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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published Winter 1983
Cover Price $2.50
Pages 54
Editing Michael Gustovich
Notes Last issue of the Noble Comics series. This is a flip book with Cobalt Blue.

Cover Details - "The Justice Machine"

Characters The Justice Machine [Blazer; Titan; Demon; Talisman; Challenger]; Dr. Victor Von Croft; an alien
Genre Superhero
Pencils Keith Pollard
Inks Michael Gustovich
Colors Kevin Siembieda
Notes Last issue of the Noble Comics series. This is a flip book with Cobalt Blue.

20 page The Justice Machine story "Yesterday's Pain"

Characters The Justice Machine [Blazer; Titan; Demon; Diviner; Talisman; Challenger]; Kathyrn [Kitten] Kane (cameo); Walter [Weed] Wylie (cameo); Carolyn Marie Smith; Dr. Victor Von Croft; Hammett Dash; Clint (Blazer's movie date); an altered human (an alien/amphibian cross)
Synopsis The administrators of New Haven give Dr. Von Croft 48 hours to heal Diviner before putting her in stasis. Meanwhile, the Machiners fight an altered human who has been killing and hunting humans. The creature was the result of experiments done by Dr. Von Croft in Dauchau in World War II.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Loebs [credited in last issue's editorial]
Pencils Bill Reinhold
Inks Michael Gustovich
Letters Michael Gustovich
Notes This story leads into the Justice Machine Annual published by Texas Comics. That book guest-starred the THUNDER Agents as well as "Kitten" Kane and "Weed" Wylie of the THUNDER Squad.

2 page Thunder Agents; the Elementals promo (ad from the publisher) "Justice Machine Annual"

Characters THUNDER Agents [Dynamo; Noman; Raven; Lightning] fightng Nazis; the Elementals [Vortex; Monolith; Fathom; Morningstar]
Synopsis A black and white preview of the annual's cover.
Genre superhero
Pencils Michael Golden
Inks Michael Gustovich
Reprinted from Justice Machine Annual (Texas Comics, 1983 series) #1 [preview]

1 page Elementals promo (ad from the publisher) "Elementals"

Characters The Elementals [Morningstar; Monolith; Fathom and Vortex]
Synopsis Preview of a new book called the Elementals.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bill Willingham
Inks D?

20 page Cobalt Blue story "Invasion of the Mechaniods"

Characters Cobalt Blue; Overkill; unnamed policemen; a team of scientists [Dan; Hatch; Bobbi] (Dan and Hatch die in this story); unnamed aliens
Synopsis As Cobalt Blue and Overkill fight, Overkill detonates a nuclear device inside of him. Cobalt Blue protects himself from the blast with a blue crystal shield. Scientists looking into the destruction afterward find his cocoon and are attacked by aliens guiding robotic armored forms. The robots kill 2 of the scientists and are stalking the third when they are routed by Cobalt Blue after freeing himself from his cocoon. Cobalt then attacks the alien's ship, but this proves overwhelming, and both Bobbie and Cobalt Blue are captured.
Genre science fiction
Script Michael Gustovich
Pencils Bill Reinhold
Inks Michael Gustovich (pgs 5-7, 9, 12, 18-19); Bob Layton (pgs. 4, 13); Jeff Dee (pgs. 1-3, 8, 10, 11, 14-17, 20)
Colors Kevin Siembieda
Letters the Artist Machine
Notes Research by Steve A. Krutsinger

1 page Cobalt Blue (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Cobalt Blue"

Characters Cobalt Blue; Bobbi
Genre science fiction
Pencils Michael Gustovich
Inks Bob Layton
Notes This is a flip book with Justice Machine #5.