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^3&pgg NUMBER NINE OCTOBER 1979
JAMES WARREN Publisher
W.B. DuBAY Editor CHRIS ADAMES Assistant Editor
CartoonFactory BREAK EVEN L HERMA 24 Art Production Between the orbits of Mars and They found the Viking princess Jupiter, there ought to be a frozen within a solid wall of ice. SUZIN STARK planet. Basic astronomy had They never expected her to be Advertising Production that figured out centuries ago. alive. But when her cold, Why then has it never been seemingly-lifeless body bega: MICHAEL SCHNEIDER discovered? Might be that it to stir, it gripped the world ii_ Circulation Director is an itty-bitty gnat of a world! passions never before known! PATRICK WOODROFFE Cover Illustrator
Authors GERRY BOUDREAU KEVIN DUANE BILL DuBAY JIM STENSTRUM
Illustrators HERB ARNOLD JOSE GONZALEZ CLEAR DANGER 34 STARFIRE JESS JODLOMAN They called him, simply, The Becker skulked in the shado ABEL LAXAMANA Navigator, for he charted the vaiting. When at last the boy ALEX NINO forbidden byways of time itself. appeared and began to disrobe, FRANK SPRINGER His mission: to save an op- Becker watched with silent re- pressed society and prevent vulsion as the nude form was 1984 MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED SIX a dictator, a madman, a false revealed. It was true. The boy TIMES A YEAR, IN FEBRUARY, JUNE, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER AND messiah from ever being born! was not at all what he claimed! DECEMBER BY WARREN PUBLISHING COMPANY. EDITORIAL SUBSCRIPTION AND BUSINESS OFFICES AT 145 EAST 32nd STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016. TELEPHONE 1212) BB3-6D50 SUBSCRIPTIONS: SIX ISSUES FOR S9.00 IN THE U.S.A., CANADA AND ELSEWHERE: 512.00. SECOND CLASS MAIL PRIVILEGE PENDING AT NEW YORK, N.Y. AND AT ADDITIONAL MAIL- ING OFFICES. 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It WEEKS FDR DELIVERY OF FIRST ISSUE. cameras with * 1984 MAGAZINE IS THE PROPERTY of expensive attachments, and is the final sound she will SOLELY OF WARREN PUBLISHING COMPANY, WHICH COMPANY IS SOL- ever hear, and a thoughtless, ELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS CON- stick at! irreverent to say goodbye! CEPTION AND CONTENT. than you can shake a way WHERE, OH WHERE A LEXICOGRAPHERS HAS BIG REX GONE? PARADISE IN 1984 just picked up the eighth is- I think 1984 sucks. sue of 1984 and could not be By now you must be used to I more upset. Again, my favor- hearing such lowbrow comments ite series was conspicuously miss- from your readers; moreover, edi- ing from the magazine's pages. tor Bill DuBay must be on quite a Where, oh where has Rex Havoc few more shit lists than just gone? We have not seen him nor Gloria Steinam's. the Asskickers of the Fantastic The letters printed in your most since issue #6. Please don't tell me recent issue rate as some of the his series has been cancelled in most ignorant and reprehensible favor of the far more titillating ad- ever published anywhere. It br- ventures of Frank Thome's Ghita. ings to mind the stir that was As much as I like Ghita and caused by Michael Oliveri's letter Thome's storytelling, it is not an in CREEPY magazine a few years adequate substitute for Bex. back, wherein Archie Goodwin vil- Can't we please have a heaping lified Oliveri for his use of profani- portion of both? Ghita and Rex? ty. Do away with the other stories if Certainly lexicographers could need be. But please don't take write a dictionary of profanity away my series! with the words that are used so ca- JULIUS CROUSE valierly in the Warren magazines Modesto, Calif. now. But I won't go into a song and dance about that, or the Rex is with us again this issue, needless violence or the inex- Julius. Unfortunately, you'll find cusable sexism. No one with half that Frank Thome's Ghita is con- their colloid tissue is going to swill spicuously missing. While, ideally MUTANT WORLD these inane tales of tomorrow as we would like to present as many viable visions of the future. series per issue as possible (we're GONE FOREVER? I must say, however, that al- not dummies . . . we know what Oh no! I just picked up 1984 #8, most every letter criticizing the you're hooked on!) we have found and have read, to my dismay, what magazine, did so honestly and ac- that artistic quality is compromis- you are leading me to believe is the curately. The only faults I could ed considerably by artists forced final installment of Richard Cor- find with some of the jibes, to meet rigid publishing dead- and ben's Mutant World series. this