Wildcards  WILD   (Epic, 1990) ™ and ©1990 WildCard Consortium

On the far-off world of Takhisis, the inhabitants have been battling each other for centuries using psionic powers. Seeking an edge, they developed a virus that could be used to mutate themselves into more powerful beings. But they needed a place to test it—they chose our world for this test.

In 1946, a bomb containing the virus was exploded over New York City. This virus—nicknamed the “Wildcard Virus,” due to its unpredictable effects—killed ninety percent of the people it came into contact with. Of those remaining, nine out of ten became “jokers”—hideously mutated beings. Only one in a hundred “drew an ace” and wound up with a useful mutation. These aces became the new super-heroes, although they are despised by those less fortunate.

This series is drawn from the best-selling set of Bantam science-fiction books by the same name.

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date: 9/1/1990 Cover Price: $4.50 NM Guide: $3.25 9 copies available from $1.52	Based on prose anthology series	Lewis Shiner, Melinda Snodgrass, Howard Waldrop, Walton Simons	Barry Kitson, Harry Candelario, Keith Williams, Butch Guice, Marshall Rogers, Fred Fredericks
	#2 Date: 10/1/1990 Cover Price: $4.50 NM Guide: $4.00 3 copies available from $3.25	Based on prose anthology series	Lewis Shiner, Walton Simons, John Miller, Walter Jon Williams	Lee Weeks, Tom Yeates, Barry Kitson, Michael Bair
	#3 Date: 11/1/1990 Cover Price: $4.50 NM Guide: $4.25 3 copies available from $4.24	Based on prose anthology series	Lewis Shiner, Gail Gerstner-Miller, George R.R. Martin	Timothy Truman, Larry Stroman, Keith Williams, Barry Kitson, Doug Potter, Mark A. Nelson, Al Williamson
	#4 Date: 12/1/1990 Cover Price: $4.50 NM Guide: $3.50 6 copies available from $2.50	Based on prose anthology series	Lewis Shiner, Stephen Leigh, Howard Waldrop	Barry Kitson, John Tartaglione, Mickey Ritter, Gray Morrow, Marshall Rogers, Fred Fredericks
	Book #1 Date: 1/1/1991 Cover Price: $14.95 NM Guide: $10.50 No copies available	Collects Mini Series #1-4	Lewis Shiner, Melinda Snodgrass, Howard Waldrop, Walton Simons, John Miller, Walter Jon Williams, Gail Gerstner-Miller, George R.R. Martin, Stephen Leigh	Barry Kitson, Harry Candelario, Keith Williams, Butch Guice, Marshall Rogers, Fred Fredericks, Lee Weeks, Tom Yeates, Michael Blair, Timothy Truman, Larry Stroman, Doug Potter, Mark A. Nelson, Al Williamson, John Tartaglione, Mickey Ritter, Gray Morrow