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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published April 1984
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Ken Steacy
Notes Published monthly by William P. Marks, Vortex Magazine, Canada.

Cover Details - "Vortex"

Pencils Paul Rivoche
Inks Paul Rivoche
Colors Paul Rivoche

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents"

Synopsis Table of Contents for this issue Vol. 1, #8, April 1984.
Pencils Ron Lightburn
Inks Ron Lightburn
Letters typeset

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Editorial"

Synopsis Ken Steacy discusses lack of sales for alternative titles and the potential future of the Vortex titles.
Script Ken Steacy
Letters typeset

5 page story "Queenie Hart vs. the Queen of Clubs"

Genre Adventure
Script Trina Robbins
Pencils Trina Robbins
Inks Trina Robbins
Letters L. Lois Buhalis

11 page Starbikers story "Dog Eat Dog"

Genre Occult
Script Ronn Sutton
Pencils Ronn Sutton
Inks Ronn Sutton

4 page story "Corrective Surgery"

Genre Science Fiction
Script Steve Leialoha
Pencils Steve Leialoha
Inks Steve Leialoha

5 page story "Studio III"

Genre Satire
Script Jeffrey Morgan
Pencils Jeffrey Morgan
Inks Jeffrey Morgan
Letters Jeffrey Morgan
Editing Jeffrey Morgan
Notes Satire on the trials and tribulations of publishing.

1 page story "A Short History of Western Civilization"

Synopsis Visual satire on the true casualties of war.
Genre Satire
Pencils Steve Gilbert
Inks Steve Gilbert
Notes This particular story is not indicated in the Table of Contents.

1 page letters page "Mailstrom"

Synopsis Fan letters from Byron Preiss, Mark Rose, Bart Bush, and Mark Burbey.

6 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Promotional Advertisements"

Notes In-house advertisements: Mister X (comic book, Vortex Comics); Stig's Inferno [two ads] (comic book, Vortex Comics); Explore New Worlds of Science Fiction and the Fantastic (subscription form, Vortex Comics); Back issues (comic book order form, Vortex Comics); Alice.Alice..Alice... (comic book, Vortex Comics)