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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published September 16th 1978
Frequency Every Monday
Cover Price 0.12 GBP
Pages 32
Editing Kelvin Gosnell; Steve MacManus (sub-editor)

Cover Details

Characters Mek-Quake
Pencils Graham Cotton (painting)
Inks Graham Cotton (painting)
Colors Graham Cotton (painting)
Letters Typeset

6 page Mind Wars story "Give 'Em A Taste Of The Neuronic Truncheons"

Characters Yosay Tilman; Bruda; Kreda; Ardeni Lakam; Kareela La Bourzac; Doctor Varn; Cosmol Na-Rutha
Synopsis The crew land on a planet where a vengeful former acquaintance of Tilman's holds great influence.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script Alan Hebden
Pencils Jesus Redondo
Inks Jesus Redondo
Letters Peter Knight; John Aldritch
Notes The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue.

7 page Ro-Busters story "Massacre On The Moon Part 5"

Characters Ro-Jaws; Hammerstein; Mek-Quake; Alvin; Emma; K. G. O'Gosnell; Howard Quartz
Synopsis Believing his robots to have gone rogue, Quartz sends Mek-Quake to deal with them.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script Jack Adrian
Pencils Carlos Pino
Inks Carlos Pino
Colors Carlos Pino
Letters Peter Knight
Notes Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour.
Reprinted In The Complete Ro-Busters (Rebellion, 2008 series) #[nn] (November 2008)

5 page Strontium Dog story "Bring My Baby Back, Johnny... Do You Hear?"

Characters Ruth Webster; Nigel Webster; Marci Webster; Johnny Alpha; Wulf Sternhammer; Sadan; Gronk
Synopsis Sadan has taken Johnny Alpha's neice.
Genre Science-Fiction
Script John Wagner [as T. B. Grover]
Pencils Ian Gibson
Inks Ian Gibson
Colors Ian Gibson
Letters David Gould
Notes The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour.
Reprinted In Strontium Dog: Search/Destroy Agency Files (Rebellion, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

1 page activity "So You Wanna Be A Pilot, Huh?"

Synopsis Quiz.
Letters Typeset

2 page letters page "Starlord's Stargrams"

Script Various
Pencils Various
Inks Various
Letters Typeset

8 page Holocaust story "400 Tons Of Plane Falling Out Of The Sky"

Characters Carl Hunter; Colonel Minsky; Alien (J. Edgar); President; Lupinski; Lin Wa
Synopsis The aliens attempt to abduct Hunter and Misnky
Genre Drama
Script Alan Hebden
Pencils Madigllianes
Inks Madigllianes
Colors Madigllianes
Letters Peter Knight
Notes The title is taken from the ‘Next Week’ panel of the previous issue. Only the first two pages of the strip are in colour.

1 page Ro-Busters illustration "Hammerstein And Ro-Jaws"

Characters Ro-Jaws; Hammerstein
Script Kevin O'Neill
Pencils Kevin O'Neill
Inks Kevin O'Neill
Colors Kevin O'Neill
Letters Kevin O'Neill