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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published 1986
Cover Price 12.95 USD
Pages 140
Editing Dave Schreiner
Notes Printed mostly from Al Williamson's collection of Spanish proofs originally prepared for overseas sales by Eisner-Iger. The material in this volume first published in English in this format in Australia in "Wags" magazine.

Cover Details

Genre period
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Colors Pete Poplaski
Reprinted from Paquin [South American comic book]

3 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Introduction"

Script Al Williamson
Letters Typeset

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Foreword"

Script Will Eisner
Letters Typeset

27 page Hawks of the Seas story "Claw Carlos & the Indian Ruby"

Characters The Hawk (intro); Claw Carlos (intro); Sagua (intro)
Synopsis The Hawk battles a slave trader.
Genre period
Script Will Eisner (translated to Spanish, French and back into English)
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Dan Burr (re-lettering translated pages)
Notes pages 3 and 4, half of 10 and 17 missing. Continued from The Flame, in Wow! What a Magazine!? Much of the material in this story appeared in a modified and reformatted form in Feature Funnies (Quality Comics, 1937 series) #3-9.

27 page Hawks of the Seas story "The Prophetic Locket"

Characters Professor (intro); Cheico (intro); Claw Carlos; Sagua; Merrystone (intro); Governor Lathrop
Synopsis The Hawk defeats Carlos and frees the slaves.
Genre period
Script Will Eisner (translated to Spanish, French and back into English)
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Dan Burr (re-lettering translated pages)
Notes Much of the material in this story appeared in a modified and reformatted form in Feature Funnies (Quality Comics, 1937 series) #10-12 and Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #1-3.

4 page Hawks of the Seas story "Origin of the Hawk"

Characters Lathrop
Synopsis The Hawk's origin.
Genre period
Script Will Eisner (translated to Spanish, French and back into English)
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Dan Burr (re-lettering translated pages)
Notes Much of the material in this story appeared in a modified and reformatted form Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #4.

24 page Hawks of the Seas story "Treasure of Sea Gull Island"

Characters Jeremy Clogg (intro); Dr Snyde (intro)
Synopsis The Hawk searches for a young man's lost inheritance.
Genre period
Script Will Eisner (translated to Spanish, French and back into English)
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Dan Burr (re-lettering translated pages)
Notes page 84 missing. Much of the material in this story appeared in a modified and reformatted form in Jumbo Comics (Fiction House, 1938 series) #5-8.

28 page Hawks of the Seas story "Mantilla Island"

Characters Tonda (intro); Maria Mantilla (intro); Jeremy Clogg; Father Sanchez (intro); Sagua
Synopsis The Hawk tries to stop a pirate revolt.
Genre period
Script Will Eisner (translated to Spanish, French and back into English)
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Dan Burr (re-lettering translated pages)

13 page Hawks of the Seas story "Treasure of Sea Gull Island Part 2"

Characters Jeremy Clogg; Maria Mantilla; Dr Snyde
Synopsis The treasure is found.
Genre period
Script Will Eisner (translated to Spanish, French and back into English)
Pencils Will Eisner
Inks Will Eisner
Letters Dan Burr (re-lettering translated pages)

2 page text article "Afterword"

Script Dave Schreiner
Letters Typeset