Issue Details

Issue	#5
Published	[May?] 1986
Cover Price	$1.75 CAD; $1.50 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Mark Shainblum (editor/publisher); Gabriel Morrissette (art director)
Notes	Date of May is a guess, based on a bi-monthly schedule and the previous issue being possibly from March.

Cover Details - "MacKenzie Queen with the Ice Men"

Characters	MacKenzie Queen; Ice-Man
Genre	Fantasy
Pencils	Steve Bissette [as SR Bissette] (painting)
Inks	Steve Bissette [as SR Bissette] (painting)
Colors	Steve Bissette [as SR Bissette] (painting)
Letters	Typeset
Notes	Date of May is a guess, based on a bi-monthly schedule and the previous issue being possibly from March.

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Murphy's Lawyer"

Synopsis	Notes by Bernie Mireault and Mark Shainblum about what was upcoming from Matrix. Illo of a guy trying to hypnotize the reader into writing letters.
Script	Bernie Mireault; Mark Shainblum
Pencils	Bernie Mireault [unsigned]
Inks	Bernie Mireault [unsigned]
Letters	Typeset; Bernie Mireault [unsigned]

28 page MacKenzie Queen story "MacKenzie Queen: 5"

Characters	Ududu; MacKenzie Queen; Colonel Dick; Ice-Men
Synopsis	MacKenzie Queen uses music to defeat the Ice-men.
Genre	Fantasy
Script	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Pencils	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Inks	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Letters	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]

5 page advertisement

Synopsis

Ads for mini-comics by Jacques Boivin/Phantasy Press, Star Rider and the Peace Machine (Star Rider Productions), Canadian Comics Cavalcade (1/2 page), Canuck Comics (Matrix Books, 1/2 page), Eb'Nn (Now Comics), Honk (Fantagraphics Books).

1 page The Jam promo (ad from the publisher) "The Jam Special"

Characters	The Jam
Synopsis	Ad for The Jam Special. "Coming in December".
Genre	Superhero
Script	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Pencils	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Inks	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Colors	Bernie Mireault [as BEM]
Letters	Typeset
Reprinted	from Jam Special, The (Matrix Graphic Series, 1987 series) #1 [preview]