is purely arbitrary, is that lines. We have allowed our artists While it isn't stated anywhere there was a surfeit of insults to set their own pace, instructing that this is indeed the final aimed at editor DuBay. No matter them to insure quality first and chapter, the last page of the story how much a person deserves it, consider deadlines second. is more like an epitaph than you just can't go name-calling and Hence, when deadlines roll anything I've read since last write meaningful criticism at the around, we will not always have a visiting Wildwood Cemetery. same time. No professional editor Rex Havoc or Ghita adventure Please tell me it isn't so. Dimento or author is going to listen to that prepared for the issue. However, will be back. Won't he? kind of harangue from a reader. you can be assured that we will RANDALL JENKINS He'll disregard the whole she- have the best possible art and Randall, Ariz. bang, and then what good are the stories to see print. intelligent things that were said? Rich's Mutant World series was 1984: JUST ANOTHER originally scheduled to run six As for 1984 itself; yes, Richard PRETTY FACE? episodes, Randall. With some Corben still draws pretty pictures, minor arm twisting we were able and Jan Strnad (Leander and the There is a slick- papered, color- to persuade Rich to extend the Fat Queen, Encounter at War, re- crammed purported science fic- saga of Dimento an additional two member those carefree under- tion magazine being published chapters, thus ending the series ground days, Jan?) still has the across town that is a pile of piping in 1984 #8. most readable story in the issue. hot pterodactyl shit compared to Dimento, Mutant World and The rest was . . . unspeakable. 1984. Rich's art have been so popular Jeez, how I wish Warren would That other magazine may ap- with the readers, however, that have published a science fiction pear superficially slick, but what Rich just might be convinced that magazine back when J.R. Cochran good is a pretty face when it a second series would do wonders and Billy Graham were the masks an empty mind? Fortun- for his career. He says otherwise. editors. I'm sure we would have ately, 1984 has the intelligence, But who knows what the future seen Borne sensitive, well-wrought and when you come right down to holds? fantasies instead of the crap it, its face, while not as pretty as In the meantime, we hope you you're purveying nowadays. Ah is will color the hooker's across the way, enjoy the new series well . . . ! Perhaps in some ex- still awfully pleasing to gaze which begins this issue. It is the ceedingly more benevolent the upon. Starfire Saga, tale of a parallel world . . .! RICHARD FRANCIS family's exploits within the vast DENNY DALEY Arbus, Md. frontiers of space. Chicago, 111. ' . GHITA AND SONJA 1984 MEAN SPIRITED? ONE AND THE SAME? You know what disturbs me the most about 1984? It's not the I enjoy 1984 magazine with its writing, the wild stories and "dirty" words for generally poor pornography, the simple reason that there isn't obscenity, nor the though each of these is a problem really anything else like it on the It's the newsstands today. I'm not a per- in its own right. mean- son who can be easily offended by spirited slant of the writing. Don't "sex, sin and rampant any of your writers believe that immorality . ' mankind has any worth whatso- ever, or that some men are capable Up until now, the only thing I of high and noble emotions? Are could find not to my liking about essentially 1984 was the story "I Wonder all human beings possessed by petty evil? Who's Squeezing Her Now" in is- claim that you dare to break sue #5. It was not a bad story; it You realistic, to be was simply in the wrong maga- new ground, to be you've do- zine. daring. But all ended up Now, however, you have em- ing, so far, is pandering to man's barked upon the ultimate farce. vices. dare to How could you even consider pre- Let's have some balance; once. senting a no- talent hack like be positive. Just Frank Thome in the company of THE MAD MAPLE Ontario, Canada such excellent artists as Richard NOT ALL READERS Corben, Rudy Nebres, Alex Nino, JUNKIES! POTHEADS, I just wanted to compliment Bill Alfredo Alcala and Wally Wood? Believe it there are those of DuBay. He's doing great things Conning readers into praising or not, us who are not perverts, potheads, for Jim Warren's magazines. I Thome's artistic talents while he alcoholics drug addicts who do really enjoy his Rook series in was illustrating the Red Sonja or indeed read 1984. EERIE magazine. And his stories