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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August 1994
Cover Price 3.95 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bob Schreck

Cover Details

Characters Dorine Saunders
Synopsis Dorine "Spicy" Saunders stands over dead bandit with smoking ray-rifle.
Genre adventure
Pencils Jim Silke (painting)
Inks Jim Silke (painting)
Colors Jim Silke
Letters typeset

1 page illustration "It Stands Alone!"

Genre adventure
Script Jim Silke?
Pencils Jim Silke?
Inks Jim Silke?
Letters typeset
Notes Fake ad for the "Essex P-38 Blaster" stun gun pistol. Sequence added by RS, 2005-09-01 (Per Sandell ed.)

1 page credits "Title page"

Characters Jane Maxwell; Sgt James Lowell Stringfellow
Genre adventure
Pencils Jim Silke
Inks Jim Silke
Colors Jim Silke

30 page Spicy Saunders; Rascals in Paradise story "Episode 1. The Woman Racket"

Characters Jane Maxwell; High Priestess Neffer; Sgt James Lowell Stringfellow; Sgt. McChesney; Dorine "Spicy" Saunders; Sam Breckenridge
Synopsis Jane is kidnapped by Neffer and Spicy arrives on Trash-9.
Genre Adventure
Script Jim Silke
Pencils Jim Silke
Inks Jim Silke
Colors Jim Silke
Letters L. Lois Buhalis
Notes Cary Grazzini is credited for book design, and Dave Stevens for his advice and encouragement. Characters are based on Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Victor McLagen, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Sam Peckinpah, credited for their 'inspiration'.

1 page Spicy Saunders; Rascals in Paradise promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Attractions"

Genre adventure
Script Jim Silke
Pencils Jim Silke
Inks Jim Silke
Colors Jim Silke
Letters L. Lois Buhalis
Notes Promo for #2. Sequence added by RS, 2005-07-25 (Per Sandell ed.)

1 page Jim Silke biography (nonfictional) "My Trouble is Dames" Or "The Slow Birth of RASCALS IN PARADISE"

Genre adventure
Script Jim Silke
Pencils Jim Silke (photo); ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Autobiography of Jim Silke. Illustrated with black & white versions of album covers and another model photo from the time that Jim Silke worked as assistant and later executive art director for Capitol Records. Two of the photos are credited to Jim Silke, but the other two album covers do not have photo credits. (The text on this page states that Jim Silke was the assistant art director on these photo shoots, and did not take the model photos until he became executive art director.) Inside back cover. Notes info by RS, 2005-07-25 and 2005-09-01 (Per Sandell ed.)

1 page illustration "Chrysler Rifles"

Characters Dorine "Spicy" Saunders
Genre adventure
Pencils Jim Silke
Inks Jim Silke
Colors Jim Silke
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover. Fake recruiting poster for the regiment Dorine Saunders joins in the story. Notes info by RS, 2005-09-10 (Per Sandell ed.)