Guns of the Dragon #1

(October 1998)

Dragon Island Chapter One (Table of Contents: 1)

Guns Of The Dragon / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Timothy Truman

Pencils

Timothy Truman

Inks

Timothy Truman

Colors

Jamison Services (Separations); John Kalisz

Letters

Ken Lopez

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Take up the white man's burden -- and reap his old reward...

Genre

adventure

Characters

Enemy Ace [Hans Von Hammer]; Bat Lash; Biff Bradley (Introduction); Vandal Savage (Villain); Kung (Villain); Dobutsu Ninjas; Miss Fear; Labeau (Villain, Introduction); Chop-Chop (Introduction; See Indexer Notes); Unnamed Communist rebels; Chiang Kai-Shek; Mao Tse-Tung; Unnamed Chinese soldiers; General Joseph W. Stilwell; Fan (Introduction)

Synopsis

Bat Lash, Biff Bradley and Enemy Ace form an unlikely group as they are sent by the U.S. & Chinese governments to retrieve two ancient swords on Dragon Island, but have to contend with Miss Fear, Mao Tse-Tung and Vandal Savage who are after the same items.

Keywords

China; dinosaur; dragon; Shanghai

Indexer Notes

The Chop-Chop character that appears here is possibly not the Chop-Chop [Weng Chan] of the Blackhawks because of the time period and the age difference between the two. The Dragon Island that is in this story becomes Dinosaur Island later in the DC universe.