series, was the biggest coup Mar- There also seem to be those who in 1984 are always the most pleas- vel Comics ever pulled off. fight for immorality in literature, ing of the issue. Within the pages of the Marvel such as T. Douglas, one of the JOEL ADAMS magazines, I've read such ambig- ignorant of your Shanghai, Neb. uous and ignorant comments that more callous and readers, whose letter was publish- Thome both created the Sonja ed in a recent issue. character and designed her cos- DARWINIAN THEORY Mr. Douglas slanders those of tume; neither of which are cor- FUNNIES! us who oppose his narrow view OF THE rect. Sonja is the creation of that immorality has its place in you think about it, the Robert E. Howard, from his popu- When print. He also indulges in some emergence of machine set type lar Conan series. As for her cos- choice name-calling in the pro- within the stories in 1984 is a tume, Esteban Maroto should per- cess. logical step, not only in the evolu- sonally protest, for it was he who If jackasses such as he think tion of comics, but in the growth actually created Sonja's bikini ar- they have more right to their of your readers, as well. mor, and Thome who blatantly any opinions those of who The first comic books children stole than us it. neither use nor condone profani- usually see are Richie Rich, Obviously all this talk of Thome ty, then they are indeed as ig- Casper the Friendly Ghost, or being Sonja's creator has gone to norant as their letter writing others within the Harvey line his head, for his Ghita looks exact- makes them out to be. They graduate from that into ly like Sonja in slightly different In past, anytime someone Superman, Marvel Comics, and as dresB. the has written to 1984 objecting to they get older, eventually discover I know it won't do any good for its pornography, he is immediate- the Warren titles sitting over me to beg you not to publish more ly shot some foul- there next to the "big people's of Thome's grade-z imitation gar- down by mongoloid with a type- books." that time, they are bage. Further, you'll no doubt re- mouthed By writer king-sized superiori- twelve to fourteen years old, ceive an influx of letters proclaim- and a about complex. with awareness of themselves and ing me the schmuck of the cen- ty I'm astute enough to realize that their bodies stirring within them tury. But believe me, I know there are two sides to every opi- for the first time. They may stay whereof I speak. And a man who is publish a EERIE right stands as a majority of one. nion. Why then can't you with the CREEPY, TIM HEWITT balance of letters in each issue for magazines for a year or so before por- for adult, more Myrtle Beach, S.C. and against profanity, looking more nography and all else that 1984 stimulating reading. That's where Since Frank Thorne*s Ghita series embodies, espouses and holds 1984 comes in. began in issue #7, Tim, we haved sacred? Within its pages, your readers received hundreds of letters prais- It's my opinion that a science can still cling to the comics of ing both Frank's art and fiction story should be based upon their childhood. But they are storywriting abilities. While it the human situation first, sup- introduced to the literature that would be redundant (and boring as plemented by scientific they will no doubt be seeking hell) to publish all of these lavish knowledge. The stories within more of in years to come, and are plaudits, we did feel that your let- 1984 are based upon sexuality slowly shown that type-set words ter should see print, for the simple supplemented by nudity and pro- can be as much fun, if not more in- fact alone that it was uniquely the fanity. I prefer the former. This is teresting than funny book balloon only criticism Ghita and Frank simply my position and all the in- lettering. have thus far received. We really sults from the sewer-mouthed il- It's a nice little evolutionary pro- wish we could please all of the peo- literates of the world will not cess. Warren should be proud that ple all of the time, Tim. We hope change it. he thought of it first. you will at least find some merit in HENRY WEBB JILL HAWKES the other offerings within 1984. Clinton, Iowa Claymore, Idaho
Send all letters to: 1984 MAGAZINE, WARREN PUBLISHING, 145 East 32nd Street, N.Y. N.Y., 10016 Author: Kevin Duane Illustrator: Alex Nino Most of the new discoveries are made by the wandering robot probes, which skip through the belt, oharting the or- bits for the Navigation Bureau, and scanning the bodies for valuable depos- its of radioactives, metal ores, and water ice.
