Deadman
#1
(May 1985)
DC,
1985 Series
- Price
- 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1985-01-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Nicola Cuti (reprint editor); Jack Miller (original editor); Joe Orlando (original editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #12.
[no title indexed]
Deadman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Inks
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Deadman [Boston Brand]
- Reprints
-
in All American Comics (Comic Art, 1989 series) #15 -
in The Deadman Collection (DC, 2001 series) (2001 [January 2002]) [partial image used on dust jacket] - in Deadman (DC, 2011 series) #2 ([April] 2012) [modified]
- in Deadman Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) (2020 [February 2021])
-
[Strange Adventures #206]
Deadman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Deadman [Boston Brand]
- Reprints
- from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #206 (November 1967) [black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Who Has Been Lying in My Grave?
Deadman / comic story / 16.5 pages
- Script
- Arnold Drake (credited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (credited)
- Inks
- George Roussos (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
Deadman [original logo]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Deadman [Boston Brand]; Lorna Hill; Tiny; Vashnu; Heldrich; Leary; Toby; Rama Kushna; Constable Ramsey
- Synopsis
- Shot during a performance, trapeze artist Boston Brand dies, only to find that his spirit lives on with the ability to inhabit the bodies of others. By the will of Rama Kushna his spirit will walk among the living until his killer is found.
- Reprints
- from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #205 (October 1967)
-
in Super Star Comics (Arédit-Artima, 1986 series) #12 (juillet 1987)
-
Indexer Notes
Reprints origin and first appearance of Deadman.
Arnold Drake Co-Creator/Writer
text article / 0.5 page
- Script
- Nicola Cuti (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
How Arnold Drake co-created Deadman.
An Eye for an Eye!
Deadman / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Carmine Infantino (credited) (plot); Jack Miller (credited)
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (credited)
- Inks
- George Roussos (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Deadman [original logo]
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Deadman [Boston Brand]; Lorna Hill; Jeff Carling; Tiny; Vashnu (flashback); Heldrick (cameo flashback); Constable Ramsey (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- Lorna's criminal brother Jeff shows up at the circus eager to get his hands on the insurance money from Boston Brand's death, and Deadman suspects him of the murder.
- Reprints
- from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #206 (November 1967)
- in Super Star Comics (Arédit-Artima, 1986 series) #12 (juillet 1987)
-
Indexer Notes
Original index credits Arnold Drake as writer and says Jack Miller is incorrect.
Across 17 pages, but pages 8 and 17 are 1/2-pages.
Carmine Infantino Co-Creator/Artist
text article / 0.5 page
- Script
- Nicola Cuti
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
How Carmine Infantino co-created Deadman.
The Game
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Inks
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Young Jamie Markus takes refuge from a storm in an old deserted house and spends the night playing a game with a strange being who has his face.
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #178 (January-February 1969)
-
Indexer Notes
Story ends on inside back cover page.
[no title indexed]
Deadman / illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Inks
- Neal Adams (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Deadman [Boston Brand]
Indexer Notes
Partial cover image on back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Deadman -
1.
[Strange Adventures #206]
Deadman -
2.
Who Has Been Lying in My Grave?
Deadman -
3.
Arnold Drake Co-Creator/Writer
-
4.
An Eye for an Eye!
Deadman -
5.
Carmine Infantino Co-Creator/Artist
-
6.
Who Is... Azrael?
The Teen Titans -
7.
The Game
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Deadman
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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