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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published April 1983
Cover Price $2.00
Pages 36
Editing Bill Black
Notes Anthology series featuring new characters, revivals from Bill Black's 1970's comics, and material left-over from CHARLTON BULLSEYE.

Cover Details - "First Issue! / Starring The SHADE"

Characters The Shade; Rea Williams
Genre Occult; Super-hero
Pencils George Perez
Inks George Perez
Letters George Perez
Notes Anthology series featuring new characters, revivals from Bill Black's 1970's comics, and material left-over from CHARLTON BULLSEYE.

1 page text article "The World's Smallest Comic Company"

Script Bill Black
Letters typeset
Notes Introduction to the Americomics line (later renamed AC).

16 page The Shade story "DREAM WALKER"

Characters Rea Williams; Roger Brant (The Shade); Chen Lo (priest & mystic); Thurston Lahr (drug lord)
Synopsis After soldier Roger Brant loses the use of his legs in Viet Nam, mystic Chen Lo teaches him to unleash the powers of his mind & astral form to become The Shade. Back in America, he enters the dreams of Rea Williams, who plans to murder the man responsible for her brother's drug-related death.
Genre Occult; Super-hero; War
Script Bill Black
Pencils Bill Black
Inks Bill Black
Colors Bill Black
Letters Bill Black
Notes The Shade created by Martin Greim & Bill Black, partly inspired by the Golden Age SANDMAN as done by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby. Retelling of stories from PARAGON SUPER HEROES #1 and PARAGON #3 (Paragon, 1971). Original version reprinted in FANDOM'S FINEST COMICS VOL.2 (Hamster Press, 1998).

1 page The New Sentinels Of Justice promo (ad from the publisher) "Together Again For The First Time!"

Characters Blue Beetle; Captain Atom; Nightshade; The Question
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Greg Guler
Inks Bill Black
Notes Ad / SENTINELS OF JUSTICE featuring the Charlton "Action Heroes".

8 page The Slayer story "THE SLAYER"

Characters Jon Nyte / Jonathan Knight (The Slayer); Captain Scott (police officer); Black Starr
Synopsis Jon Nyte, intergalactic policeman ("Slayer") from the planet Toru, is assigned to Earth and takes the guise of a police officer in NYC.
Genre Super-hero
Script Craig Zablo
Pencils John Beatty
Inks Jerry Ordway
Colors John Beatty
Letters Jerry Ordway
Notes The Slayer created by John Beatty & R.E.M. Clements.

1 page Star Fems promo (ad from the publisher) "Gulacy Galaxy Gal"

Pencils Paul Gulacy
Inks Paul Gulacy
Notes Ad / "Galaxy Gal" STAR FEMS cover / poster. Gulacy did quite a few covers for AC around this time.

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Next Issue"

Characters The Messenger; Frank Taveras; The Shade
Pencils Jerry Ordway; Rik Levins
Inks Jerry Ordway; Willie Blyberg
Notes Ad / AMERICOMICS #2

4 page Captain Freedom and the Liberty Corps story "OCEANUS ONE"

Characters Phineas Crump; Commodore Faraday; Dr. Yuri Gargovich; Captain Freedom; The Hood (villain); The Liberty Corps
Genre Science fiction; Super-hero
Script Bill Black
Pencils Bill Black
Inks Bill Black
Colors Bill Black
Letters Bill Black
Notes 4-page preview; includes upcoming cover of AMERICOMICS #5 (December 1983).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Back Issues"

Characters Bullseye; Stuntman; Captain Paragon
Pencils Jack Kirby (#2-3); Pat Broderick (#4)
Inks Joe Simon (#2-3); Bill Black (#4)
Notes Ad / BILL BLACK'S FUN COMICS #2, 3, 4

1 page Captain Freedom illustration "Captain Freedom"

Characters Captain Freedom; The Hood
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Willie Blyberg
Inks Willie Blyberg
Letters Willie Blyberg