E-Man #1
(April 1983)

First, 1983 Series
| Next Issue >
Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-12-14 ?
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
First Comics Inc.
Brand
First Comics
Editing
Mike Gold (credited) (editor); Rick Oliver (credited) (associate editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from FIRST advertisement in Amazing Heroes #16.

Lights! Camera! Cataclysm! (Table of Contents)

E-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Staton (signed as Staton)
Inks
Joe Staton (signed as Staton)
Colors
Bruce Patterson
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
E-Man [Alec Tronn]; Nova Kane; Michael Mauser

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

First Notes / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

E.M., Phone Home (Table of Contents: 2)

E-Man / comic story / 27 pages (report information)

Script
Martin Pasko (credited)
Pencils
Joe Staton (credited)
Inks
Joe Staton (credited)
Colors
Bruce Patterson (credited as Bruce D. Patterson)
Letters
Bruce Patterson (credited as Bruce D. Patterson)

Genre
satire-parody; superhero
Characters
E-Man [Alec Tronn]; Nova Kane; Teddy Q; Michael Mauser; Albert Einstein (ghost); Minnesota Schwartz [Garrison Belldt]; Art Landish; Rodney; Stringpull "S.S." Schmaltzberg; the Brain from Sirius; Great White (shark); Agent I.M. Faceless; Ford Fairmont; Drizzle [Ororeo]; David; Lionel Hampton; Marshall (robot); Phil Donahue; Sirian Snakes
Keywords
Alpha Centaurii; Atari; Aunt Jemima's Pancake Makeup; Bedtime for Bonzo; Business Week; Daily Asteroid; Donkey Pong; FBI; Friday the 13th; Gore-Eaters; Gross Encounters of the Weird Kind; Halloween; Hoy Fat Chinese Food; Illusions of Grandeur (arcade); Invaders of My Space; Junkman; Kill My Landlord; Len Wein School of Office Practice; Lower East Side Aquarium and Medicaid Methadone Maintenance Program Headquarters; Maim My Mother; Mauser Detective Agency; Maws; movies; Mutant Energizer Control-Capsule; New York Poot; ParaSight Industries Inc; Pentagon; publications; Raiders of the Lost Buick; Rapist Slash; Sirius IV; Space Invaders; Tarantula; the Uncanny F-Men; USAF; Vampire Bat; Variety; VD the Ultra-Detestable; video games

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

E-Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike Gold (credited)
Pencils
Joe Staton (E-Man and Michael Mauser); John Byrne (Rog-2000)
Inks
Joe Staton (E-Man and Michael Mauser); John Byrne (Rog-2000)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Of course the letter column's called 'E-Mail'
Characters
E-Man [Alex Tronn]; Michael Mauser; ROG-2000

Indexer Notes

Introductory article.

Rog-2000 vs Auntie Decay! (Table of Contents: 4)

Rog-2000 / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Letters
John Byrne

Characters
ROG-2000; Timmy; Wendy; Auntie Decay
Keywords
Mostess Twinkles Cakes

Indexer Notes

Parody of a Hostess Twinkies advertisement.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

advertisement / 4 pages (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Lights! Camera! Cataclysm!
    E-Man
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    First Notes
  3. 2. E.M., Phone Home
    E-Man
  4. 3. ["Of course the letter column's called 'E-Mail'"]
    E-Mail
  5. 4. Rog-2000 vs Auntie Decay!
    Rog-2000
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Jochen B.
  • Daniel Block
  • Steve Coates
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore