(October 1993)

Dark Horse, 1993 Series
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Price
2.50 USD; 3.15 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Dark Horse Comics Inc.
Brand
Dark Horse Comics [chess piece]
Editing
John Weeks

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Colors
Chris Chalenor
Letters
?

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Indexer Notes

Wrap-around cover.

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

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Letters
typeset

Reprints
  • from ?

Indexer Notes

Inside cover illustration.

Meteor Morgan (Table of Contents: 2)

Meteor Morgan / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Basil Wolverton
Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Letters
Basil Wolverton

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Meteor Morgan; Jolok
Synopsis
Meteor Morgan and Jolok fight Martian thieves who want to steal the mail on a rocket from Mars to Earth.
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Indexer Notes

"This circa 1939 Meteor Man episode was never continued so far as anyone knows, these six pages apparently being the only survivors of an unsold series. From the Glenn Bray collection."

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

Spacehawk / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Basil Wolverton
Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Letters
Basil Wolverton

First Line of Dialogue or Text
This sensitive device to pick up telephone messages...
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Spacehawk
Synopsis
Spacehawk prevents a "enemy" ship carrying midget submarines from sinking an American ship carrying a cargo of Red Cross supplies.
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Indexer Notes

Story from 1940 or 1941, before the United State entered the war in Europe. Un-named enemy's insignia is a stylized swastika.

Biographically Basil (Table of Contents: 4)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bill Spicer; Basil Wolverton
Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Reprinted excerpt of the Wolverton interview from Graphic Story Magazine #14 (Winter 1971-72) along with a few paragraphs by Spicer. Includes an illustration by Wolverton from his Apocalypse series.

[The End of the World] (Table of Contents: 5)

illustration / 12 pages (report information)

Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton

Indexer Notes

Artwork from Wolverton's classic Apocalypse series, a series of illustrations depicting the biblical end of the world. Done either at the request of or with the assistance of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.

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

Jumpin' Jupiter / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Basil Wolverton
Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Letters
Basil Wolverton

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'm headin' for the void, Floyd!
Genre
science fiction; humor
Characters
Jumpin' Jupiter; Royal High Oof
Synopsis
Jumpin' Jupiter lands on a planet where it is forbidden to laugh.
Reprints
  • from Weird Tales of the Future (Key Publications, 1952 series) #?

Rocket Rider and His Interplanetary Ferry (Table of Contents: 7)

Rocket Rider / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Basil Wolverton
Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton
Letters
Basil Wolverton

Genre
science fiction; humor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

First page only of a story "possibly planned for one of the numerous 1950s cartoon and photo girly mags." "..unknown to us if the story was ever finished or not."

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Basil Wolverton
Inks
Basil Wolverton

Genre
science fiction

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. "..an example of Wolverton's early '30s pulp art, drawn in a Hugo Gernsbackian Amazing Stories mode and probably never published at that time."

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. Meteor Morgan
    Meteor Morgan
  4. 3. ["This sensitive device to pick up telephone messages..."]
    Spacehawk
  5. 4. Biographically Basil
  6. 5. [The End of the World]
  7. 6. ["I'm headin' for the void, Floyd!"]
    Jumpin' Jupiter
  8. 7. Rocket Rider and His Interplanetary Ferry
    Rocket Rider
  9. 8. [no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Merlin Haas
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Roger Reus
  • Per Sandell
  • Rick Schindler