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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1977
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 68
Editing ?

Cover Details - "Power Comics"

Genre War; Occult; Fantasy
Notes Illegible signature on back cover. Upon closer inspection with a loupe, it reads: SKIP JM BILL BAIRE ED. Wraparound cover rendition of interior story entitled The Belt of Americe. There is a second printing dated March 1977 with different individual images on both the front cover and back cover.

1 page illustration "Nightwitch"

Genre Fantasy
Pencils Skip Williams
Inks Skip Williams
Notes Interior front cover illustration with indicia at bottom.

1 page Nightwitch foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Power Comics"

Genre Fantasy
Pencils Skip Williams
Inks Skip Williams
Letters typeset
Notes Table of Contents page. This first issue is dedicated to Mr. Ray Walsh of East Lansing, Michigan.

9 page story "A Gift of Wonder"

Synopsis The Gods had realized that men could not live without magic.
Genre Fantasy
Script T. Casey Brennan
Pencils V.J. Marchesano
Inks V.J. Marchesano
Notes Full frontal nudity.

13 page story "The Belt of Americe"

Genre Fantasy
Script Jerry Younkins
Pencils J.J. Friel
Inks Sue Hughes

1 page advertisement "The National Comic Book Retailer Directory"

Synopsis Advertisement for the National Comic Book Retailer Directory for March 1977
Letters typeset
Notes Illustration of an American Indian-type character with a backdrop of a log cabin and forests underneath a full moon. Signature is illegible.

1 page Captain America; Spider-Man; Hulk advertisement "Comic Kingdom"

Synopsis Advertisement for the book store Comic Kingdom located in Detroit, Michigan.
Genre Super-Hero
Letters typeset
Notes Illegible signature for art. Copyright MCG 1977.

1 page Batman; Vampirella; beatnik advertisement "Libby's Comic Shoppe"

Synopsis Advertisement for Libby's Comic Shoppe located in Saginaw, Michigan. Copyright 1977 for Warren Publishing, DC Comics and Robert Crumb, respectively.
Genre Super-Hero; Humor
Pencils Robert Crumb; Neal Adams; Gonzalo Mayo
Letters typeset
Notes Advertiser utilized snippets of three images randomly taken from their respective titles.

1 page illustration

Genre Adventure

1 page Tarzan the Ape Man advertisement "Curious Book Shop"

Synopsis Advertisement for the Curious Book Shop located in East Lansing, Michigan.
Genre Jungle
Letters typeset
Notes Illustration of Tarzan wielding a knife towards an angry, advancing ape. Copyright 1977 Edgar Rice Burroughs.

1 page letters page "Power Comics Letters Page"

Synopsis Letters page plus convention information.
Letters typeset

1 page advertisement "The Eye of Agamotto"

Synopsis Advertisement for The Eye of Agamotto comic book store in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Pencils LaRon Williams
Inks LaRon Williams
Letters typeset

1 page illustration

Synopsis Full page illustration of three men in a frying pan/boat. Two men have umbrellas as sails while the third steers with his umbrella.
Genre Fantasy
Pencils LaRon Williams
Inks LaRon Williams

2 page advertisement "Heroic Fantasy"

Synopsis Centerfold advertisement for Christopher Enterprises of Dearborn, Michigan. Six full size posters are offered with coupon indicating all the particulars.
Genre Fantasy
Pencils Berni Wrightson; Steve Hickman; Michael Kaluta
Letters typeset
Notes Centerfold ad contains a fully illustrated border with a fantasy theme by Michael Kaluta 1976.

1 page advertisement "The Abyss"

Synopsis Advertisement for The Abyss comic book store.
Letters typeset
Notes Horrible rendition of Howard the Duck, copyright Marvel Comics Group.

1 page advertisement "Classic Movie and Comic Center"

Synopsis Advertisement for the Classic Movie and Comic Center located in Farmington, Michigan. Cheap renditions of Captain America; Hulk; Vampirella; Howard the Duck; Groucho Marx
Letters typeset
Notes Copyright for each character noted.

1 page advertisement "The Detroit Triple Fan Fair"

Synopsis Advertisement for a convention on Memorial Day Weekend. Chaired by Greg Theakston with guest of honor Ray Harryhausen.
Letters typeset
Notes Illustration of a collage of sci-fi movie monsters including Gwangi and Cyclops. Other illustrations include three separate ovals with the following: one labeled Fantasy showing Conan reading a pulp of Startling Adventures; one labeled Film showing Humphrey Bogart, Laurel and Hardy and Robbie the Robot; one labeled Comic Art showing Superman, Mickey Mouse and Captain America.

1 page advertisement "Comic World T & L Plasterland"

Notes Ad for comics shop in Hazel Park, MI.

1 page advertisement

Letters Typeset
Notes Advertisement for a subscription to Power Comics.

21 page Nightwitch story "Nightwitch Rising"

Characters Hemsut; Onyx Moro; Azimuth the Cruel; Dr. St. John
Synopsis Origin of Nightwitch.
Genre Fantasy
Script Grant Stevens ?
Pencils Skip Williams ?
Inks Bill Messner-Loebs
Letters Bruce Bennett ?
Notes First appearance of Nightwitch. Explicit nudity.

5 page story "A Boy and His Aardvarck"

Characters Dandy the Aardvark
Synopsis A Boy becomes a Man by killing his aardvark and his tyrant father.
Genre Family
Script T. Casey Brennan
Pencils Dave Sim
Inks Dave Sim
Notes With sincere apologies to Harlan Ellison.

1 page Nightwitch illustration "Nightwitch"

Genre Fantasy
Pencils Skip Williams
Inks Skip Williams
Notes Interior back cover with various seductive poses of Nightwitch.