Comic books August 1980

Mark Jeweler Advertisement Insert Variant. Cover price $0.40.

1st printing. Art by Patricia Wynne. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 16 pages, full color. All Ages

2nd and later printings. Art by Patricia Wynne. Hardcover, 6 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 16 pages, full color. All Ages

Weekly B&W magazine published in the UK. NOTE: Title becomes Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Monthly (1980 UK) at issue #140.

Weekly B&W magazine published in the UK. NOTE: Title becomes Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Monthly (1980 UK) at issue #140.

Weekly B&W magazine published in the UK. NOTE: Title becomes Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Monthly (1980 UK) at issue #140.

Issue #30 - Aug. 1980 (two issues published each month). Cover by Ian Kennedy. "The Positronic Cannon" story by C. Shelborne with art by Ferrer. Earth's Positronic Cannon can destroy planets - and now space pirates have it. Science fiction action-adventure story complete in this issue. Back cover is a B&W photograph of the history of space exploration. 5 1/2-in. x 7-in., 64 pages, black and white.

Starburst is Marvel's British magazine about "science fantasy in tv, cinema and graphics." Issue #24 includes: Mark Hamill on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; interview with Caroline Munro, the first lady of fantasy; The Final Countdown - review of the new Kirk Douglas time travel movie; feature on Gerry Anderson's Stingray; Alfred Hitchcock retrospective. Caroline Munro/Mark Hamill/Kirk Douglas cover. Original cover price: 60p. NOTE: #4-87 published by Marvel Comics.

Interview with Harrison Ford on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; Battle Beyond the Stars; Star Trek: The Motion Picture's Persis Khambatta; the writing of Doctor Who; Ray Harryhausen's pre-production art; the making of Buck Rogers; SFX: the wizard of time & speed. Empire Strikes Back cover. Cover price $2.25.

Volume 81 - 1st printing. "Tito and His Partisan Army: Yugoslavia, 1941-45!" By Richard Rustin. Strategy & Tactics magazine is the longest running military history magazine. Includes in-depth looks at historical battles and campaigns and features articles with maps and pictures showing key moments, action, personalities, equipment and more! Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 40 pages, B&W. NOTE: Includes complete game. Cover price $5.00.

Does NOT include Game - Volume 81 - 1st printing. "Tito and His Partisan Army: Yugoslavia, 1941-45!" By Richard Rustin. Strategy & Tactics magazine is the longest running military history magazine. Includes in-depth looks at historical battles and campaigns and features articles with maps and pictures showing key moments, action, personalities, equipment and more! Softcover (Saddle-Stitched/Stapled), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 44 pages, B&W. NOTE: Does NOT include Game. Cover price $5.00.

Last 40c cover-priced issue. "Circus of the Super-Stars." The Super Friends perform at a circus and hire circus performers to impersonate them. Starring Aquaman, Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Zan, Jayna, Commissioner Gordon, and Alfred Pennyworth. Script by E. Nelson Bridwell, pencils by Romeo Tanghal, inks by Bob Smith. Cover by Fradon and Smith. Cover price $0.40.

Mark Jeweler Advertisement Insert Variant. Cover price $0.40.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. "Circus of the Super-Stars." The Super Friends perform at a circus and hire circus performers to impersonate them. Starring Aquaman, Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Zan, Jayna, Commissioner Gordon, and Alfred Pennyworth. Script by E. Nelson Bridwell, pencils by Romeo Tanghal, inks by Bob Smith. Cover by Fradon and Smith.

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Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano. Clark Kent's Vanishing Classmates, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; at a Metropolis University reunion, Clark Kent faces a creature comprised of nine former classmates. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.40.

Mark Jeweler Advertisement Insert Variant. Cover price $0.40.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano. Clark Kent's Vanishing Classmates, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; at a Metropolis University reunion, Clark Kent faces a creature comprised of nine former classmates. 36pgs.

Whitman edition. Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano. Clark Kent's Vanishing Classmates, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; at a Metropolis University reunion, Clark Kent faces a creature comprised of nine former classmates. 36pgs. Cover price $0.40.

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Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano. The Dynamic Duel! starring Supergirl, script by Jack C. Harris, pencils by Win Mortimer, inks by Vince Colletta; Supergirl must release Dynamic from a hypnotic trance. The Man Who Discovered Kryptonite! starring Mr & Mrs Superman, script by E. Nelson Bridwell, pencils by Kurt Schaffenberger, inks by Joe Giella. Catman on the Prowl Hostess Cup Cake ad with Batman. Innocent -- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt--Private Life of Clark Kent, script by Bob Rozakis, pencils by John Calnan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte. Swan Dance for a Girl Reporter starring Lois Lane, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Bob Oksner, inks by Vince Colletta. The Reporter Nobody Knows! starring Jimmy Olsen, script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Joe Giella. Cover price $1.00.

Long-running men's interest magazine featuring articles, fiction stories, adult cartoons, and nude photography. 8.5" x 11", 74 pages, B&W/Color. -MATURE READERS- Cover price $3.25.

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Originally presented in Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) #9 - "The Spell of the Serpent!" Written by Roy Thomas. Art by Marie Severin and Dan Adkins. The sinister Serpent Crown has turned the citizens of Atlantis against their monarch. Even Lady Dorma falls under the thrall of the evil artifact. Can Namor's indomitable will stand against the mind-numbing power of the Serpent Crown? "The Spell of the Serpent!" Tiger Shark cameo. 36 pages, FC. Cover price $0.40.

