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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published 1983
Cover Price 1.25
Pages 44
Editing Rocky Hartberg

Cover Details - "Cole Black"

Characters Ruby Star; Harold Dull
Genre Crime
Pencils Rocky Hartberg
Inks Rocky Hartberg
Letters Rocky Hartberg

1 page credits "Cole Black 5"

Genre Crime
Letters Typeset

1 page text article "Editorial"

Characters Rocky Hartberg
Synopsis Editorial with a self-portrait.
Script Rocky Hartberg
Pencils Rocky Hartberg
Inks Rocky Hartberg
Letters Typeset

35 page Cole Black story "Moonbeams and Mash Whiskey"

Characters Cole Black; Ruby Star; Harold Dull; Maxwell Murphy; Sheriff Larry Lawrence; Alvin Wormer; Anthony Manzanio
Synopsis Cole Black, on his way home to New York, blunders into a little war between local law enforcment, bootleggers and the mob. He meets and rescues Ruby Star in this issue.
Genre Crime
Script Rocky Hartberg
Pencils Rocky Hartberg
Inks Rocky Hartberg
Letters Rocky Hartberg

4 page letters page "Cole Black Comments"

Genre Crime
Letters Typeset

1 page Cole Black promo (ad from the publisher) "Black by Popular Demand"

Characters Cole Black
Genre Crime
Script Rocky Hartberg
Pencils Rocky Hartberg
Inks Rocky Hartberg
Letters Rocky Hartberg
Notes House ad for issues 1-4.

1 page Cole Black (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Characters Tony Manzanio
Genre Crime
Pencils Rocky Hartberg
Inks Rocky Hartberg