Issue Details

Issue	#8
Published	April 1992
Cover Price	2.25 USD; 2.75 CAD
Pages	44
Editing	Bob Layton; Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters	Kama; Solar
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Don Perlin (signed)
Inks	Stan Drake (signed)

22 page Solar story "Common Foe; (First Strike part 4)"

Characters	Doctor Dobson; Doctor Erica Pierce; Doctor John Veerhusen; his wife; the Eggbreakers [Rock] (in video); Gayle Nordheim; the Harbinger kids [Flamingo; Sting; Torque; Zepplin] (in video); Jeremy; Jorge; Kama (a.k.a. the Dragon of Bangkok); Miwa; R.K. Drahushuk (special investigator); Solar; Spider Aliens (in video); Toyo Harada; his employees [including Miss DeBolt]; X-O Manowar [Aric] (in video)
Genre	superhero
Script	Jim Shooter
Pencils	James Brock
Inks	Gonzalo Mayo
Colors	Mike Cavallaro; The Toasters
Letters	Beth Ann Jenks

1 page recap "The Origin of Solar,"

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

6 page Solar story "Alpha and Omega Part 8"

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
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]