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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published September 1983
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing William P. Marks
Notes Published bi-monthly by Vortex Magazine, Canada.

Cover Details - "Vortex"

Genre fantasy
Pencils Joan Thornborrow
Inks Joan Thornborrow
Colors Joan Thornborrow

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents"

Synopsis Table of contents for this issue Vol. 1, #5, Sept. 1983.
Letters typeset
Notes Illustration of a cowboy and a young cowboy sitting on a nuclear bomb in the desert. Artist's signature imperceptible.

11 page story "T-Wrecks"

Synopsis A child on vacation at the beach turns his imaginative fantasy of dinosaurs into mechanical reality.
Genre Fantasy
Script Ken Steacy
Pencils Joan Steacy
Inks Joan Steacy

14 page Calamitas the Wizard story "Cheap Thrills"

Genre Occult
Script Ty Templeton
Pencils Ty Templeton
Inks Ty Templeton

6 page Nebulous the Mystic story "Exile On Earth"

Characters Beguile Supreme Sorceress of the Universe; Nebulous the Mystic
Synopsis Nebulous faces off and defeats Beguile only to find he must find a way back to his own dimension to end the evil control of Vortog.
Genre Occult
Script James Waley
Pencils Paul McCusker
Inks Paul McCusker
Letters Paul McCusker

2 page advertisement "Ads"

Notes Silver Snail Comics (promotional adv., Silver Snail Comics); Masterworks Series of Great Comic Book Artists (comic books, Sea Gate Distributors)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "We're Gonna Go Way Out!"

Notes Subscription adv. for Vortex Magazine.