(1975)

AC, 1971 Series
Price
3.00 USD
Pages
52
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Paragon Publications
Brand
Paragon Publications [all caps text, 3D blocking]
Editing
Bill Black

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Black (signed)
Inks
Bill Black (signed)
Colors
?

Characters
Synesthesia; Phantom Lady

Synn Interviews Bill Black (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bill Black
Pencils
Bill Black (signed); Chris Lewis; Bob Lubbers
Inks
Bill Black (signed); Chris Lewis; Bob Lubbers
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

The 'interview' between Black and his character, Synn, serves to provide credit and reprint information for the contents of this issue. Small art panels are interspersed with the interview text.

The Capricorn Chronicles: Book One (Table of Contents: 2)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bill Black
Pencils
Bill Black
Inks
Bill Black

Genre
superhero
Characters
Synesthesia (Silvia Sinn); Phantom Lady; Alizarin Crimson
Reprints

Indexer Notes

This may have been intended as a cover illustration representing the "Carnage on Campus" story. The illustration represents the characters and events that occur in that story.

Carnage on Campus (Table of Contents: 3)

Girl from LSD / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Black (signed)
Pencils
Bill Black (signed)
Inks
Bill Black (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Synesthesia (Silvia Sinn); Phantom Lady; Alizarin Crimson
Synopsis
Alizarin Crimson uses the fountain at Florida State University to spread her 'Red Death' plague.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
R. C. Harvey (signed)
Inks
R. C. Harvey (signed)
Letters
R. C. Harvey

Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Wonder Woman

Black Beauties (Table of Contents: 5)

illustration / 4 pages (report information)

Pencils
Steve Vance (signed); Bill Black (signed); Al Bradford (signed)
Inks
Bill Black (signed)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Black Canary; Black Cat; Black Widow; Black Angel

Stormy Tempest (Table of Contents: 6)

Stormy Tempest / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Black
Pencils
Bill Black (signed)
Inks
Bill Black (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Stormy Tempest; Satania; Gustavo

Indexer Notes

Story is split into two parts, separated by several pages of pin-up art.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

illustration / 3 pages (report information)

Pencils
R. C. Harvey (signed)
Inks
R. C. Harvey (signed)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Starbright; Mary Marvel

The Big A (Table of Contents: 8)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Steve Vance (signed)
Inks
Bill Black (signed)

Genre
superhero

Indexer Notes

Pin-up art of a woman in a bottom-less Captain America costume.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

illustration / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
F. Stuart Smith
Inks
F. Stuart Smith
Letters
typeset

Genre
biography
Characters
Barbarella
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Brief summary of F. Stuart Smith's art style and contributions to Paragon Publications. This section includes a photograph of Smith and two of his line drawings reprinted from the Paragon Illustrated series. Smith signed these illustrations with two Greek 'Sigma' symbols embedded inside a 'Phi' symbol. The first two pages are followed by a double-page illustration of Barbarella, signed as 'Stu Smith'.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Cliff Neal [as Oisif Eguax] (signed)
Inks
Cliff Neal [as Oisif Eguax] (signed)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Vampirella; Phantom Lady; Tara

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Wally Wood
Inks
Wally Wood

Genre
science fiction

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

illustration / 11 pages (report information)

Pencils
Bill Black (signed); Steve Vance (signed); F. Stuart Smith (signed); Bob Powell (signed); Al Williamson; Mike Royer (signed)
Inks
Bill Black (signed)

Genre
superhero; science fiction
Characters
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Synn, The Girl from LSD; Cave Girl; Jann of the Jungle; Mera
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The Cave Girl illustration appears to be a re-inked version (signed by Powell and Black) of the cover to the ME issue of Cave Girl #11 from 1953. The Powell/Black version would be used again as the cover to the 1988 Cave Girl issue from AC.

Siren of the Golden Sand (Table of Contents: 13)

Space Ace / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Fred Guardineer
Inks
Fred Guardineer
Letters
?

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Space Ace (Jet Black); Jak Tal
Reprints

Indexer Notes

First line: "Somewhere off the Mars-Jupiter run...a body hurtles from the air-lock..."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Bill Black (signed); ?
Inks
?

Genre
sword and sorcery
Characters
Red Sonja

Indexer Notes

Pin-up illustration of Red Sonja is unsigned. The back cover illustration by Black is titled 'She Who Waits'.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Synn Interviews Bill Black
  3. 2. The Capricorn Chronicles: Book One
  4. 3. Carnage on Campus
    Girl from LSD
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. Black Beauties
  7. 6. Stormy Tempest
    Stormy Tempest
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
  9. 8. The Big A
  10. 9. [no title indexed]
  11. 10. [no title indexed]
  12. 11. [no title indexed]
  13. 12. [no title indexed]
  14. 13. Siren of the Golden Sand
    Space Ace
  15. 14. [no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Steve Belknap
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Steven Samuels
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Jim Van Dore