Mage
#4
([August] 1984)
Comico,
1984 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 1.95 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-09-20 ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- COMICO the Comic Company
- Brand
-
C
- Editing
- Diana Schutz (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #56.
[no title indexed]
Mage / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Matt Wagner (signed)
- Inks
- Rich Rankin (signed)
- Colors
- Matt Wagner
- Letters
- Matt Wagner ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ogre!?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Kevin Matchstick; Marhault Ogre
- Reprints
-
in Mage -- The Hero Discovered (Donning Company, 1987 series) #1 (March 1987) - in Mage: The Hero Discovered (Image, 1998 series) #2 (December 1998)
- in Mage (Image, 2004 series) #1 - The Hero Discovered ([April] 2004)
- in Mage (Image, 2004 series) #1 - The Hero Discovered ([December] 2004)
-
Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover.
Foreword
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 0.7 page
- Script
- Matt Wagner
- Pencils
- Matt Wagner (illustration)
- Inks
- Matt Wagner (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
Mage / recap / 0.3 page
- Script
- Matt Wagner
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Chapter 4: O What A Rash And Bloody Deed
Mage / comic story / 27 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Kevin Matchstick; Mirth; Edsel Marhault Ogre; Grackleflints [Lazlo]
- Synopsis
- Kevin defeats the Marhault Ogre, sent against him by the Umbra Sprite.
- Reprints
- in Magebook (Comico, 1985 series) #1 (1985)
- in Mage -- The Hero Discovered (Donning Company, 1987 series) #1 (March 1987)
- in Mage: The Hero Discovered (Image, 1998 series) #2 (December 1998) which is reprinted
-
in Mage: el descubrimiento del héroe (Dolmen Editorial, 2003 series) #1 ([septiembre] 2003) - in Mage (Image, 2004 series) #1 - The Hero Discovered ([April] 2004)
- in Mage (Image, 2004 series) #1 - The Hero Discovered ([December] 2004)
- in Mage, Book One: The Hero Discovered (Image, 2017 series) #1 (July 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Part 4 of 15 of the Hero Discovered storyline.
[no title indexed]
Incantations / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Matt Wagner
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Matt,...
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Jennifer Bowles; Gary D. Fritz; Jonny Tomanio; Tristan Scott; Kevin Dooley; Maurice J. Forrester III and Joe Cassidy.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Ogre!?"]
Mage -
1.
Foreword
-
2.
[no title indexed]
Mage -
3.
[no title indexed]
-
4.
Chapter 4: O What A Rash And Bloody Deed
Mage -
5.
["Dear Matt,..."]
Incantations -
6.
Evangeline #3
Evangeline -
7.
David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview #14
-
8.
Elementals #2. Don't Be Caught Short!
Elementals -
9.
Coming This November from COMICO
Macross
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ken Austin
- Dwayne Best
- Steve Coates
- Kauldi Gilibert
- Juan Gonzalez
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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