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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published December 1988
Cover Price 2.00 USD
Pages 36
Editing Fred Burke
Notes Indicia: DIRTY PAIR no. 1

Cover Details - "At Last Their Own Comic!"

Characters Kei; Yuri
Genre science fiction
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Colors Adam Warren
Notes Indicia: DIRTY PAIR no. 1

1 page The Penumbra text article "LEST WE GET SWELL-HEADED:"

Script Catherine Yronwode
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover B&W indicia page editorial about the mainstream media's reactions to "graphic albums".

25 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] story "BIOHAZARD"

Characters Syke; Tech; M-97; Luther; Corrigan; Kei; Yuri; Alex Goldin; Mughi; Abraham Streib; Kelvin A. O'Donnell
Synopsis The "Lovely Angels" are assigned to recover a stolen brainchip.
Genre science fiction
Script Haruka Takachiho (creator of characters and situations); Lela Dowling (Mughi design); Toren Smith; Adam Warren
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Letters L. Lois Buhalis
Notes Toshio Okada and Hiroshi Takegawa are given "special thanks" for helping arrange the rights for an American comics adaptation of the Dirty Pair. Includes a cameo spoof of Shitîhantâ [City Hunter].
Reprinted in Dirty Pair Book One: Biohazards Collection (Eclipse, 1990 series) #[nn] [hardcover]; in Dirty Pair Book One: Biohazards Collection (Eclipse, 1990 series) #[nn] [softcover]; in Dirty Pair: Biohazards, The (Dark Horse, 1998 series) #[nn]

7 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes house ads: Appleseed; James Bond: Permission to Die; Tapping the Vein; Brought To Light; Pigeons From Hell; Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Poster; Scout: War Shaman; back issue list; back cover: Brought To Light; Iran-Contra Scandal Trading Cards

2 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "DiRTy PAiR"

Characters Yuri; Kei
Genre science fiction
Script Fred Burke; Toren Smith; Adam Warren
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Letters Stan Woch (logo design); typeset (text)
Notes Essays describing how Toren Smith and Adam Warren got the rights to do an American comics adaptation of the Dirty Pair. Illustrated with an early character design by Adam Warren & a panel from page 14 of issue #2.