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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published June 1989
Cover Price $2.00 USD
Pages 36
Editing Fred Burke
Notes Cover number: 1 of 5; indicia: DIRTY PAIR II no. 1

Cover Details - "THEY'RE BACK!"

Characters Yuri; Kei
Genre science fiction
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Colors Adam Warren
Notes Cover number: 1 of 5; indicia: DIRTY PAIR II no. 1

1 page The Penumbra text article "COLD FRONT:"

Script Catherine Yronwode
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover B&W indicia page editorial about the weather outside the Eclipse offices.

25 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] story "THINGS Past"

Characters Briareos (cameo spoof); Deunan Knute (cameo spoof); Hikaru Ichijyo (cameo spoof); Linna Yamazaki (cameo spoof); Nene Romanova (cameo spoof); Shasti; Miranda Cocker (cameo spoof); Colin; Yuri; Kei; Deirdre
Synopsis The "Lovely Angels" try to take a vacation, but end up chasing a former WWWA agent who has become a wanted criminal. Flashback sequence: The "Lovely Angels" train with Shasti and Deirdre.
Genre science fiction
Script Haruka Takachiho (creator of characters and situations); Toren Smith; Adam Warren
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Joe ? (art assists); Adam Warren
Colors Tomoko Saito (zipatone)
Letters L. Lois Buhalis
Notes "Tomoko 'N' Joe" credit for art assists. Letter column states Tomoko Saito did zipatone, but does not explain "Joe" credit. Cameo spoofs: Appurushîdo [Appleseed]; Macross [Robotech]; Baburugamu kuraishisu [Bubblegum Crisis]; Vinasu Senki [Venus Wars]
Reprinted in Dirty Pair Book Two: Dangerous Acquaintances Collection (Eclipse, 1991 series) #[nn] [hardcover]; in Dirty Pair Book Two: Dangerous Acquaintances Collection (Eclipse, 1991 series) #[nn] [softcover]; in Dirty Pair: Dangerous Acquaintances, The (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #[nn]

7 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes B&W house ads: Stormwatcher; Weasel Patrol; Real Love; Teen-Aged Dope Slaves and Reform School Girls; Dirty Pair; Cyber 7; Appleseed; James Bond: Permission to Die; inside back cover B&W house ad & colour back cover house ad for: Black Terror, The

2 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] letters page "IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!"

Characters Yuri; Kei
Genre science fiction
Script Fred Burke; letters from: Jack Nelson; Dani Brandt; Mark Lucas; Marc Audette; Aaron Larsen
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Letters L. Lois Buhalis (logo design); Tom Orzechowski (logo design); typeset (text)
Notes Letter column; contains information about art assistant credits.