Top 10 #1 [Alex Ross Cover]
(September 1999)

DC, 1999 Series
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Price
3.50 USD; 5.50 CAD
Pages
44
On-sale Date
1999-07-08
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
America's Best Comics, LLC
Brand
America's Best Comics
Barcode
761941220246 00111
Editing
Eric DeSantis (credited) (assistant editor); Scott Dunbier (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

The Power, The Training, The Badge. Are They Enough For Her First Day on the New Job? (Table of Contents)

Top 10 / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Alex Ross (credited) (painting)
Inks
Alex Ross (credited) (painting)
Colors
Alex Ross (credited) (painting)
Letters
Todd Klein (credited) (letters and logo design)
Genre
superhero; detective-mystery
Characters
Toybox; Jack Phantom; Hyperdog; Dust Devil; King Peacock; Girl One; Smax; Peregrine; Irma Geddon
Synopsis
Members of Top Ten drop from the sky.
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Indexer Notes

Logo design credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

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Top 10 (Table of Contents: 1)

Top 10 / comic story / 32 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Moore (credited)
Pencils
Gene Ha (credited); Zander Cannon (credited) (layouts)
Inks
Gene Ha
Colors
Wildstorm FX (credited)
Letters
Todd Klein (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Monday, October 5th, 1999.
Genre
superhero; detective-mystery
Characters
Toybox [Off. Robyn Slinger]; Jack Phantom [Sgt. Jackie Kowalski]; Jetman [Cpt. Steve Traynor]; Hyperdog [Sgt. Kemlo Caesar]; Dust Devil [Off. Duane Bodine]; Shock-Headed Peter [Off. Peter Cheney]; King Peacock [Det. John Corbeau]; Synaesthesia [Det. Jackson]; Irma Geddon [Off. Irma Wornow]; Girl One [Off. Sung Li]; Off. Jeff Smax; Monsoon [Sgt. Hector Lopez]; Wolfspider [Bill Bailey]; Commissioner Ultima; Blindshot [Bob Booker]; Aberdeen Angus; Dr. Incredible [Dr. Trent Teller]; Mrs. Incredible [Beach Bunny] [Shirley Teller]; Large Marge; April Showers; Ophidia; Ernesto Gograh; Saddles [Stefan Graczik] (dead); Professor Gunter Gromolko; Frenzy [Larry Fischmann]; Spaceman [Det. Alexei Glushko]; Miss Miracle; Colonel Lilliput
Synopsis
During Toybox's first day with Top Ten, she investigates the murder of Saddles and arrests Professor Gromolko. Meanwhile, Ernesto Gograh and two of Large Marge's girls are arrested.
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Keywords
Neopolis

Indexer Notes

First appearance of all characters. The story contains numerous references to other comics, literature, or popular culture, often in artwork or in wordplay. These include: Legion of Superheroes; Logan's Run; changing in a phone booth; cover of Action Comics #1; Popeye; red kryptonite; Airboy; Jack Kirby; Krypto; the Mandarin; Simon Bar Sinister; Man-Thing; the Black Cat; Elvis Presley; Ray Palmer; Tijuana bibles; "Crisis" storylines; crossovers; x-ray vision; America's Most Wanted; and All-Star Comics.

Powers of Arrest (Table of Contents: 2)

Top 10 / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Alan Moore
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Once described as a "strontium wedding cake," Neopolis as it is now brings to mind more of a four-story car-pound...
Genre
superhero; detective-mystery
Characters
John Q. Public [Johnny Genovese]; Professor Gromolko; Dr. Axis; Brain-Beast of Berlin; Old Glory [Sgt. Sam Adams]; Jetman; Hyperdog; Stochastic Fats [Off. Willie Beaumont]; Smax; Irma Geddon; Monsoon; Vigilante from Venus [M'rrgla Qualtz]; Synaesthesia; Dust Devil; Jack Phantom; Shock-Headed Peter
Synopsis
Introduction to Neopolis and Top Ten
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Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Power, The Training, The Badge. Are They Enough For Her First Day on the New Job?
    Top 10
  2. 1. Top 10
    Top 10
  3. 2. Powers of Arrest
    Top 10
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Del Gruber
  • Kirk House
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Karsten S.
  • Jim Van Dore
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