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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1985
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Louise Jones; Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Longshot; Mojo; Spiral; Gog; Magog
Genre superhero
Pencils Arthur Adams (signed)
Inks Arthur Adams (signed)

24 page Longshot story "A Man Without A Past"

Characters Longshot (1st); GUESTS: Eliot; Quark (1st); Magog (1st); VILLAINS: Spiral (1st); Gog (1st)
Synopsis Running for his life, Longhsot leaps through a portal and arrives on earth with no memory of who he is or where he came from; As he tries to adjust to this strange new world, he is befriended by the dog looking creature, Magog, and the human survivalist nut, Eliot; Longshot and Eliot learn of a woman whose baby has been kidnapped and they decide to rescue her tot; They discover the band of creatures who chased Longshot from his world just as they are preparing to sacrifice the baby to open a portal home; Longshot uses his powers of incredible luck to rescue the baby and escape from Spiral and her cohorts.
Genre superhero
Script Ann Nocenti
Pencils Arthur Adams
Inks Brent Anderson; Whilce Portacio
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Longshot and Ricochet Rita are based on the physical "look" of Art Adams and Ann Nocenti.