(August 1983)

Eclipse, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.50 USD; 1.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-08-23 ?
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Eclipse Enterprises
Brand
Eclipse Comics [orbit]
Editing
Dean Mullaney (editor)

Issue Notes

Published by arrangement with Star*Reach Productions. ISSN #0737-6162. On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #31.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

DNAgents / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Will Meugniot (signed as WM)
Inks
Al Gordon (signed as AG)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Sham; Surge; Tank
Cover Thumbnail for The DNAgents (Eclipse, 1983 series) #5
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Melissa Siren (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Sabre / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Who Killed Angela Krell the Second Time? (Table of Contents: 2)

DNAgents / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier (credited)
Pencils
Will Meugniot (credited)
Inks
Al Gordon (credited)
Colors
Janice Cohen (credited)
Letters
Carrie McCarthy (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
DNAgents [Amber; Rainbow; Sham; Surge; Tank]; Casey; Crossfire [Jeff Baker]; Dr. Harden; Hotchkiss; Kim; Lucius Krell; Luger; Rene; Chic Saxon; Tawny Shepherd
Synopsis
Surge tries again to attack Crossfire and his teammates try to stop him. Their appearance in public draws out Luger, who has orders to assassinate them. Crossfire and Luger are both arrested.
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Letters (Table of Contents: 3)

Letters [DNAgents] / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier (credited)
Pencils
Will Meugniot (signed as WM) (masthead illustration)
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Mark Evanier answers letters from Rick Askenase, Ian Trybulec, Lisa Simms, Barb Schroeder and Roland Schama. He also reveals that "our original contract with Eclipse was only for six issues" but that sales have warranted an ongoing series.

The DNAgents Scrapbook (Table of Contents: 4)

DNAgents / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Evanier
Pencils
Will Meugniot (signed as Meugniot)
Inks
Al Gordon (signed as GORDON)
Colors
Jo Meugniot (credited)
Letters
Carrie McCarthy
Genre
superhero
Characters
DNAgents [Amber; Rainbow; Sham; Surge; Tank]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pin-ups: one of the team and one each of the individual members.

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

DNAgents / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

One man against the mob is suicide... (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Ms. Tree / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Aztec Ace / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    DNAgents
  2. 1. Melissa Siren
    Sabre
  3. 2. Who Killed Angela Krell the Second Time?
    DNAgents
  4. 3. Letters
    Letters [DNAgents]
  5. 4. The DNAgents Scrapbook
    DNAgents
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    DNAgents
  7. 6. One man against the mob is suicide...
    Ms. Tree
  8. 7. ["Making the past safe from the future"]
    Aztec Ace
This issue was modified by, among others
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  • Steve Coates
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Richard Thomson
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