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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published August 1984
Cover Price 2.50 USD
Pages 100
Editing Stan Lee, Archie Goodwin, Jo Duffy, Laurie Sutton, Margaret Clar
Notes Letterers: Tom Orzechowski, Rick Parker, Joe Rosen, Jim Novak, Richard Howell, Gaspar Saladino / letter page (2), Ad: Subscription to Epic- Charles Vess (1)

Cover Details

Pencils Jeffrey Jones (signed / painted)
Colors Jeffrey Jones
Notes Letterers: Tom Orzechowski, Rick Parker, Joe Rosen, Jim Novak, Richard Howell, Gaspar Saladino / letter page (2), Ad: Subscription to Epic- Charles Vess (1)

2 page Overview text article

Script Archie Goodwin
Letters typeset
Notes Textpiece on contributors to Epic Illustrated

17 page The Sacred & The Profane story "Vessels of the Past (Chapter VI)"

Script Dean Motter
Pencils Ken Steacy
Inks Ken Steacy
Colors Ken Steacy

4 page text article "Space Cruiser Yamato"

Script Jo Duffy
Letters typeset

11 page story "The Potty's Over"

Synopsis A woman who takes frequent bathes is interrupted by her antagonistic husband who threatens to turn her shower off. She claws his eyes and he stumbles out of the shower striking his head on the sink and killing himself. She is grateful he died in the bathroom as it makes the process of dismembering his body so much easier and she enjoys flushing it straight down the toilet. This story is told very much in the style of the EC horror comics, so you can probably guess that after some time, one day enjoying her bath the decomposed remains of the husband animate and return for revenge upon his wife by bringing her into the septic tank to stay with him. Since she had done a through job of dismembering his body, all that is left of him wraps decayed tendrils of flesh around her body in order to constrict it down through the toilet.
Script Bernie Wrightson
Pencils Bernie Wrightson
Inks Bernie Wrightson
Colors Michele Wrightson

1 page Mediaview text article

Script Dennis O'Neil
Letters typeset

7 page story "Landmass"

Script Rick Veitch
Pencils Rick Veitch
Inks Rick Veitch

16 page story "Apocrypha"

Script John Lakey; Laura Lakey
Pencils John Lakey; Laura Lakey
Inks John Lakey; Laura Lakey
Colors John Lakey; Laura Lakey
Letters Janice Chiang

8 page Preview text article "Epic Images"

Script Archie Goodwin
Pencils John Bolton; Alan Weiss; Jim Sherman; Jackson Guice; Ron Harris; Tom Yeates; Val Mayerik; Paul Gulacy; Jon Jay Muth; Michael Kaluta; Mike Vosburg
Letters typeset
Notes Illustrated textpiece with art by John Bolton, Alan Weiss, Jim Sherman, Jackson Guice, Ron Harris, Tom Yeates, Val Mayerik, Paul Gulacy, Jon Jay Muth, Michael Kaluta, Mike Vosburg

8 page story "Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Ogre and the Mayor's Daughter?"

Script Jo Duffy
Pencils John Bolton (signed)
Inks John Bolton
Colors John Bolton

1 page Bookview text article

Script Jo Duffy
Pencils Peter Kuper
Letters typeset
Notes Textpiece with one illustration by Peter Kuper.

15 page Toadswart story

Script Tim Conrad
Pencils Tim Conrad
Inks Tim Conrad
Letters Ken Bruzenak