Shadowhawk Special #1

(December 1994)

Image Comics Presents: Shadowhawk Special (Table of Contents: 1)

Shadowhawk / credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Images of Tomorrow (Table of Contents: 2)

ShadowHawk / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Kurt Busiek (credited)

Pencils

Walter McDaniel (credited)

Inks

Jason Gorder (credited); Chance Wolf (credited)

Colors

Gloria Vasquez (credited) (color guides); Rob Schwager (credited) (separations)

Letters

Michael Wolf (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The air is empty and cold and full of suppressed anger...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Shadowhawk; Lt. Arturo Rieves (guest); Christina Ried (guest); Lt. Lou Jacks (guest); Junkyard Dogz [Hotspur; Needle; Guncrazy; Fast Lucy; Iceberg; Rumble] (villains); Randall; Anthony Scrapelli; Tonio; Vendetta [Maxx Boldd] (cameo flashback)

Synopsis

Shadowhawk tangles with the small-time villains, the Junkyard Dogz, but discovers later that their leader, Hotspur, is the son of a local don and has taken over the Scrapelli crime family. Rieves is so distraught about the return of Shadowhawk that he digs up Paul Johnstone to prove that he is still dead.

Indexer Notes

Story takes place sometime after The New Shadowhawk (Image, 1995 series) #1.

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

Letters to the Shadow Lair / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jim Valentino

Letters

typeset

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Fake letters page to the Silver-Age Shadowhawk comic.

[Dumenuf Products] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1.5 pages (report information)

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

Loopy the Loon / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jim Valentino (credited)

Pencils

Murphy Anderson (credited)

Inks

Murphy Anderson (credited)

Colors

Gloria Vasquez (credited); Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts (credited as Visual Concepts) (separations)

Letters

Michael Wolf

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Aw, Loopy, you've got your shoes on the wrong feet again!

Genre

humor

Characters

Loopy the Loon

The Phantom Gorillas From Dimension-Z! (Table of Contents: 6)

ShadowHawk / comic story / 8.5 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Valentino (credited)

Pencils

Jim Valentino (credited)

Inks

Don Simpson (credited); Chris Ecker (credited)

Colors

Gloria Vasquez (credited); Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts (credited as Visual Concepts) (separations)

Letters

Michael Wolf (credited)

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Silver-Age Shadowhawk [Earl Hatfield]; Squirrel [Luke Hatfield] (guest); Mrs. Hatfield [also as Lady Shadowhawkette] (guest); Buddy, the Shadowdog (guest); Commissioner Schiff (guest); Phantom Gorillas From Dimension-Z (villains)

Synopsis

Shadowhawk and Buddy take on a gang of gorillas that turn intangible while committing petty crimes.

Indexer Notes

First panel is signed "Blob Vain"

Understanding Our Differences (Table of Contents: 7)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Alan Moore; Jim Valentino

Pencils

Jim Valentino

Inks

Paul Fricke

Colors

Diane Valentino

Letters

Michael Wolf

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Fake (and slightly offensive) public service announcement about racism.

The Hyena's Revenge! (Table of Contents: 8)

ShadowHawk / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Valentino (credited)

Pencils

Jim Valentino (credited)

Inks

Paul Fricke (credited); Chris Ecker (credited)

Colors

Gloria Vasquez (credited); Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts (credited as Visual Concepts) (separations)

Letters

Michael Wolf (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Golly! Shadowhawk is getting the stuffing knocked out of him by the Hyena!

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Silver-Age Shadowhawk [Earl Hatfield]; Squirrel [Luke Hatfield] (guest); Mrs. Hatfield (guest); Buddy (a dog) (guest); Commissioner Schiff (guest); Professor Ellsworth; The Hyena (villain)

Synopsis

Shadowhawk and Squirrel track down the Hyena who has stolen an Expando-Ray that makes everyday household items (like pennies and typewriters) much larger.

Indexer Notes

This is a send-up of kitschy 70's Batman stories and even has a large white border around the page edges like DC did for their reprints of the era; First panel is signed "Blob Vain"

The Silver-Age Shadowhawk (Table of Contents: 9)

ShadowHawk / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jim Valentino

Pencils

Jim Valentino

Inks

Paul Fricke

Colors

?

Letters

Michael Wolf; typeset

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Silver-Age Shadowhawk [Earl Hatfield]; Squirrel [Luke Hatfield]; Phantom Gorilla From Dimension-Z

Indexer Notes

Flip cover; Cover is signed "Blob Vain"