(August 1975)
Seaboard,
1975 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- 6 times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1975-05-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Seaboard Periodicals Inc.
- Editing
- Jeff Rovin (editor-in-chief); Richard Meyers (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from internal document posted by Paul Kupperberg to Facebook on 17 September 2019 detailing release dates for various Atlas publications. Other information for this issue from that document:
Date material due at World Color Printers: March 8, 1975.
Date shipping of comic started: April 15, 1975.
Copies printed for U.S.A. and Canada: 100,000.
Copies printed for England: 25,000.
Total copies printed: 125,000.
Date material due at World Color Printers: March 8, 1975.
Date shipping of comic started: April 15, 1975.
Copies printed for U.S.A. and Canada: 100,000.
Copies printed for England: 25,000.
Total copies printed: 125,000.
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Pencils
- Russ Heath; John Severin; Walter Simonson (illustrations)
- Inks
- Russ Heath; John Severin; Walter Simonson (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Ishiro Shimura; Michael Croft ("Big Mike"); Abe Torry; PFC Robert "Bobby" Carson
Indexer Notes
Table of Contents page includes credits, indicia and images from interior stories.
Robbery!
text story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We are printing the following letter intact...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Juan Torres; Jorgie
The Temple of the Spider
comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Archie Goodwin (credited)
- Pencils
- Walter Simonson (credited)
- Inks
- Walter Simonson (credited)
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The battle had begun at dawn...
- Genre
- horror-suspense; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Ishiro Shimura; Harada Togo (death); Koji (death); male pilgrim (spider, death); female pilgrim (spider, death)
- Reprints
-
in L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. (Editions du Fromage, 1976 series) #21 (4e trimestre 1981) -
in Swords of Valor (A-Plus Comics, 1990 series) #3 (1990 [copyright date])
-
The Kromag Saga
Kromag / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Gabriel Levy (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Sparling (credited)
- Inks
- Jack Sparling (credited)
- Letters
- John Duffy
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The sky grows heavy with elemental fury...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Kromag; Nean (Kromag's mate); Bekmin (Kromag and Nean's young son); Kromag's brother (cameo); two other females
Tough Cop
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- John Albano
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (credited)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (credited)
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You move quickly to the other side of the street...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Michael Croft ("Big Mike", retired police officer); Jimmy (police officer, Mike's nephew); Abe Torry (death); Mr. Torry (Abe's brother, death); Abe Torry's two henchmen (deaths of both)
- Reprints
- in L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. (Editions du Fromage, 1976 series) #12 (3e trimestre 1979)
-
in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #30 (mayo 1983)
-
The Towering Inferno
text article / 6 pages
- Script
- Carl Macek (credited)
- Pencils
- ? (photographs)
- Inks
- ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Keywords
- movie review
Town Tamer
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Steve Mitchell (credited)
- Pencils
- John Severin (signed as Severin)
- Inks
- John Severin (signed as Severin)
- Letters
- John Duffy
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- France, 1944.
- Genre
- war
- Characters
- PFC Robert "Bobby" Carson (U.S. soldier, death); Harve (U.S. soldier, death); Mueller (German soldier, apparent death)
- Reprints
- in L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. (Editions du Fromage, 1976 series) #12 (3e trimestre 1979)
- in Ilustración + Comix Internacional (Toutain Editor, 1980 series) #31 (junio 1983)
-
- Keywords
- World War II
A Job Well Done
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ric Meyers (credited as Richard Meyers)
- Pencils
- Alex Toth (signed)
- Inks
- Alex Toth (signed)
- Letters
- Alex Toth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good God!
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Officer Jeff Landers (death); Rog (Jeff's ex-partner); Police Commander Austin; Pat Landers (Jeff's wife); Todd Landers (Jeff and Pat's son); Weiss (drug dealer)
- Reprints
- in L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. (Editions du Fromage, 1976 series) #11 (2e trimestre 1979)
- in 1984 (Toutain Editor, 1978 series) #48 (enero 1983)
-
in Monsters Attack (Globe Communications, 1989 series) #5 (December 1990) -
in James Bond (Semic, 1979 series) #1/1991 (uke 6 1991)
-
Indexer Notes
Story takes place in 1990.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Valley of Dinosaurs
Kromag -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
Robbery!
-
3.
The Temple of the Spider
-
4.
The Kromag Saga
Kromag -
5.
Tough Cop
-
6.
The Towering Inferno
-
7.
Town Tamer
-
8.
A Job Well Done
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Paul Lefebvre
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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