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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published June 1988
Cover Price 1.25 USD
Pages 16
Editing Lou Stathis; William P. Marks (Publisher)

Cover Details - "Black Kiss"

Genre Adult; Crime
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chakyin
Reprinted in Thick Black Kiss (Vortex, 1993 series) #nn

10 page Black Kiss story "Black Kiss Book One"

Synopsis The series is set in Los Angeles in the 1980s and opens with Dagmar Laine, a transsexual prostitute and lover to former 1950s film star Beverly Grove, searching for a reel of film taken from The Vatican's collection of pornography. The reel has been sent to Father Frank Murtaugh by his brother who is a Cardinal in The Vatican. Laine tries to grab the reel from Father Murtaugh but it's stolen by a nun.
Genre Adult; Crime
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin; Dean Motter (Publication design)
Inks Howard Chaykin
Letters Ken Bruzenak
Notes Comic contains explicit sex and language.
Reprinted in Thick Black Kiss (Vortex, 1993 series) #nn