Celestial Mechanics #1

(December 1990)

What A Glorious Feeling, I'm Happy Again (Table of Contents: 1)

Celestial Mechanics / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Kurt Wilcken

Pencils

Gary Washington

Inks

Keith Aiken

Letters

Gary Washington

Characters

Widget Wilhelmina Jones; Quarkstomper; Terebinthia Jones [Widget's sister]; Xenobia Desree [Flange]; Shan; Tristan Bok

Synopsis

Space travel is a Halplex monopoly in the 27th century. But when Widget finds and repairs an old derelict starship, she discovers the secrets of the spacedrive and decides to go into business for herself. Terebinthia and her friends Shan and Flange are about to graduate from the Space Patrol Officer Training Academy on Luna City, when Flange's old boyfriend, Tristan Bok, shows up. He is an assassin for Halplex assigned to eliminate the hacker that has tapped into sensitive material about the spacedrive.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Celestial Mechanics / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Gary Washington; Matt Thompson; Tim Dzon

Inks

Gary Washington; Matt Thompson; Tim Dzon

Characters

Widget Wilhelmina Jones; Quarkstomper; Flange; Shan; Tristan Bok

Indexer Notes

Centerfold illustration. The illustration is labeled "Art by Gary Washington, Matt Thompson & Tim Dzon", but there is no reference about how these people contributed to the art.

A Brief History Of Space Travel (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Kurt Wilcken

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Background for the comic story in the form of an excerpted article from "Ad Astra per Ineptia" by Mervyn Alquist, Halplex Publishing Division, 2732.