Aztec Ace
#4
(July 1984)
Eclipse,
1984 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1984-07-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Eclipse Enterprises
- Brand
-
Eclipse Comics [orbit]
- Editing
- cat yronwode (credited as Catherine Yronwode) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date concurs with on-sale date from Amazing Heroes (Fantagraphics, 1981 series) #51 (July 15, 1984).
Raging Against the Gods... in Necropolis Nights
Aztec Ace / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dan Day (signed as
DAN DAY [trident "Y"]) - Inks
- Dan Day (signed as DAN DAY [trident "Y"])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Ace [Caza]
- Reprints
-
in Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection (Dark Horse, 2022 series) (August 2022)
-
Indexer Notes
The cover sports the emblem "NRA Member" for the National Recovery Act, a U.S. President Roosevelt administration's New Deal program during the 1930s.
[no title indexed]
Sabre / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- José Ortiz
- Inks
- José Ortiz
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The book and the man – they're still one of a kind!
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Sabre
- Synopsis
- Promotional house advertisement for the new artist for Sabre #10 (Eclipse, 1984).
Indexer Notes
Interior front cover.
Necropolis Nights
Aztec Ace / comic story / 28 pages
- Script
- Doug Moench (credited)
- Pencils
- Dan Day (credited)
- Inks
- Nestor Redondo (credited)
- Colors
- Denis McFarling (credited); Philip DeWalt (credited as Phil DeWalt)
- Letters
- Esphid Mahilum (credited); Pete Sulit (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But I had been there before. Long before.
- Genre
- science fiction; adventure
- Characters
- Ace [Caza]; Bridget Chronopolis; Aida Raman; Head [Sigmund Freud (disembodied head)]; Nightgaunt; Shakreen; Nine-Crocodile
- Reprints
- in Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection (Dark Horse, 2022 series) (August 2022)
-
[no title indexed]
Notes from Surf City / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Jan Mullaney; Dean Mullaney
- Pencils
- Dean Mullaney (signed as DM) (letterhead art)
- Inks
- Dean Mullaney (signed as DM) (letterhead art)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
There is no first line of text as this is not a text story. This is an in house column with several sub-sections with news of the comics business.
[no title indexed]
Aztec Ace / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Twice upon a time, it took time to make a hero...
- Genre
- adventure
- Synopsis
- Promotional house advertisement for subscriptions to Aztec Ace.
[no title indexed]
Vreebs / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Doug Moench
- Pencils
- ? (masthead design)
- Inks
- ? (masthead design)
- Colors
- ? (masthead design)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Eric Yarber, Mark Pruitt, Frater Chao-Tzu (aka Roldo), Gabriel Carras, and Lou Mougin. Replies from Moench.
[no title indexed]
Crossfire / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He used to work the wrong side of the law...and everybody wanted him dead.
- Synopsis
- Promotional house advertisement for the new series Crossfire (Eclipse, 1984).
Indexer Notes
Interior back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Raging Against the Gods... in Necropolis Nights
Aztec Ace -
1.
["The book and the man – they're still one of a kind!"]
Sabre -
2.
Necropolis Nights
Aztec Ace -
3.
[no title indexed]
Notes from Surf City -
4.
["Twice upon a time, it took time to make a hero..."]
Aztec Ace -
5.
[no title indexed]
Vreebs -
6.
["He used to work the wrong side of the law...and everybody wanted him dead."]
Crossfire -
7.
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- Steve Coates
- Tim Craig
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Dave Redmond
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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