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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published December 1989
Cover Price $2.00 USD
Pages 36
Editing Fred Burke
Notes (Wrong) cover number: 4 of 4; indicia: DIRTY PAIR II no. 4. Cover art depicts a scene from the flashback sequence in this issue.

Cover Details - "Time to Die?!"

Characters Yuri; Kei; Shasti
Genre science fiction
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Colors Adam Warren
Notes (Wrong) cover number: 4 of 4; indicia: DIRTY PAIR II no. 4. Cover art depicts a scene from the flashback sequence in this issue.

1 page The Penumbra text article "THE CHOICE IS YOURS:"

Script Catherine Yronwode
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover B&W indicia page editorial about collecting "neat stuff".

25 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] story "ONE OF MY TURNS"

Characters Yuri; Kei; Shasti; Warner; Deunan Knute (cameo spoof); Briareos (cameo spoof); Roger Fowler; Lacombe
Synopsis The "Lovely Angels" try to find out what Shasti is planning to do. Flashback sequence: Shasti tries to kill the "Lovely Angels".
Genre science fiction
Script Haruka Takachiho (creator of characters and situations); Toren Smith; Adam Warren
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Colors Tomoko Saito (zipatone)
Letters L. Lois Buhalis
Notes Zipatone credit from letter column of #1. GCD page count includes title page, but not recap page between title page & rest of the story. (Page numbering in comic includes the recap page.) Cameo spoof: Appurushîdo [Appleseed]
Reprinted in Dirty Pair Book Two: Dangerous Acquaintances Collection (Eclipse, 1991 series) #[nn] [hardcover]; in Dirty Pair Book Two: Dangerous Acquaintances Collection (Eclipse, 1991 series) #[nn] [softcover]; in Dirty Pair: Dangerous Acquaintances, The (Dark Horse, 1997 series) #[nn]

1 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] recap WHO ARE THE "DIRTY PAIR"... ?

Characters Kei; Yuri; Shasti
Genre science fiction
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Colors Tomoko Saito (zipatone)
Letters typeset
Notes Introduction to the "Lovely Angels" and recap of the first three issues of this series. Illustrated with panels from pages 8 & 14 of issue #3 [1]. Recap page is between the title page and the rest of the story.

4 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes B&W house ads: Brought To Light; Cyber 7; inside back cover B&W house ad: Black Terror, The; colour back cover house ad: Dirty Pair Book One: Biohazards

3 page Dâti pea [Dirty Pair] letters page "IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!"

Characters Yuri; Kei
Genre science fiction
Script Fred Burke; letters from: Rajesh Krishnan; Jim Gill; Edward Baker; "Patch" Morgan; Mark Lucas; Wayne Francis Powers; Bill Lane
Pencils Adam Warren
Inks Adam Warren
Letters L. Lois Buhalis (logo design); Tom Orzechowski (logo design); typeset (text)
Notes Letter column; printed in two sections before and after the sequence 6 ad.

1 page advertisement

Notes B&W ad: General Products catalogue (anime & manga merchandise)