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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1991
Cover Price 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD
Pages 44
Editing Bob Layton; Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Notes Sale date: June 18, 1991.

Cover Details

Characters Solar
Genre superhero
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Notes Sale date: June 18, 1991.
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Alpha and Omega (Valiant, 1994 series) #0 (April 1994); in Solar l'Uomo dell'Atomo (Play Press, 1994 series) #0 (July 1994) [Italy]

26 page Solar story "No Place Like Home; (Second Death part 1)"

Characters Doctor Dobson; Doctor Erica Pierce; Dr. John Veerhusen; Gayle Nordheim; poor people [Matt; Millie; Odibe [O.D.]]; Solar [Doctor Phil Seleski]
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Don Perlin [as D. David Perlin]
Inks Bob Layton
Colors Kathryn Bolinger
Letters Jade Moede [as Jade]
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Second Death (Valiant, 1994 series) #[nn] (March 1994)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "The Sun Also Ariseth"

Letters typeset
Notes Introduction to the following eight page insert on heavier stock.

6 page Solar story "Alpha and Omega (part 1)"

Characters Doctor Dobson; Doctor Erica Pierce; Doctor Phil Seleski; Gayle Nordheim
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter; Bob Layton (assist)
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Bob Layton
Colors Janet Jackson
Letters Jade Moede [as Jade]
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Alpha and Omega (Valiant, 1994 series) #0 (April 1994); in Solar l'Uomo dell'Atomo (Play Press, 1994 series) #0 (July 1994) [Italy]

2 page Solar story "untitled"

Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Colors Janet Jackson
Notes First part of the last panel to the Alpha and Omega story.
Reprinted in Solar, Man of the Atom: Alpha and Omega (Valiant, 1994 series) #0 (April 1994); in Solar l'Uomo dell'Atomo (Play Press, 1994 series) #0 (July 1994) [Italy]