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Mark Jewelers Advertisement Insert Variant. Originally presented in Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) #9 - "The Spell of the Serpent!" Written by Roy Thomas. Art by Marie Severin and Dan Adkins. The sinister Serpent Crown has turned the citizens of Atlantis against their monarch. Even Lady Dorma falls under the thrall of the evil artifact. Can Namor's indomitable will stand against the mind numbing power of the Serpent Crown? "The Spell of the Serpent!" Tiger Shark cameo. 32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.50.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. Originally presented in Sub-Mariner (1968 1st Series) #9 - "The Spell of the Serpent!" Written by Roy Thomas. Art by Marie Severin and Dan Adkins. The sinister Serpent Crown has turned the citizens of Atlantis against their monarch. Even Lady Dorma falls under the thrall of the evil artifact. Can Namor's indomitable will stand against the mind numbing power of the Serpent Crown? "The Spell of the Serpent!" Tiger Shark cameo. 32 pages, FC.

Reprints: The Forgotten Men, River of the Damned, and the Trap. 8-in. x 11-in., 52 pages, black and white.

Stories and art by Basil Wolverton, Domingo Mandrafina, Alberto Macagno, Antonio Reynoso, Oscar Fraga, and Enrique Cristobal. Legendary publisher Myron Fass presents gory tales of horror and the macabre. A murdered ganglord finds Hell to be full of opportunity for a guy like him. A ship docks at a port ravaged by the dreaded Gray Plague. A mad scientist creates a substance that makes nightmares come true, in a story originally scripted by comics legend Basil Wolverton. Featuring altered reprints from Strange Fantasy and other 1950s pre-Code comics. Vampire; A Tomb of Ice; The Evil Trip; Claws of Horror; Satans Demon; The Mummys Evil Eye; Spirit of the Witch; Hidden Horror. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Mature readers. Cover price $1.95.

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First 50-cent cover price. Cover pencils by Stan Goldberg. Meet Woodrow "Bingo" Wilkin III, popular student at Midville High School, who goes steady with girlfriend Samantha Smythe and is also lead vocalist and guitarist in his pop rock group The Bingoes. This humorous teenage series was similar to the Archie series that the same company published. Getting Noticed! Hostess snack cakes ad with Josie. Give Till It Hurts, script by Dick Malmgren, pencils by Stan Goldberg, inks by Jon D'Agostino; No one particularly likes Mrs. Smythe's artistic creations made from seashells, but no one will tell her, either. The Write Way! one-page Li'l Jinx story by Joe Edwards. A Mynah Problem, script by Frank Doyle, art by Stan Goldberg; Mr. Smythe buys a mynah bird and teaches it to insult Mr. Wilkin, so Bingo comes up with a way to turn the tables. A Game of Chance, script by Frank Doyle, art by Stan Goldberg; Bingo and Uncle Herman put in a shuffleboard court and Mr. Smythe is determined to spoil it somehow. Sacrifice Play, script by Frank Doyle, art by Stan Goldberg; Uncle Herman decides that he's just in the way and leaves the Wilkin house, so Bingo has to come up with a way to make him change his mind. Dear Bingo & Samantha advice column. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.50.

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Direct Edition. Last 40-cent cover price. The Eternals Saga: Part 17 of 20 - Cover by Keith Pollard. Brief appearance by the Valkyrie in "Dragon's Blood!", script by Roy Thomas (plot) and Ralph Macchio (script), pencils by Keith Pollard (breakdowns) and Chic Stone (finished art), inks by Chic Stone; Siegfried kills Fafnir the Dragon and rescues Brunnhilda from the ring of fire where she was placed by Odin. Bullpen Bulletins. "The Incredible Hulk vs. The Roller Disco Devils!" Hostess snack cakes ad with the Hulk. 36 pgs., full color. $0.40. Cover price $0.40.

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Newsstand Edition. Last 40-cent cover price. The Eternals Saga: Part 17 of 20 - Cover by Keith Pollard. Brief appearance by the Valkyrie in "Dragon's Blood!", script by Roy Thomas (plot) and Ralph Macchio (script), pencils by Keith Pollard (breakdowns) and Chic Stone (finished art), inks by Chic Stone; Siegfried kills Fafnir the Dragon and rescues Brunnhilda from the ring of fire where she was placed by Odin. Bullpen Bulletins. "The Incredible Hulk vs. The Roller Disco Devils!" Hostess snack cakes ad with the Hulk. 36 pgs., full color. $0.40. Cover price $0.40.

Mark Jewelers Advertisement Insert Variant. Last 40-cent cover price. Brief appearance by the Valkyrie in "Dragon's Blood!" Script by Ralph Macchio, pencils by Keith Pollard, inks by Chic Stone. Pollard cover. Cover price $0.50.

UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. Cover by Keith Pollard. Brief appearance by the Valkyrie in "Dragon's Blood!", script by Roy Thomas (plot) and Ralph Macchio (script), pencils by Keith Pollard (breakdowns) and Chic Stone (finished art), inks by Chic Stone; Siegfried kills Fafnir the Dragon and rescues Brunnhilda from the ring of fire where she was placed by Odin. Bullpen Bulletins. "The Incredible Hulk vs. The Roller Disco Devils!" Hostess snack cakes ad with the Hulk. 36 pgs., full color.

August 11, 1980. A weekly news magazine. Cover story focuses on tv show "Dallas". 8" x 11", 78 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $1.25.

August 25, 1980. A weekly news magazine. Cover story focuses on the Democratic Party's problems following Jimmy Carter's winning nomination. 8" x 11", 76 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $1.25.

Whitman edition. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.40.

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Bill Sienkiewicz art Cover price $1.25.

August 18, 1980. Cover: "Designing Women" cast (Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Delta Burke, Annie Potts; art by John Solie). Inside: Sam Donaldson; the lowdown on TV's leading men by the women of "Designing Women." Cover price $0.79.