ElfQuest
#3
[$1.00 first printing]
([December] 1978)
WaRP Graphics,
1978 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1978-12-13
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Warp Graphics
- Brand
-
Warp Graphics [one line]
- Editing
- Richard Pini (editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. copyright registration filing. There is no date on the book beyond the copyright year.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Challenge
ElfQuest / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Wendy Pini (signed as WPini)
- Inks
- Wendy Pini (signed as WPini)
- Colors
- Wendy Pini (signed as WPini)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Cutter; Leetah; Rayek; Savah; Skywise
- Reprints
-
in Abenteuer in der Elfenwelt (Bastei Verlag, 1990 series) #2 - Duell in Sorgenend - in Abenteuer in der Elfenwelt (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1997 series) #2 - Die letzte Prüfung
- in Abenteuer in der Elfenwelt (Bastei Verlag, 1984 series) #3 - Die Herausforderung (1984)
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in ElfQuest (Arboris, 1983 series) #3 - De tweestrijd (1984) -
in Alverfolket (Alvglans, 1983 series) #3 (1984) [USA, januari 1979] -
in Alvefolket (Semic, 1985 series) #3 - Utfordringen [1. opplag] (1985) -
in The Complete ElfQuest (WaRP Graphics, 1988 series) #1 - Fire and Flight (August 1988) - in ElfQuest (WaRP Graphics, 1993 series) #1 - Fire and Flight (May 1993)
- in ElfQuest Reader's Collection (WaRP Graphics, 1998 series) #1 - Fire and Flight ([May] 1998) [black and white]
- in ElfQuest Archives (DC, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003) which is reprinted
-
in Los Archivos de ElfQuest (NORMA Editorial, 2004 series) #1 (diciembre 2004) - in ElfQuest Gallery Edition (Dark Horse, 2014 series) (October 2014)
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Meet the Wolfriders
ElfQuest / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Clearbrook; Cutter; Dart; Dewshine; Moonshade; Newstar; Nightfall; One-Eye; Pike; Rainsong; Redlance; Scouter; Skywise; Strongbow; Treestump; Wing; Woodlock
- Synopsis
- An illustrated listing of all 17 Elfquest Wolfrider characters.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; text and illustrations.
The Challenge
ElfQuest / comic story / 32 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Cutter; Dart; Dewshine; Leetah; Minyah; Moonshade; Newstar; Nightrunner; One-Eye; Pike; Rainsong; Rayek; Savah; Scouter; Shenshen; Skywise; Strongbow; Sun-Toucher; Toorah; Treestump; Wing; Woodlock
- Synopsis
- Rayek challenges Cutter to a series of contests for Leetah's hand.
- Reprints
- in ElfQuest (Donning Company, 1981 series) #1 ([November] 1981) [color] which is reprinted
- in Alvefolket (Semic, 1985 series) #3 - Utfordringen (1985) which is reprinted
- in Alvefolket bok (Semic, 1985 series) #1 (1985)
- in Abenteuer in der Elfenwelt (Bastei Verlag, 1984 series) #3 - Die Herausforderung (1984)
- in Alverfolket (Alvglans, 1983 series) #3 (1984) [USA, januari 1979]
- in ElfQuest (Marvel, 1985 series) #4 (November 1985) [part 1; pp. 1-21]
- in ElfQuest (Marvel, 1985 series) #5 (December 1985) [pp. 22-32; part 2] which is reprinted
- in The Complete ElfQuest (WaRP Graphics, 1988 series) #1 - Fire and Flight (August 1988)
- in ElfQuest (WaRP Graphics, 1993 series) #1 - Fire and Flight (May 1993)
- in ElfQuest Reader's Collection (WaRP Graphics, 1998 series) #1 - Fire and Flight ([May] 1998)
- in ElfQuest Archives (DC, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003) which is reprinted
- in Los Archivos de ElfQuest (NORMA Editorial, 2004 series) #1 (diciembre 2004)
- in The Complete ElfQuest (Dark Horse, 2014 series) #1 (August 2014)
- in ElfQuest Gallery Edition (Dark Horse, 2014 series) (October 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Savah makes an unnamed appearance on the last page of the previous issue.
"Thank you for the copies of ELFQUEST..."
Elfquotes / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Wendy Pini
- Inks
- Wendy Pini
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Cutter
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Letters from Mark Evanier; Lynn Kingsley; Bill & Marcella Malik; Pride Haworth; Rick Norwood; Trina Robbins; and Kevin Mathey. No responses, just summary at end saying only room for one page of letters this issue.
Rayek
ElfQuest / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Wendy Pini (signed as WPini)
- Inks
- Wendy Pini (signed as WPini)
- Colors
- Wendy Pini (signed as WPini)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Rayek
- Reprints
- in Abenteuer in der Elfenwelt (Bastei Verlag, 1984 series) #3 - Die Herausforderung (1984)
- in Alvefolket (Semic, 1985 series) #2 - Kampen om Sorgenfri (1985) which is reprinted
- in Alvefolket (Semic, 1985 series) #3 - Utfordringen (1985)
- in Alvefolket bok (Semic, 1985 series) #1 (1985)
- in The Complete ElfQuest (WaRP Graphics, 1988 series) #1 - Fire and Flight (August 1988)
- in ElfQuest (WaRP Graphics, 1993 series) #1 - Fire and Flight (May 1993)
- in ElfQuest Reader's Collection (WaRP Graphics, 1998 series) #1 - Fire and Flight ([May] 1998) [black and white]
- in ElfQuest Archives (DC, 2003 series) #1 (November 2003) which is reprinted
- in Los Archivos de ElfQuest (NORMA Editorial, 2004 series) #1 (diciembre 2004)
- in ElfQuest Gallery Edition (Dark Horse, 2014 series) (October 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Back cover
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Challenge
ElfQuest -
1.
Meet the Wolfriders
ElfQuest -
2.
The Challenge
ElfQuest -
3.
"Thank you for the copies of ELFQUEST..."
Elfquotes -
4.
Rayek
ElfQuest
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Ralf Haring
- R. S. Martin
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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