Issue | #1 |
Published | April 1983 |
Cover Price | $2.00 |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Bill Black |
Notes | Anthology series featuring new characters, revivals from Bill Black's 1970's comics, and material left-over from CHARLTON BULLSEYE. |
Characters | The Shade; Rea Williams |
Genre | Occult; Super-hero |
Pencils | George Perez |
Inks | George Perez |
Letters | George Perez |
Notes | Anthology series featuring new characters, revivals from Bill Black's 1970's comics, and material left-over from CHARLTON BULLSEYE. |
Script | Bill Black |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Introduction to the Americomics line (later renamed AC). |
Characters | Rea Williams; Roger Brant (The Shade); Chen Lo (priest & mystic); Thurston Lahr (drug lord) |
Synopsis | After soldier Roger Brant loses the use of his legs in Viet Nam, mystic Chen Lo teaches him to unleash the powers of his mind & astral form to become The Shade. Back in America, he enters the dreams of Rea Williams, who plans to murder the man responsible for her brother's drug-related death. |
Genre | Occult; Super-hero; War |
Script | Bill Black |
Pencils | Bill Black |
Inks | Bill Black |
Colors | Bill Black |
Letters | Bill Black |
Notes | The Shade created by Martin Greim & Bill Black, partly inspired by the Golden Age SANDMAN as done by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. Retelling of stories from PARAGON SUPER HEROES #1 and PARAGON #3 (Paragon, 1971). Original version reprinted in FANDOM'S FINEST COMICS VOL.2 (Hamster Press, 1998). |
Characters | Blue Beetle; Captain Atom; Nightshade; The Question |
Genre | Super-hero |
Pencils | Greg Guler |
Inks | Bill Black |
Notes | Ad / SENTINELS OF JUSTICE featuring the Charlton "Action Heroes". |
Characters | Jon Nyte / Jonathan Knight (The Slayer); Captain Scott (police officer); Black Starr |
Synopsis | Jon Nyte, intergalactic policeman ("Slayer") from the planet Toru, is assigned to Earth and takes the guise of a police officer in NYC. |
Genre | Super-hero |
Script | Craig Zablo |
Pencils | John Beatty |
Inks | Jerry Ordway |
Colors | John Beatty |
Letters | Jerry Ordway |
Notes | The Slayer created by John Beatty & R.E.M. Clements. |
Pencils | Paul Gulacy |
Inks | Paul Gulacy |
Notes | Ad / "Galaxy Gal" STAR FEMS cover / poster. Gulacy did quite a few covers for AC around this time. |
Characters | The Messenger; Frank Taveras; The Shade |
Pencils | Jerry Ordway; Rik Levins |
Inks | Jerry Ordway; Willie Blyberg |
Notes | Ad / AMERICOMICS #2 |
Characters | Phineas Crump; Commodore Faraday; Dr. Yuri Gargovich; Captain Freedom; The Hood (villain); The Liberty Corps |
Genre | Science fiction; Super-hero |
Script | Bill Black |
Pencils | Bill Black |
Inks | Bill Black |
Colors | Bill Black |
Letters | Bill Black |
Notes | 4-page preview; includes upcoming cover of AMERICOMICS #5 (December 1983). |
Characters | Bullseye; Stuntman; Captain Paragon |
Pencils | Jack Kirby (#2-3); Pat Broderick (#4) |
Inks | Joe Simon (#2-3); Bill Black (#4) |
Notes | Ad / BILL BLACK'S FUN COMICS #2, 3, 4 |
Characters | Captain Freedom; The Hood |
Genre | Super-hero |
Pencils | Willie Blyberg |
Inks | Willie Blyberg |
Letters | Willie Blyberg |