Issue | #5 |
Published | Winter 1983 |
Cover Price | $2.50 |
Pages | 54 |
Editing | Michael Gustovich |
Notes | Last issue of the Noble Comics series. This is a flip book with Cobalt Blue. |
Characters | The Justice Machine [Blazer; Titan; Demon; Talisman; Challenger]; Dr. Victor Von Croft; an alien |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Keith Pollard |
Inks | Michael Gustovich |
Colors | Kevin Siembieda |
Notes | Last issue of the Noble Comics series. This is a flip book with Cobalt Blue. |
Characters | The Justice Machine [Blazer; Titan; Demon; Diviner; Talisman; Challenger]; Kathyrn [Kitten] Kane (cameo); Walter [Weed] Wylie (cameo); Carolyn Marie Smith; Dr. Victor Von Croft; Hammett Dash; Clint (Blazer's movie date); an altered human (an alien/amphibian cross) |
Synopsis | The administrators of New Haven give Dr. Von Croft 48 hours to heal Diviner before putting her in stasis. Meanwhile, the Machiners fight an altered human who has been killing and hunting humans. The creature was the result of experiments done by Dr. Von Croft in Dauchau in World War II. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Loebs [credited in last issue's editorial] |
Pencils | Bill Reinhold |
Inks | Michael Gustovich |
Letters | Michael Gustovich |
Notes | This story leads into the Justice Machine Annual published by Texas Comics. That book guest-starred the THUNDER Agents as well as "Kitten" Kane and "Weed" Wylie of the THUNDER Squad. |
Characters | THUNDER Agents [Dynamo; Noman; Raven; Lightning] fightng Nazis; the Elementals [Vortex; Monolith; Fathom; Morningstar] |
Synopsis | A black and white preview of the annual's cover. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Michael Golden |
Inks | Michael Gustovich |
Reprinted | from Justice Machine Annual (Texas Comics, 1983 series) #1 [preview] |
Characters | The Elementals [Morningstar; Monolith; Fathom and Vortex] |
Synopsis | Preview of a new book called the Elementals. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Bill Willingham |
Inks | D? |
Characters | Cobalt Blue; Overkill; unnamed policemen; a team of scientists [Dan; Hatch; Bobbi] (Dan and Hatch die in this story); unnamed aliens |
Synopsis | As Cobalt Blue and Overkill fight, Overkill detonates a nuclear device inside of him. Cobalt Blue protects himself from the blast with a blue crystal shield. Scientists looking into the destruction afterward find his cocoon and are attacked by aliens guiding robotic armored forms. The robots kill 2 of the scientists and are stalking the third when they are routed by Cobalt Blue after freeing himself from his cocoon. Cobalt then attacks the alien's ship, but this proves overwhelming, and both Bobbie and Cobalt Blue are captured. |
Genre | science fiction |
Script | Michael Gustovich |
Pencils | Bill Reinhold |
Inks | Michael Gustovich (pgs 5-7, 9, 12, 18-19); Bob Layton (pgs. 4, 13); Jeff Dee (pgs. 1-3, 8, 10, 11, 14-17, 20) |
Colors | Kevin Siembieda |
Letters | the Artist Machine |
Notes | Research by Steve A. Krutsinger |
Characters | Cobalt Blue; Bobbi |
Genre | science fiction |
Pencils | Michael Gustovich |
Inks | Bob Layton |
Notes | This is a flip book with Justice Machine #5. |