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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published 1990
Cover Price 4.95 USD
Pages 52
Editing Letitia Glozer; Charles Ardai (consulting editor, Davis Publications, Inc.); Cynthia Manson (consulting editor, Davis Publications, Inc.)
Notes Cover art is based on the sequence 4 story. No publication date in comic; indexed date from copyright notice. Davis Publications, Inc. is the publisher of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

Cover Details - "THE BEST OF ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE"

Characters Serpent; Eve; Offa Smith
Genre religious; satire
Pencils John Bolton
Inks John Bolton
Colors John Bolton
Letters Steve Vance (cover design and logotype)
Notes Cover art is based on the sequence 4 story. No publication date in comic; indexed date from copyright notice. Davis Publications, Inc. is the publisher of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

1 page credits "T able O f C ontents"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover B&W indicia/credits page. No series title in indicia.

1 page text article "ORBiT"

Letters Steve Vance (logotype)
Notes Title page. Indexed series title is from this page.

1 page illustration "untitled"

Pencils Stan Woch ? (see Notes)
Inks Stan Woch ?
Colors Stan Woch ?
Notes Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.

11 page story "The Lost Garden of ENID BLYTON, BEATRIX POTTER, LUCY ATWELL and the REST of the LADS of the 32nd PARACHUTE REGIMENT"

Characters Offa Smith; Adam; Eve; Serpent; Yahweh
Synopsis Time traveller tries to prevent Adam and Eve from eating apples.
Genre religious; satire
Script Garry Kilworth (original story); Fred Burke (adaptation)
Pencils John Bolton
Inks John Bolton
Colors John Bolton
Letters Wayne Truman
Notes Adaptation of a 1985 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Mature content: frequent nudity.

1 page illustration "untitled"

Pencils Stan Woch ? (see Notes)
Inks Stan Woch ?
Colors Stan Woch ?
Notes Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.

15 page story "THE LAST QUESTION"

Characters Multivac; Alexander Adell; Bertram Lupov; Jerrodette I; Jerrodette II; Jerrodine; Jerrodd; Microvac; MQ-17J; VJ-23X; Galactic AC; Zee Prime; Dee Sub Wun; Universal AC; Man; Cosmic AC; AC
Synopsis Computers try to discover whether entropy can be reversed.
Genre science fiction
Script Isaac Asimov (original story); Don Thompson (adaptation)
Pencils John Estes
Inks John Estes
Colors John Estes
Letters Wayne Truman
Notes Adaptation of a 1956 prose short story first published in Science Fiction Quarterly.

1 page illustration "untitled"

Pencils Stan Woch ? (see Notes)
Inks Stan Woch ?
Colors Stan Woch ?
Notes Abstract art page. No credits or signature on page; indexed art credits from Stan Woch's "book design" credit on inside front cover credits page.

16 page story "THE END OF LIFE AS WE KNOW IT"

Characters Lisa; Richard; Dowdy; Secretariat; Murcielago
Synopsis American tourists meet a Guatemalan brujo.
Genre occult
Script Lucius Shepard (original story); Thomas Yeates (adaptation)
Pencils Thomas Yeates
Inks Thomas Yeates
Colors Sam Parsons
Letters Mindy Eisman
Notes Adaptation of a 1984 prose short story first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

1 page advertisement

Notes Colour subscription ad for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

2 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes Colour house ad for Tapping the Vein; inside back cover B&W Eclipse Books back issue list for "graphic albums".

1 page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "untitled"

Genre science fiction
Pencils John Estes
Inks John Estes
Colors John Estes
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover of comic. Illustrated with art from page 24 of this issue.