The Fly #9 [Direct]

(October 1984)

To Kill a Fly! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Fly / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Marty Greim

Pencils

Dick Ayers

Inks

Rex Lindsey

Colors

Barry Grossman

Letters

Rod Ollerenshaw

Genre

superhero

Characters

Fly [Thomas Troy]; Red Rogue; the Shield [Joe Higgins]; Turan (flashback); William Gates; a Thomas Troy duplicate

Synopsis

The Fly and the Shield capture the man who successfully framed Thomas Troy.

Indexer Notes

with the Shield, vs the Red Rogue, 1st.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Crusader Comments / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Rich Buckler

Pencils

Carl Taylor (signed)

Inks

Sam de la Rosa (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

The Fox

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

The Jaguar / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Charles Ward; ?

Pencils

Dick Ayers; Steve Ditko (see notes)

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

Barry Grossman ?

Letters

Bill Yoshida ?

Editing

Robin Snyder

Genre

superhero

Characters

Jaguar; Cat Girl; Fuad Ramses; Bori (Fuad's wife); John Nightspoor; Catherine

Synopsis

John tells Catherine one of the Jaguar's adventures involving Cat Girl.

Indexer Notes

Additional information from Charles Ward:

While Victor edited the Fly story in this issue, Robin Snyder completed his editing of the Jaguar tale before he and Steve left Archie.

The working title of this story was "The Jaguar in Egypt."

Steve Ditko should also be credited, along with Dick Ayers, as one of the pencilers of this story. Robin Snyder had inherited this Dick Ayers penciled story when he first started to work for Archie on their Red Circle line.

Charles asked to see the written plot/script for the story but he believes that neither Robin nor Rich Buckler knew who had originated this Biblically-based adventure and could not find anything in writing that pertained to the story. As the style of the piece didn't fit what they had in mind for the Jaguar relaunch, its use was postponed until the initial continued storyline was completed.

When Robin sent Charles the pencils after he had completed his script for Steve's debut on the strip in issue #8, he did his best to adapt the extant work to their new version of the world of the Jaguar. He did this by turning the story into an "untold tall tale." As such, his new script contained extensive art and storytelling revisions. Steve made, therefore, many penciling changes on the first 9 pages, as well as totally replacing Ayers original finale that was page 10. Steve then, as indicated, inked the whole job.