Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 10:24:08 CST
From: thad a doria <[dor 1] at [midway.uchicago.edu]>
Subject: PREVIEWS-O-RAMA I, II, IV JAN 1996

I don't have the new Marvel catalog yet, but when I do I'll write/send/post
part III.

This is not a post containing information about upcoming
comics.

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P R E V I E W S - O - R A M A.  I. Aardvark--Dark Horse
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now archived! gopher://cerebus.acusd.edu, directory
ftp/pub/Comics/New Comics/Previews-O-Rama
also reachable at 
http://cerebus.acusd.edu/html/Comics/Comics.html
Thanx to Jerry at Negative Space! 
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Uh, hang on a minute, this just handed to me...

...I'm sorry, this *is* in fact a post containing informa-
tion about upcoming comics. Never mind.

Plugs, pans, and miscellaneous career tracking for comics
shipping January 1996!

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Spoilers for U!
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Everything contained herein is IMO. Duh, 'cuz I wrote it.


CLIP AND SAVE!
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Opening Volleys: 
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Bill Tucci interview. Not too much here; he's been meeting in
Hollywood with "probably the same people who are calling every-
body else in comics." Shi spin-offs are in the works, by some
friends and assistants of Tucci: Atomic Angels (from the Shi/
Cyblade Special) and The Horseman. Dan Mishkin and Amanda Conner
have been hired to do a Tomoe miniseries.

London Night and Gemstone are exclusive to Diamond.

Slightly new layout for Previews, as the bigger exclusive com-
panies, such as Image, Acclaim, Dark Horse, etc., have designed
their own sections...

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HUNH! Break it down now!
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ACCLAIM:
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-Valiant-
X-O Manowar #63-64 (Giffen & Sears/A. Smith). The return of Master
Darque.

Turok #43-44 (Grell & Cuoto). The tale of how The Son of Stone got
his name.

Eternal Warrior: Fist & Steel #1-2 (Prosser & King). Gilad races 
into his past to stop an evil geomancer. I take it the regular 
series ended at #50?

-Magic: The Gathering-
Fallen Angel one shot (Nancy Collins & Kane-Ferguson). Do rengade
Serras count as bad girls? Painted by the popular M:tG artist, with
cover by Clyde Caldwell.

Elder Dragons #2(of 2) (D. Wheatley & Csazsar). Chromium. Not the
cover, the dragon.

-Misc.-
Mutant Chronicles #1 (Parente/horley/J. Conner). Based on the
Doomtrooper/Mutant Chronicles games. Bisleyesque painted art, and
covers are in fact by Bisley.

Armed & Dangerous #2 (of 4) (Bob Hall). Hall's crime story contin-
ues. Frank Miller's attorneys have advised me that Heavy Shadows 
and Negative Space are tm and (c) Frank Miller.

ANTARCTIC:
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Ninja High School #50 (Dunn & various), wherein Freeple's life is
forever changed. Redeemable coupons for NHS Perfect Memory inside.

ARCHIE:
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Hanna-Barberra All-Stars #4 features Top Cat.

ART & SOUL COMICS:
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Tug & Buster #2 (Marc Hempel). Wraparound Naked Lady cover! But
it's a Marc Hempel Naked Lady, so how prurient could it be?

BONGO:
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Simpsons #16. Patty & Selma Bouvier--Flight Attendants! "Service
with a snarl."

BROADWAY:
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Fatale #1 (Shooter/Jackson & Joe James/Weiss). Shooter's Bad Girl
gets her own book.

CALIBER:
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Interface GN (Hudnall & Paul Johnson). The fully painted
sequel to ESPers collected in a TPB. This is all leading up 
to Hudnall's new ongoing ESPers series for Caliber.

Wordsmith #1 (of 12) (Darrigo & Taylor). Reprinting the oft-praised
but seldom read series from Renegade Press.

COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND:
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The Cerebus "Say No To Censorship" t-shirt.

COSMIC COMICS:
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Death Race 2021 #1 (Mills/Skinner & Campos)

CRUSADE:
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Tomoe #0 (of 3) (Mishkin & A. Conner). Story runs parallel with Shi
#6-10.

DARK HORSE:
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Legend of Mother Sarah: City of the Children #1 (of 7) (Otomo &
Nagayasu). Sarah's second series. Say it 10 times fast.

Tarzan vs. Predator #1 (of 4) (W. Simonson & Weeks). Resolicited 
from last summer. Tarzan finds the inner world of Pellucidar in-
fested with Predators. Hijinks ensue.

Space Usagi #1 (of 3) (Stan Sakai). The rabbit finds a new home at
DH.

Adventures of The Mask #1 (Eury & Vokes). The comic based on the 
cartoon based on the movie based on the comic? Cover by Bruce Timm.

Hellboy: The Corpse and The Iron Shoes one shot (Mike Mignola).
A story originally serialized in Advance Comics, plus an all-new
story.

The Foot Soldiers #1 (of 12) (Krueger & Oeming). Kids in a dystopian
future discover relics of long-dead superheroes. "Together, they will
fill the shoes of the greatest heroes ever to walk the Earth!"

TPBs of Barb Wire, Domu: A Child's Dream, and Age of Reptiles.

to be continued....