1963
#1
(April 1993)
Image,
1993 Series
- Price
- 1.95 USD; 2.35 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Image Comics
- Brand
-
Image
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Rick Veitch confirmed by email that he was colorist Marvin Kilroy (2020-8-17).
Mystery Incorporated
1963 / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Goldarn it, Crystal Man! Our own headquarters is trying to murder us...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mystery Incorporated [the Planet [Biff Baker]; Kid Dynamo [Tommy Baker]; Neon Queen [Jeannie Morrow]; Crystal Man [Craig Crandall]]
A Bedazzling Brace of Barnstorming Bargains from the Bowers of Brilliance!
1963 / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- Alan Moore
- Pencils
- Stephen R. Bissette; Rick Veitch
- Inks
- Stephen R. Bissette; Don Simpson
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- The Fury; Voidoid; USA; Hypernaut
Indexer Notes
Promo using the covers to 1963 #2 and #3 at 1/4th of a page size reproduction, on inside front cover.
Mayhem on Mystery Mile!
1963 / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- Alan Moore (credited)
- Pencils
- Rick Veitch (credited); Murphy Anderson
- Inks
- Dave Gibbons (credited); Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- Rick Veitch (credited as Marvin Kilroy)
- Letters
- Don Simpson (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ha! I did it! I busted into Mystery Incorporated's mile-long underground fortress!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mystery Incorporated [the Planet [Biff Baker]; Kid Dynamo [Tommy Baker]; Neon Queen [Jeannie Morrow]; Crystal Man [Craig Crandall]]; Reversible Raider
- Synopsis
- The Mystery Incorporated team tests the security in their headquarters, then muses on the origins of their super-powers. But things get dangerous when a mysterious intruder causes those defenses to turn against the team. When Kid Dynamo is captured, the team must pursue the intruder into...the Maybe Machine!
Indexer Notes
Fantastic Four homage. Murphy Anderson's contribution to the book is fairly small.
[no title indexed]
Sensational Sixty-Three Sweatshop Section! / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Alan Moore ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Item! Talk about wild! Who should drop into the stifling, steaming...
- Synopsis
- Spoof of the old Marvel Bullpen Bulletins pages.
Between page 11 and 12 of the previous story.
Wear Yesterday's T-Shirt Today!
1963 / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- Alan Moore
- Pencils
- Don Simpson; Rick Veitch (Red Brain only)
- Inks
- Don Simpson; Rick Veitch (Red Brain only)
- Colors
- Rick Veitch
- Letters
- Don Simpson
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
Credits from Rick Veitch at http://www.rickveitch.com/2009/02/24/fashion-week-goes-retro/
Between page 17 and 18 of the previous story.
[no title indexed]
Mystery Mailbag / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Alan Moore ?
- Pencils
- Rick Veitch (logo)
- Inks
- Dave Gibbons (logo)
- Colors
- Rick Veitch
- Letters
- Don Simpson (logo); typeset
Indexer Notes
A fake letter page with letters for an issue that was never published.
[Crystal Man!!]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Crystal Man [Craig Crandall]
Indexer Notes
Pin-up of Crystal Man from Mystery Incorporated.
[Neon Queen]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Neon Queen [Jeannie Morrow]
Indexer Notes
Pin-up of Neon Queen from Mystery Incorporated.
[Kid Dynamo!!]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Kid Dynamo [Tommy Baker]
Indexer Notes
Pin-up of Kid Dynamo from Mystery Incorporated.
[Planet]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- the Planet [Biff Baker]
Indexer Notes
Pinup of the Planet from Mystery Incorporated.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- Alan Moore ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- ? typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the future there will be stories that sell noting but comic books!
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover ad for Moondog's Comic shops in Chicago. Done in the style of a 1963 comic book ad.
Shamed By You English?
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- Back cover phony ad for courses in speaking better English.
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Sequence added per Steven Rowe, June 2009, from info at http://www.rickveitch.com/2009/05/24/todays-post-is-brought-to-you-by-bltc….
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Table of Contents
-
0.
Mystery Incorporated
1963 -
1.
A Bedazzling Brace of Barnstorming Bargains from the Bowers of Brilliance!
1963 -
2.
Mayhem on Mystery Mile!
1963 -
3.
["Item! Talk about wild! Who should drop into the stifling, steaming..."]
Sensational Sixty-Three Sweatshop Section! -
4.
Wear Yesterday's T-Shirt Today!
1963 -
5.
[no title indexed]
Mystery Mailbag -
6.
[Crystal Man!!]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! -
7.
[Neon Queen]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! -
8.
[Kid Dynamo!!]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! -
9.
[Planet]
A Sizzlin' Sixty-Three Souvenir Snap-Shot! -
10.
["In the future there will be stories that sell noting but comic books!"]
-
11.
Shamed By You English?
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- Ralf Haring
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Ron Sadowski
- Glenn Simpson
- Bjorn Wallin
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