Volume 4, Number 11

Vol. 4, No. 11
November 1993
whole number 47
1993 pages 000-xxx (6 pages)

cover: character studies by Alex Toth

Under the Gun: LOC from Russ Martin, Bob Haney, Jerry DeFuccio, Will Murray, Francis Saint-Martin and Alex Hiderwski (continues on back page)

Bravo for Toth Pt. 4: 1949-50 bibliography

-- Indexed by: Nick Caputo

Volume 3, Number 11

Vol. 3, No. 11
November 1992
whole number 36
1992 pages [083-110] (28 pages) 

"Lazlo's Hammer" by Steve Ditko

[revised as "Laszlo's Hammer" for reprints in Avenging World [2002] and Laszlo's Hammer [2013]]

Under the Gun: letters from Bob Hughes, Mark Verheiden and Will Murray (back page)

Volume 1, Number 1

Vol. 1, No. 1
January 1990
whole number 1
1990 pages 001-006 (6 pages)

Robin Snyder opens up the issue with "In the Matter of Honoring the Pioneers of Comics", on his intentions for his new publication:

"Going to the source for the background and origins of the titles, strips, characters, companies and trends which have shaped today's comic books." -- R. Snyder

The next feature asks "Who created Rock?", about the origin of the DC character Sgt. Rock, with some recent comments in print from Will Murray and Mike Gold (who weren't there) quoted, followed by statements from Joe Kubert and Robert Kanigher (who were).

Joe Gill writes an editorial about the working life at Charlton comics in the early days:

"For me, that meant $2 a page. I had to write 150 pages a week to pay the rent." -- J. Gill

For the first bibliography there's a look at Robert Kanigher's 1955 output for DC, ahead of the more comprehensive bibliography of Kanigher that has been a regular staple of the newsletter.

Steve Ditko looks at the nature of the terms "create, creator, creation" in his essay "At Some Point":

"What is missing or needed in comics are standards to measure any effort to see if it is a valid, true creation and at what level." -- S. Ditko

(essay later reprinted in Avenging World [2002], The Comics v26 #1 [2015])