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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published September 1985
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 36
Editing Victor Gorelick; Richard Goldwater (editor-in-chief)
Notes Last issue of the series.

Cover Details - "This Rock Monster Is After Me!"

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Shield; Comet; Fox; Fly; Fly Girl; Black Hood; Web; Jaguar]
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Mike Esposito (signed)
Notes Last issue of the series.

8 page Mighty Crusaders story "The Man Who Hated the Crusaders (Chapter 1)"

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Black Hood; Shield; Fly Girl; Fox; Fly; Web; Jaguar; Comet]; Jericho Aquataine; Deadly Force; Omega 8; Redstone
Synopsis Shield and Black Hood join froces to stop a drug deal. The tables are turned though when the hoods summon superpowered help: Deadly Force and Redstone!
Genre superhero
Script Rich Margopoulos
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes The Black Hood that appears here is a more worldly character than the previous Black Hood and smokes cigars while on missions.

6 page Mighty Crusaders story "This Bus Station, This Battlefield!! (Chapter 2)"

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Shield; Black Hood; Comet; Jaguar]; Deadly Force; Redstone; Colonel Mike Kold; Jericho Aquataine
Synopsis While the Shield and the Black Hood take on Redstone, Jaguar and Comet fight Deadly Force.
Genre superhero
Script Rich Margopoulos
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida

5 page Mighty Crusaders story "Encore for the She-Fox (Chapter 1)"

Characters Fox [Paul Patton, Jr.]; Black Hood; She-Fox
Synopsis The Fox brings out his father's roadster to use as transportation. But as his hubcaps are being stolen, he and the She-Fox stop the youth only to find out about a car chop shop in the neighborhood.
Genre superhero
Script Rich Margopoulos
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes First mention that the Fox is the son of the original Fox.

1 page letters page "Crusader Comments"

Characters Mighty Crusaders [Fly Girl; Web; Shield; Comet; Jaguar; Black Hood; Fox; Fly]; She-Fox; Brain Emperor; Sting; Buzzard
Script Rich Margopoulos
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Chic Stone
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters typeset

5 page Fox story "Fox Hunt"

Characters Fox [Paul Patton, Jr.]; She-Fox [Delilah Monaco]; Colonel Mike Kold; General Smith; Kip Burland
Synopsis The Fox and the She-Fox stop fighting long enough to take down the chop shop crew and still have time to meet later at Delilah's apartment for a romatic rendezvous, still oblivious to each other's identity. Meanwhile, Kip Burland receives a CIA tip that someone in the Crusaders' is leaking information to the government.
Genre superhero
Script Rich Margopoulos
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Mike Esposito
Colors Barry Grossman
Letters Bill Yoshida
Notes Kip Burland is shown here as a blond-haired, cigar smoking, gruff man which is very different than the previous Kip Burland. The traitor in the Crusaders' midst is never revealed.