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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published [October] 1984
Cover Price 5.95 USD; 6.95 CAD
Pages 68
Editing Archie Goodwin; Mary Jo Duffy [as Jo Duffy]; Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Notes Copyright 1984 Bill Mantlo and Jackson Guice. Wraparound cover. ISBN #0-87135-002-5. Sale date: October 1984.

Cover Details

Characters Cap'n Kidd; Domino Blackthorne Drake; Swashbucklers [including Captain Raader; Logik; Servitor; Spyeye]
Genre science fiction
Pencils Jackson Guice
Inks Jackson Guice
Colors Alfred Ramirez
Notes Copyright 1984 Bill Mantlo and Jackson Guice. Wraparound cover. ISBN #0-87135-002-5. Sale date: October 1984.

1 page Swords of the Swashbucklers illustration "Skull with rose"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jackson Guice
Inks Jackson Guice
Colors Alfred Ramirez
Notes Illo of a skull holding a rose in its teeth.

1 page credits "Swords of the Swashbucklers"

Pencils Jackson Guice (illo)
Inks Jackson Guice (illo)
Colors Alfred Ramirez
Letters typeset
Notes Contains logo, credits and same skull illo, but reduced to half the size, that is shown in the pinup.

56 page Swords of the Swashbucklers story "Swords of the Swashbucklers"

Characters Colonizers [including Commander Zel'kor]; Domino Blackthorne Drake; her cat Cap'n Kidd; her father Jim Drake; her mother Pamela Blackthorne; Swashbucklers [including Black Bess; Captain Raader; Logik; Servitor; Spyeye]; Raader's mother Bonnie Blackthorne
Genre science fiction
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Jackson Guice
Inks Jackson Guice
Colors Alfred Ramirez
Letters Ken Bruzenak
Notes Continued in Swords of the Swashbucklers (Marvel, 1985 series) #1 (March 1985). Dedicated to Anne Bonney and Mary Reid.

3 page text article "The Saga of the Swashbucklers"

Characters Captain Raader; Domino Blackthorne Drake; Logik; Spyeye; an unidentiified Swashbuckler [all in illos]
Synopsis Bill Mantlo and Jackson Guice on how their childhood love of storytelling adventure led them to creating this story.
Genre science fiction
Script Bill Mantlo; Jackson Guice
Pencils Jackson Guice (illos)
Inks Jackson Guice (illos)
Colors Alfred Ramirez (illos)
Letters typeset
Notes Annotation by Bill Mantlo and Jackson Guice: "Special thanks go to Donna Lieberman, our legal eagle, Jim Shooter, the creator's best friend, Mike Hobson, a true gentleman, Mrs. Guice's bulldog Butch, and... of course... to Bob Layton (the Lord alone knows why)."