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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published July-August 1971
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 68
Editing Sol Brodsky; Gary Friedrich (script); Bill Everett (special effects)
Notes Publisher: Israel Waldman and Sol Brodsky. Contributors were listed on the masthead. The individual stories themselves are uncredited.

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Harry Rosenbaum (painting)
Inks Harry Rosenbaum (painting)
Colors Harry Rosenbaum (painting)

2 page text article "How...Why...Hell Rider?"

Genre horror
Script Gary Friedrich
Letters typeset
Notes Bios of Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Sequence added by Richard Arndt, 2005-09-21 (Per Sandell ed.)

20 page Hell-Rider story "Introducing the Hell-Rider"

Characters Hell-Rider (intro, origin)
Genre superhero
Script Gary Friedrich
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito

14 page Butterfly story "The Butterfly"

Characters Butterfly (intro, origin)
Genre superhero
Script Gary Friedrich
Pencils John Celardo? Rich Buckler?
Inks Mike Esposito? Rich Buckler? John Celardo?
Notes 1. Celardo/Esposito (p/i) credits by Mougin/Christos Gage; 2. Buckler/Esposito (p/i) credits by Arndt/Al Hewetson.

14 page Wild Bunch story "Introducing the Wild Bunch"

Characters Wild Bunch (intro, origin)
Genre superhero
Script Gary Friedrich
Pencils Dick Ayers? Syd Shores?
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes Pencils in dispute: 1. Dick Ayers (Mougin); 2. Syd Shores (Arndt).

10 page Hell-Rider story "The Final Chapter"

Characters Hell-Rider; Butterfly; Wild Bunch
Genre superhero
Script Gary Friedrich
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito

2 page Curly's Cycle Corner text article "Curly's Cycle Corner"

Script Gary Friedrich
Letters typeset
Notes Q & A and motorcycle advice column. Sequence added by Richard Arndt, 2005-09-21 (Per Sandell ed.)