(February 1992)

Dark Horse, 1992 Series
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Price
2.50 USD; 3.00 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dark Horse Comics Inc.
Brand
Dark Horse Comics [chess piece]
Editing
Barbara Kesel (editor)

Issue Notes

Contains a "Certificate of Stock" that when combined with the Certificates from issues #2-6 can be mailed away to redeem John Byrne's Next Men 12 card trading card set.
Silver embossed foil card-stock cover.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Next Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne (signed)
Inks
John Byrne (signed)
Colors
Matt Webb ?

Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Tony Murcheson; Jack; Jasmine; Nathan; Bethany; Danny
Reprints

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

Next Men / recap / 1 page (report information)

Script
John Byrne ?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Bethany, Danny, Jack, Jasmine, and Nathan have lived all their young lives in an idyllic place they call "The Greenery."
Genre
science fiction; superhero

Indexer Notes

The Story So Far (recap); issue credits; Gene Roddenberry dedication.
Inside front cover.

Breakout (Table of Contents: 2)

Next Men / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
Matt Webb
Letters
John Byrne (computer)

Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Next Men [Bethany; Danny; Jack; Jasmine; Nathan]; Tony Murcheson; Willis Ducummen; Senator Aldus Hilltop; Dr. Joseph Bremmer (dies); Sheriff Wyatt Coffey; Deputy Tommy
Synopsis
The Next Men escape from Project Next Men with the help of Tony Murcheson.
Reprints

What This Certificate Says (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Next Men / promo (ad from the publisher) / 4 pages (report information)

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

Next! / letters page / 3 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Secrets Behind The Comics: The answers in letter columns can be written by any of a number of people.
Genre
superhero
Reprints

Indexer Notes

John Byrne talks about answering letters in a letter column, discusses comic book origin stories and answers readers' letters.

Letters from Tony Midyett, Jacob Gilbert, Wayne D. Chang, and Robert Razavi. Also includes an entry form for a free trip to the 1992 San Diego Comic Convention and dinner with John Byrne.

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

Flogging a Dead Horse / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Dark Horse staff credits; indicia.
Inside back cover.

Hunter or Hunted? (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

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

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Next Men
  2. 1. ["Bethany, Danny, Jack, Jasmine, and Nathan have lived all their young lives in an idyllic place they call "The Greenery.""]
    Next Men
  3. 2. Breakout
    Next Men
  4. 3. What This Certificate Says
    Next Men
  5. 4. ["Secrets Behind The Comics: The answers in letter columns can be written by any of a number of people."]
    Next!
  6. 5. ["1991 was Dark Horse's best year since we began publishing in 1986."]
    Flogging a Dead Horse
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
  8. 7. Hunter or Hunted?
    Batman
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ken Austin
  • Merlin Haas
  • Keith Alan Morgan
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore