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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published June 1987
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Carl Potts (editor), Michael Higgins (consulting editor)

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Mark Texeira (signed)
Inks Mark Texeira (signed)

22 page Kickers, Inc. story "All or Nothing"

Characters Kickers, Inc. [Jack Magniconte; Dallas Corbin; Thomas Smythe; Beauford Wohl; Darlene Magniconte]; Coach Kirby; Christie Chase (Smashers' owner); Bobby Baker; Yuri Pudlinski; Hunter; Williams (all four Smashers players); Dr. Malcolm Brennan; Scott Templar; Sally Rothman; Coach Burns (Austin Wreckers' coach); Munson; Ramsey; O'Leary; Cottone; Robby Maloney; Rubens; Hilly Kristal; Bonds (all seven Austin Wreckers players); "Ugly" Mack Thornton (former Wreckers player)
Synopsis A week before the Super Bowl, a doctor from the football commissioner's office finds high levels of "pseudo steroids" in Jack Magniconte's system. The commissioner's office requests a second round of tests to nail down the irregularities, but Jack refuses. Jack later decides to not play in the Super Bowl and goes into hiding. After the Smashers lose Super Bowl XXI to the Austin Wreckers without him, Jack decides to go through with the doctor's second round of tests.
Genre superhero
Script Terry Kavanagh, Ron Altaville
Pencils Larry Alexander
Inks Tony DeZuniga
Colors John Wellington
Letters Janice Chiang