1994 Magazine  199M   (Warren, 1980-1983) ™ and ©1980 Warren Publishing Company

(From the Slings & Arrows Comic Guide)

This magazine-format title bills itself as “illustrated adult fantasy,” which here translates as “porn with a science-fiction theme” or “Hey! If I set this in the future or another planet, I can cram in any amount of rape, torture, bestiality, cannibalism and compliant robot women, and claim it’s daring and progressive fantasy.” This really is a foul series, reeking with hatred and resentment for women and sex—and apparently convinced that these attitudes are normal and universal. Let’s take “Little Beaver” in #26 as an example. A group of men take a pubescent girl, place a bomb inside her vagina, and send her to the enemy in the expectation that she will be raped by the commanding officer, thus triggering the bomb. And the style of the artwork (and previous “Little Beaver” stories) leave you in no doubt that this is intended to titillate, which is deeply frightening. Presumably there are men who can read this comic without feeling ashamed to be male, but one wouldn’t care to meet them. Admittedly, not all of the comic is that extreme, and many stories aren’t porn at all, though they’re all weak and poorly told. In the whole series, there’s only one story genuinely worth reading, “The Missionary” by Carlos Gimenez in #15, which makes a good point about the fixation on pain and suffering in certain aspects of Christianity. Are there other reasons for opening any of these issues? Well, if you must, there’s artwork by Alex Niño (every issue), Richard Corben (#1–8) and Frank Thorne (#7–29). And let’s not forget Peter Hsu, whose “Ariel Hart” stories (#22, 26) are easily the most explicit in the series, and whose frankness deserves some kind of recognition—it’s not every artist who would want the world to know that he’s a graduate of the Barbie Doll School of Anatomy, and has only the vaguest idea of how the female pelvic area is put together. The title is updated to 1994 with #11, but avoid. ~FC

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#11 Date: 2/1/1980 Cover Price: $1.75 NM Guide: $9.00 No copies available	Series continued from 1984 #10; B&W	Victor De La Fuente, Rich Margopoulos, Will Richardson, John Ellis Sech, Frank Thorne	E.R. Cruz, Victor De La Fuente, Rudy Nebres, Alex Niño, Jose Ortiz, Michael Saenz, Frank Thorne
	#12 Date: 4/1/1980 Cover Price: $1.75 NM Guide: $7.50 No copies available	B&W	Kevin Duane, Will Richardson, Frank Thorne, Bob Toomey	Delando Niño, José Gonzalez, Abel Laxamana, Rudy Nebres, Alex Niño, Frank Thorne
	#13 Date: 6/1/1980 Cover Price: $1.75 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Budd Lewis, Rich Margopoulos, Will Richardson, John Ellis Sech, Frank Thorne	Abel Laxamana, Rudy Nebres, Alex Niño, Delando Niño, Jose Ortiz, Frank Thorne
	#14 Date: 8/1/1980 Cover Price: $1.75 NM Guide: $11.50 1 copy available for $8.00	B&W	NIcola Cuti, Kevin Duane, Alabaster Redzone, Jim Stenstrum, Frank Thorne	Vic Catan, Abel Laxamana, Alex Niño, Jose Ortiz, Frank Thorne
	#15 Date: 10/1/1980 Cover Price: $1.75 NM Guide: $13.50 2 copies available from $4.99	B&W	Kevin Duane, Carlos Giménez, Budd Lewis, Bill DuBay	Carlos Giménez, Abel Laxamana, Rudy Nebres, Alex Niño, Delando Niño
	#16 Date: 12/1/1980 Cover Price: $1.95 NM Guide: $13.50 1 copy available for $5.00	B&W	Carlos Giménez, John Ellis Sech, Kevin Duane, Nicola Cuti, Will Richardson	Abel Laxamana, Alex Niño, Carlos Giménez, Delando Niño, Luis Bermejo, Rudy Nebres
	#17 Date: 2/1/1981 Cover Price: $1.95 NM Guide: $10.50 2 copies available from $8.00	B&W	Kevin Duane, Bill DuBay, John Ellis Sech, Jim Stenstrum, Frank Thorne	Abel Laxamana, Alex Niño, Jose Ortiz, Frank Thorne
	#18 Date: 4/1/1981 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $5.75 1 copy available for $4.99	B&W	Frank Thorne, Gerry Boudreau, John Ellis Sech, Will Richardson	Alex Niño, Delando Niño, Frank Thorne, Rudy Nebres, Vic Catan
	#19 Date: 6/1/1981 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Kevin Duane, Bill DuBay, John Ellis Sech, Frank Thorne	Vic Catan, Abel Laxamana, Alex Niño, Delando Niño, Frank Thorne
	#20 Date: 8/1/1981 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $1.50 No copies available	B&W
	#21 Date: 10/1/1981 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Alabaster Redzone, Frank Thorne, Gerry Boudreau, Will Richardson	Alex Niño, Delando Niño, Esteban Maroto, Frank Thorne, The Redondo Studio, Rudy Nebres
	#22 Date: 12/1/1981 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Rich Margopoulos, Bill DuBay, Timothy Moriarty	Alex Niño, Delando Niño, Peter Hsu, Rudy Nebres, Rueben Yandoc
	#23 Date: 2/1/1982 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $15.00 No copies available	B&W	Gerry Boudreau, Kevin Duane, Bill DuBay, Budd Lewis	Alex Niño
	#24 Date: 4/1/1982 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $9.00 1 copy available for $9.75	B&W	Bill DuBay, Bruce Jones, John Ellis Sech, Frank Thorne	Vic Catan, Esteban Maroto, Alex Niño, Frank Thorne
	#25 Date: 6/1/1982 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $8.00 No copies available	B&W	Bill DuBay, Bruce Jones, Timothy Moriarty, Frank Thorne	Esteban Maroto, Rudy Nebres, Alex Niño, Delando Niño, Frank Thorne
	#26 Date: 8/1/1982 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Bill DuBay, Dan Hallassey, Bruce Jones, John Ellis Sech, Frank Thorne	Vic Catan, Peter Hsu, Esteban Maroto, Alex Niño, Frank Thorne
	#27 Date: 10/1/1982 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Bill DuBay, Dan Hallassey, Bruce Jones, Rich Margopoulos, John Ellis Sech	Peter Hsu, Abel Laxamana, Esteban Maroto, Jose Matucenio, Delando Niño, Joe Vaultz
	#28 Date: 12/1/1982 Cover Price: $2.00 NM Guide: $3.00 No copies available	B&W	Bill DuBay, Dan Hallassey, Bruce Jones, Timothy Moriarty, Frank Thorne	Vic Catan, Esteban Maroto, Rudy Nebres, Alex Niño, Frank Thorne
	#29 Date: 2/1/1983 Cover Price: $2.25 NM Guide: $9.50 2 copies available from $7.50	Final Issue; B&W	Bill DuBay, Timothy Moriarty, John Ellis Sech, Frank Thorne	Vic Catan, Peter Hsu, Abel Laxamana, Delando Niño, Frank Thorne