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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published June 2005
Cover Price 4.99 USD
Pages 52
Editing Mark Chiarello; Michael Siglain (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details

Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin

1 page illustration

Pencils Howard Chaykin
Notes Sketch on inside front cover

1 page illustration

Pencils Howard Chaykin
Notes Pencil sketches

8 page story "The Last Time I Saw Paris"

Characters Firestone Cooley; Blanche; Major Selig Altbusser
Synopsis A black American jazz musician is in Paris on the day the Nazi army occupies the city.
Genre War
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin
Colors Michelle Madsen
Letters Pat Brosseau

8 page story "Upgrades!"

Characters Dr. Aubrey Upchurch; Donna Pietroforte
Synopsis Dr. Upchurch has a devil of a time curing his fiancee of her wandering eye.
Genre Horror
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin
Colors Brian Haberlin
Letters Pat Brosseau

8 page Pow-Wow Smith story "Tall in the Saddle"

Characters Pow-Wow Smith [Robert Smith]; Ned Van Zandt; P.C. Deville
Synopsis In the early days of Hollywood, Bob Smith is hired to do a film with a bad guy who escaped from him many years before.
Genre Western
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin
Colors Michelle Madsen
Letters Jared K. Fletcher
Notes Smith's nickname is spelled "Powwow" in this story.

8 page story "Breaking & Entering"

Characters Masha Baklonov; Joel Brody
Synopsis Former agents for the KGB and CIA adjust to life after the cold war.
Genre Crime
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin
Colors Trish Mulvihill
Letters Ken Lopez

8 page story "Bad Blood"

Characters Shawn Armbruster; Kelly Armbruster
Synopsis Kelly has a surprise for her husband.
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin
Colors Dave Stewart
Letters Jared K. Fletcher

5 page story "Horrors!"

Characters Howard Chaykin
Synopsis Chaykin reminisces about breaking into comics and about his colleagues.
Genre Autobiography
Script Howard Chaykin
Pencils Howard Chaykin
Inks Howard Chaykin
Colors Dave McCaig
Letters Ken Lopez

1 page biography (nonfictional) "Howard Chaykin"

Script Howard Chaykin?
Letters Typeset
Notes Biography with photo

1 page illustration

Pencils Howard Chaykin
Notes Sketch on back cover.