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Mars #8 (1984) · The Collector

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First Comics
Mars (1984)
#8

First Comics#8

Mars

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Mars #8

Publisher: First Comics
Cover date: August 1984
On sale: Apr 21, 1984
Cover price: $1.00
Pages: 36

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Printing not stated · $1.00
No barcode recorded

Stories

2 titled

1World War Two (Old Timer's Disease)
2Riders to Heart's End!

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Grand Comics Database issue 38982

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1st appearance of Joyce Dimitri
1st appearance of Rod Buckminster

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The colonists are ill from the same sickness that killed the fifth Mars colony. They find tapes that suggest a laser cure, which they try.

Credits

Writers: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel, Peter Gillis
Pencillers: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel, Don Lomax
Inkers: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel, Bruce Patterson
Colorists: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel, Kathryn Mayer, Bruce Patterson
Letterers: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel, Kathryn Mayer, Bruce Patterson
Covers: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel
Cover colors: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel
Cover letters: Mark Wheatley, Marc Hempel

Editorial and production

Editor: Mike Gold

Characters

Joyce Dimitri· 1st appearance
Rod Buckminster· 1st appearance
Black Flame
Judit Hunyadi
Morgana
Teezy

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