Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	July 1998
Frequency	quarterly
Cover Price	2.95 USD; 3.45 CAD
Pages	36
Editing	Ken Krueger (story editor); Phil Haxo ("cover design/color")

Cover Details

Pencils	? (painting)
Inks	? (painting)
Colors	? (painting)

6 page Spencer Steel story "Dawn.. the city dozes in peaceful quiet..

Characters	Spencer Steel
Genre	detective
Script	? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (original editor)
Reprinted	from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 Series) #12 (April 1941).

4 page Spencer Steel story "Looks like my best detective on my squad is cracking up..."

Characters	Spencer Steel; Spencer Steel Jr.
Genre	detective
Script	? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Pencils	Edwin Laughlin ? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Inks	Edwin Laughlin ? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (original editor)
Notes	Dennis Colebrook is a penname of Ed Laughlin, but it appears that the name eventually turns into a 'housename' and becomes disassociated with Laughlin.
Reprinted	from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 Series) #7 (July 1940).

6 page text story "Wine, Women and - Sign!"

Genre	romance
Script	E. J. Crescent
Letters	typeset
Notes	Text story with illustrations.
Reprinted	from ?

4 page Spencer Steel story "Fresh air and sunshine!"

Characters	Ratty Morone; Spencer Steel
Genre	detective
Script	? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (original editor)
Reprinted	from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 Series) #8 (August 1940).

6 page Spencer Steel story "Death chatters down the dark streets..."

Characters	Butcher; Gerty; MacGuire; Spencer Steel
Genre	detective
Script	? [as Dennis Colebrook]
Editing	Malcolm Reiss (original editor)
Reprinted	from Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series) #13 (June 1941).

6 page Tugboat Tessie story "Old Bill Jetty heads downstream..."

Characters	Bill Jetty; Melody; Tugboat Tessie
Genre	adventure; humor
Script	Lee Stoken
Reprinted	from Seven Seas Comics (Leader Enterprises / Universal Phoenix Features, 1946 series) #?

1 page Micronauts story "Micronauts: Episode II"

Synopsis	Text: "During this process of creation and destruction the universe underwent a rate of expansion many times the speed of light."
Genre	science fiction
Letters	typeset
Notes	Inside back cover. Micronauts TM and copyright 1998 COLLADO.