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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published August 1983
Cover Price $2.00
Pages 36
Notes Intended as SENTINELS OF JUSTICE #1 before DC Comics bought the Charlton "Action Heroes", thus preventing any more appearances at AC.

Cover Details - "SENTINELS OF JUSTICE"

Characters Blue Beetle; Captain Atom; Nightshade; Question; The Manipulator (villain)
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Greg Guler
Inks John Beatty
Notes Intended as SENTINELS OF JUSTICE #1 before DC Comics bought the Charlton "Action Heroes", thus preventing any more appearances at AC.

1 page text article "The Sentinels of Justice... A Fantastic Foursome!"

Script Dan St. John
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Colors B&W
Letters typeset
Notes Details the histories of the 4 Sentinels of Justice characters and their history at Charlton Comics. Includes covers of CAPTAIN ATOM #85 (March 1967), BLUE BEETLE #1 (June 1967) and MYSTERIOUS SUSPENSE #1 (October 1968).

25 page Sentinels Of Justice story "SENTINELS OF JUSTICE"

Characters Vic Sage (The Question); Jonathan Barrington Collingsworth Jr. (The Manipulator / main villain); Hartford; Ted Kord (Blue Beetle); Tracy (lab assistant); Captain Fisher; Captain Atom; Nightshade; The Mayor; Dr. Rockwell; Ironarms (thugs); Madmen (thugs); Firey-Icer (villain); The Banshee (villain); unnamed "shrouded figure" (behind-the-scenes villain)
Genre Super-hero
Script Dan St. John (plot); Greg Guler
Pencils Greg Guler; Matt Feazell (backgrounds)
Inks Greg Guler; Matt Feazell (backgrounds)
Colors Bill Fugate
Letters Greg Guler
Notes Characters (C) Charlton Publications, used with permission. Story was meant to be continued, but the purchase of these characters by DC Comics prevented it from being done.

1 page The Blue Beetle promo (ad from the publisher) "The Blue Beetle!"

Characters Blue Beetle (Ted Kord); The Bug (vehicle)
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Rik Levins
Inks Bill Black
Colors Bill Black
Letters Bill Black
Notes Ad / AMERICOMICS #3; picture was used on back cover.

1 page illustration "AC Comics Portfolio"

Characters The Messenger; Nightveil; Captain Paragon; The Shade; Bolt
Pencils Bill Black
Inks Bill Black
Colors Bill Black
Letters typeset

1 page The Durango Kid illustration "The Durango Kid"

Genre Western
Pencils Bill Black
Inks Bill Black

1 page Buckeye illustration "Buckeye"

Genre Super-hero
Pencils Jim Sanders III
Inks Jim Sanders III

1 page Tara illustration "Tara"

Characters Tara
Genre Jungle
Pencils Bob McLeod
Inks Bob McLeod

1 page Astron illustration "Astron"

Characters Astron
Genre Science fiction; Super-hero
Pencils June Brigman
Inks Roy Richardson
Notes May (or may not) be connected with Astron, Star-Soldier by Tom Sciacca (ASTRAL COMICS, Tom Sciacca, Summer 1977).

1 page Commando D illustration "Leaping Across The Dimensional Boundaries..."

Characters Commando D
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Willie Blyberg
Inks Willie Blyberg

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "AC Comics This Summer"

Script Bill Black
Pencils Pat Broderick (Blue Beetle); Paul Gulacy (Nightveil, Star Masters)
Inks Pat Broderick (Blue Beetle); Paul Gulacy (Nightveil, Star Masters)
Colors B&W
Letters typeset
Notes Ad / AMERICOMICS #3, NIGHTVEIL #5, STAR MASTERS #1

1 page Sentinels Of Justice illustration "Sentinels Of Justice"

Characters Captain Paragon; (woman in yellow); Commando D; ? (Commando D's sidekick); Nightveil; (man in red)
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Greg Guler
Inks Greg Guler
Notes Back cover. With the purchase of the Charlton "Action Heroes" by DC, Bill Black quickly assembled a NEW "Sentinels Of Justice" from his own characters.