V #1 [Direct]
(February 1985)

DC, 1985 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-11-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Marv Wolfman (editor); Robert Greenberger (associate editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

Based on the television series.
Copyright © 1984 Warner Bros. Inc.

Public Catalog with the United States Copyright Office reports publication date as reported to them being November 6, 1984. Also reports as being created in 1984. Copyright in notice reported by D.C. Comics, Inc. on May 16, 1986, copyright claimant Warner Brothers, Inc. Copyright registration number TX0001661415. Supplemental registration (application states V characters and textual treatments as developed for the TV series are preexisting material) number TX0001844238.

On-sale date confirmed from DC Releases #9 and 10.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

V / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Eduardo Barreto (signed)
Inks
Eduardo Barreto (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino ?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The visitors are our friends
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Mike Donovan; Dr. Juliet Parrish; Ham Tyler
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Huffy / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

City on the Edge (Table of Contents: 2)

V / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates
Pencils
Carmine Infantino
Inks
Tony DeZuniga
Colors
Michele Wolfman
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
G-1670
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Julie Parrish; Mike Donovan; Andy Gooder; Chris; Ham Tyler; Adile; Elias; Lorne; Willie; Boyce; Hart; Diana; Lydia; Parnell; Nathan Bates
Synopsis
A clash between the resistance fighters and the Visitors occurs against orders of the Visitor command, and one group of the resistance fighters discovers a town bearing strange "gifts" to the Visitors.
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Star Trek II Starship Combat Game (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Fasa / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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

Spanners Galaxy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Remco Toys; Warlord / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

DC Heroes Role Playing Game (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Mayfair Games / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

V-Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Marv Wolfman
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1843
Synopsis
No reader letters, this is instead a discussion of how this series was put together.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Revell Models / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Activision / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["The visitors are our friends"]
    V
  2. 1. ["Crank up the power of Pro Thunder!"]
    Huffy
  3. 2. City on the Edge
    V
  4. 3. Star Trek II Starship Combat Game
    Fasa
  5. 4. ["Did you say... money... prizes?"]
    Grit Newspaper
  6. 5. ["Oink!"]
    Spanners Galaxy
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
  8. 7. ["Opened at last!"]
    Superman
  9. 8. ["Cross swords with champions!"]
    Remco Toys; Warlord
  10. 9. DC Heroes Role Playing Game
    Mayfair Games
  11. 10. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  12. 11. [no title indexed]
    V-Mail
  13. 12. ["On sale right now!!"]
    DC Comics
  14. 13. ["Think dirty."]
    Revell Models
  15. 14. ["Lost. Endless caverns."]
    Activision
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Chris Boyko
  • Peter Croome
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore
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