Issue Details

Issue	#8
Published	August 1987
Cover Price	$1.50
Pages	36
Editing	Ed DeGeorge
Notes	Wraparound cover.

Cover Details - "MEGATON No.8"

Characters	Megaton; Ultragirl; police & many reporters
Genre	Super-hero
Pencils	Gary Thomas Washington
Inks	Gary Thomas Washington
Notes	Wraparound cover.

1 page Megaton foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "(The Cure)"

Genre	Super-hero
Pencils	Angel Medina
Inks	Angel Medina

23 page Megaton story "THE CURE"

Characters	Megaton; Ultragirl
Synopsis	Megaton discovers his manager spread a story about his supposedly dying of AIDS when he was sick for 5 years.
Genre	Super-hero
Script	Gary Carlson
Pencils	Gary Thomas Washington
Inks	Gary Thomas Washington
Letters	James Nelson

1 page Youngblood promo (ad from the publisher) "Catch The Wave!"

Genre	Super-hero
Pencils	Rob Liefeld
Inks	Tim Dzon
Notes	Ad / MEGATON SPECIAL #1; never published, but cover by Rob Liefeld & Jerry Ordway did appear in MEGATON HOLIDAY SPECIAL (Entity, 1994).

7 page Megaton & Ultragirl story "FRIENDS & LOVERS"

Genre	Super-hero
Script	Gary Carlson
Pencils	Rob Liefeld
Inks	Tim Dzon
Letters	Grass Green
Notes	Last issue. Megaton & Ultragirl next appear in MEGATON HOLIDAY SPECIAL (Entity, 1994).

1 page text article ("Megaton Comics is off and running now!")

Script	Gary S. Carlson
Letters	typed
Notes	Gary Carlson details that 30,000 copies of MEGATON EXPLOSION shipped to comics-shops; RAMM #1 and WILDMAN #1 were also released. VANGUARD #1, ETHRIAN #1, YOUNGBLOOD #1 and MEGATON Vol.2 #1, however, were cancelled before being published.

1 page Megaton promo (ad from the publisher) "Now In Color!"

Genre	Super-hero
Pencils	Keith Pollard
Inks	Keith Pollard
Notes	Ad / MEGATON Vol.2 #1 by Gary Carlson & Gary Thomas Washington; never published.