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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published November 1991
Cover Price 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD
Pages 44
Editing Bob Layton; Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Solar
Genre superhero
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)

26 page Solar story "Reality Check; (Second Death part 3)"

Characters Doctor Erica Pierce; Doctor John Veerhusen; Dwight; his mother Tammy; the Eggbeakers [Puff; Thumper]; Miss Ando; Mister Kuramoto; Solar; Toyo Harada
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Don Perlin [as D. David Perlin]; Barry Windsor-Smith (uncredited, page 6 part of panel 2, panel 3)
Inks Bob Layton; Tom Ryder [as Thomas Ryder] (assist); Barry Windsor-Smith (uncredited, page 26 panel 4)
Colors Kathryn Bolinger; The Knobs
Letters Ken Lopez
Notes Art in page 6 part of panel 2 and panel 3 lifted from the Alpha and Omega story.
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Second Death (Valiant, 1994 series) #[nn] (March 1994)

1 page recap "The Origin of Solar,"

Letters typeset
Notes Introduction and recap to the following eight page insert on heavier stock.

6 page Solar story "Alpha and Omega Part 3"

Characters Doctor Dobson; Doctor Phil Seleski; Jorge
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter; Bob Layton (assist)
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Bob Layton
Colors Janet Jackson
Letters Jade Moede [as Jade]
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Alpha and Omega (Valiant, 1994 series) #0 (April 1994); in Solar l'Uomo dell'Atomo (Play Press, 1994 series) #0 (July 1994) [Italy]

2 page Solar story "untitled"

Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Colors Janet Jackson
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Alpha and Omega (Valiant, 1994 series) #0 (April 1994); in Solar l'Uomo dell'Atomo (Play Press, 1994 series) #0 (July 1994) [Italy]

1 page letters page "Solar Man of the Atom Mail"

Script various; Bob Layton
Letters typeset