letters: Leanne Franson

Reprints

in No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) (May 2012)

Little Homo / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: David Sexton
Pencils: P. Craig Russell
Inks: P. Craig Russell
Letters: ?

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: Malachy Coney
Pencils: Seán Doran
Inks: Seán Doran
Letters: ?

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script: Diane DiMassa
Pencils: Diane DiMassa
Inks: Diane DiMassa
Letters: Diane DiMassa

Shanda the Panda / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Mike Curtis
Inks: Terrie Smith

Heartbreakers / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Anina Bennett
Pencils: Paul Guinan
Inks: Paul Guinan
Letters: ?

Genre: science fiction

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Andy Hartzell
Pencils: Andy Hartzell
Inks: Andy Hartzell
Letters: Andy Hartzell

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Jon Macy
Pencils: Jon Macy
Inks: Jon Macy
Letters: Jon Macy

First Line of Dialogue or Text: One of my first erotic experiences with art
Synopsis: Jon (or the fictional main character) relates his childhood experiences exploring the erotic aspect of superheros in comics and comparing instances where spandex clad characters were drawn anatomically correct vs. not so much

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Stephanie Pennington
Pencils: Stephanie Pennington
Inks: Stephanie Pennington
Letters: Stephanie Pennington

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Beck Main
Pencils: Beck Main
Inks: Beck Main
Letters: Beck Main

cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Catherine Doherty
Pencils: Catherine Doherty
Inks: Catherine Doherty
Letters: Catherine Doherty

Steven's Comics / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: David Kelly
Pencils: David Kelly
Inks: David Kelly
Letters: David Kelly

See Jane / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script: Paige Braddock
Pencils: Paige Braddock
Inks: Paige Braddock
Letters: Paige Braddock

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script: Marc Lynx
Pencils: John Dennis
Inks: John Dennis
Letters: ?

Indexer Notes

This story was dedicated to Neal Pozner, who passed away due to AIDS. It is a continuation of Part 1, from issue #24, and was billed as to be continued, but since this was the last issue of Gay Comics, the next installment wasn't seen in this title or any other.

Pride / character profile / 1 page (report information)

Script: Andy Mangels
Pencils: Brandon McKinney
Inks: Brandon McKinney
Letters: typeset

credits, title page / 11 pages (report information)

Script: Andy Mangels ?
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Lists a brief bio for every single contributor to Gay Comix/Comics over the past 25 issues and 18 years.

text article / 0.8 page (report information)

Script: Andy Mangels ?
Letters: typeset

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.2 page (report information)

Letters: typeset

GAY comics / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Indexer Notes

Thumbnail sized versions of covers for all 24 previous issues, as well as Gay Comics Special #1, are printed on this issue's back cover.

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Table of Contents

0. [no title indexed]
1. [no title indexed]
GAY COMICS #25: Spring 1998
2. Howard Crusee
Editor's Notes
3. Those Roles Keep Rollin' On & On
4. People Who Live in Glass Marriages Shouldn't Throw Stones at Same-Sex Marriage
U.S. Legislators Who Supported the Anti-Gay DOMA Bill
5. Pee-Cee
Bitchy Butch
6. I've Got a Secret
7. Little Howie in Slumberland
8. Came Out Comix
Come Out Comix
9. Someday My Prints Will Come
10. A Letter To Heterosexuals
11. ["I Came Out To My Parents, Serena!"]
12. Thrilling Realities
13. Then It Began Gently To Rain
14. [no title indexed]
Poppers
15. [no title indexed]
Phil 'N' Rock Funnies
16. Relationships...
The Commitment Ceremony...
17. Robert Triptow
Editor's Notes
18. [no title indexed]
Real Fairy Tales
19. [no title indexed]
Hans Christian Andersen
20. Those Good Old Days
21. [no title indexed]
Leonard & Larry
22. [no title indexed]
23. [no title indexed]
Girls, Be Glamorous
24. [no title indexed]
Four Favorites
25. [no title indexed]
Jayson
26. Blip...
Donelan
27. ["Midway"]
Hearts & Iron
28. [no title indexed]
STUBBY With a MOHAWK
29. [no title indexed]
Castro Comics
30. Overexposed
31. Clone Ranger
"Lone Ranger"
32. Bar Nothing
33. Pink
34. Barriers Burned Away
35. Out the Chute
36. Sex... is overrated?
37. [no title indexed]
Stonewall Riots
38. ["Do you date?"]
39. ANDY MANGELS
EDITOR'S NOTES
40. The GAY AGENDA
41. B.D.'s "Day at the Mall", #1
42. [no title indexed]
Bernie
43. [no title indexed]
Brigga Dun
44. [no title indexed]
45. If I Were A Drag Queen (Dot Dot Dot)
46. [no title indexed]
Desert Peach
47. [no title indexed]
Lesbian Survival Hints
48. [no title indexed]
Doc and Raider
49. If I Were The Goalkeeper
50. Life as A TOMBOY
51. Goodbye To You
52. [no title indexed]
53. Happy Anniversary, Darling
54. "Have We Met?"
Tranny Towers
55. the Sensitive Straight Boy
Liliane
56. Wet Dream Land
Little Homo
57. Wake Up!!!
58. Born Queer: Those Young & Tortured Years
59. Cricket Dreams
Shanda the Panda
60. Memory Lane
Heartbreakers
61. The night I told my family about Ron and me...
62. ["One of my first erotic experiences with art"]
63. Dyke Secrets
64. Human Interaction
65. Mum
66. [no title indexed]
Steven's Comics
67. How many lesbians DOES it take to put together a basketball goal?!
See Jane
68. That Was Then, This Is Now... a story of a future without AIDS
69. [no title indexed]
Pride
70. A HISTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS
71. TIMELINE
72. BACK ISSUES STILL AVAILABLE
73. [no title indexed]
GAY comics

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