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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published July 1983
Frequency bi-monthly in January, March, May, July, September and November
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Robin Snyder

Cover Details

Characters the Fly; Fly Girl
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Steranko (signed)
Inks Jim Steranko (signed)

1 page text article "Under The Gun!"

Characters Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge; Reggie Mantle
Script Robin Snyder
Letters typeset
Notes The 1st part of Robin Snyder's Fly indexes. Includes reprinted covers of Laugh #128 and Pep #151, where the Fly had a back up.

3 page The Fly story "I Killed The Fly"

Characters Fly; Spider Spry; Turan
Synopsis Spider Spry fatally shoots the Fly. Turan changes the Fly back into Thomas Troy and heals the Fly's body during the change.
Genre superhero
Script Rich Buckler
Pencils Jim Sherman (1st page by Rich Buckler)
Inks Jim Sherman (1st page by Rich Buckler)

6 page Fly-Girl story "A Woman's Place"

Characters Fly Girl; Big Max Cardona; Harry Howell
Synopsis Fly Girl protects her producer from a mafia boss.
Genre superhero
Script Rich Buckler; Stan Timmons
Pencils Adrian Gonzales
Inks Ricardo Villagran
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Peter Kircheimer

1 page letters page "Under The Gun!"

Script Robin Snyder
Letters typeset

17 page Fly story "The Mugging"

Characters Fly; Diamond Jack (a masked mugger); Officier McGee; Ol' Abbey (a witch); Lovecraft (Abbey's magic parrot); the Marches (flashback)
Synopsis Thomas Troy is mugged by a masked thief named Diamond Jack. He tracks the thief as the Fly but must stop a witch and her mystical parrot from killing the thief.
Genre superhero
Script Jack C. Harris
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Rich Buckler
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

4 page Hangman story

Genre superhero
Script Robin Snyder
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Sam De LaRosa
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Sam De LaRosa
Notes A vignette featuring various "Hangmen".

1 page The Fly (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Characters Fly
Genre superhero
Pencils Rudy Nebres (signed)
Inks Rudy Nebres (signed)