(August 1983)

First, 1983 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-04-12
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
First Comics, Inc
Brand
First Comics
Editing
Mike Gold

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #23. Release date April 1983 from listing within the regular feature "First Notes".

The Origin Part 1 (Table of Contents)

Jon Sable / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Grell (signed)
Inks
Mike Grell (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A storm over Eden
Genre
adventure
Characters
Jon Sable
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Jon Sable, Freelance (First, 1983 series) #3
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Keeping a Good Thing Going (Table of Contents: 1)

First Notes / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike Gold
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
When my old buddy Mike Grell called me, oh about sixteen months ago, and told me Starslayer was available - this was after we agreed to do Jon Sable, Freelance - I felt like I was slapped in the face with a twenty pound bag of deja vu.

Indexer Notes

On the inside front cover.

A Storm Over Eden (Table of Contents: 2)

Jon Sable / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script
Mike Grell
Pencils
Mike Grell
Inks
Mike Grell
Colors
Janice Cohen
Letters
Peter Iro
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Where is he?
Genre
adventure
Characters
Eden Kendall; Myke Blackmon; Hal Brooks; Jon Sable; Mr. Sundra; Gunter Zahn; Elise McKenna Sable; Mark Andrew Sable; Jacob; Heather Sable; José; Kareem; Billy-Bob; J. Michael Murphy
Synopsis
Myke reads Jon's autobiography.
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Indexer Notes

The Origin Part 1

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

advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[Glenwood Distributors Inc.] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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

Freelance Writing / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Mike Gold
Pencils
various
Inks
various
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
As of this moment, we're still about two weeks shy of the release of Jon Sable, Freelance #1, but we still have a couple of letters to run from our advance mailing.
Characters
Jon Sable; Torin Mac Quillon

Indexer Notes

Letters from Steve Anderson, and Mike Bannon.

[First in May! First in Excitement!] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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

[American Flagg!] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

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

[First Comics] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

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

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Origin Part 1
    Jon Sable
  2. 1. Keeping a Good Thing Going
    First Notes
  3. 2. A Storm Over Eden
    Jon Sable
  4. 3. ["Fantasy & comic art from Bud Plant"]
  5. 4. [Glenwood Distributors Inc.]
  6. 5. ["As of this moment, we're still about two weeks shy of the release of Jon Sable, Freelance #1, but we still have a couple of letters to run from our advance mailing."]
    Freelance Writing
  7. 6. [First in May! First in Excitement!]
  8. 7. [American Flagg!]
  9. 8. [First Comics]
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