Most of the scientific community agreed that the Fluke, or for the technically ac- curate (ahem) Planetesimal Anomaly 286734-11-274/RP C:p, was of no earth- shaking importance, as were the mining col- onies on Ceres. However, the least they could do was to send a standard two man geological survey.
We did request two drones, though, and they were already at work on simple preventive mainten- ance like tightening screws and recharging a magnet or two. Simple, yes, but necessary to insure that we don't have to walk home. On most of our trips, Kelly had been quiet. He's one of those people who never says much to begin with, unless you were talking shop.
There was something in Kelly's voice I'd never heard before, a per- plexed, whining tone. But after he
& ., .... drifted to the computer terminal he ©Ph did something that had me literally -v , * in shockfHe repeated himself. When he finally stopped, he stood still for a moment, then began to peck away at his pocketbrain like a starved vulture. As soon as I was sure he wasn't go- ing to try any- MS thing else, like opening the airlock, for a breath of fresh vacuum, I made ray way to the 'scope, to catch - .WWy i 'iU j'") ^]'..!!, my first glimpse BrTffiS: of the Fluke he was babbling about.
Whatever sunlight made its way to I couldn't find any- the Fluke, after thing wrong with being dispersed the view, and that's and smothered in probably why I its half hour trip dropped a small from Sol, decided bombshell into the to settle down at conversation . . .! the surface. From only half a million kilometers away, and with a good photo- multiplier on the 'scope, there was nothing to see but a small grey ball. mm
At least now we had something I didn't have the heart or the nerve to pin it on. But if Kelly was to tell him what I saw later that ft- ra relieved, he didn't show it in night . . .! the least. He took a sleeping pill from the dispensary, and Absent mindedly, I took a reading turned in for off one of the telescopes, and set up the infrascope for a peek at Jupiter.
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Well, it " f couldn't be more ' than a few meters. The density isn't enough to account— '
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. KeUy dropped everything, and headed for the ship . . same lines that I was. *2 ' >*>- fast He was thinking along the ^L± And we both knew that we didn't have much timeJgft.
When the blood finally forced its way back into * our brains, Kelly managed to get his helmet off, and gave an interesting, if somewhat unusual tracing of my family history with some of the choicest words I've ever heard,
faced the I turned the ship about, so that the nose Fluke, a somewhat brighter Fluke than when we arrived.
I don't even _gi/ mean that! The planetA ' wouldn't have just I blown out, it would have blown in!
Kelly went pale with realization. Then, sud denly he was darting around the cabin snatching up every scanner I hadn't used for fuel. He set them scattered about the portholes, all pointing toward the Fluke . . . all of them whirring . . . clicking . . . record- ing waiting for the big pop! , sr-iV?™ *•*«**.
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cannot penetrate . . . the core of a mammoth world. Author:Bill DuBay Illustrator:Jose Gonzalez
Some time later, on the parched sands of Mex- ico's Vaya con Dios desert, another argument concerning a woman's dubious duties rages like a torrential hellfire within an anachronistic settlement. not take long for introductions and for the ex- It does You couldn't the bawdy banditos to realize that they concubines and have happened along at a have almost nothing in common. Yet, that seems to mat- e opportune moment, Herman found a minor diversion with which t lately, I ter little, for each has libidinously lethargic These Men Bure have come I or herself pleasantly preoccupied. i to keep him to limpwads were just about \ long way downhill / demonstrate their vivaciously valetudinarian virility! Aye toll you we Now look an' e should not half gohng boinged He ees mod! We weel a thee governor's dohter! go to jaihl! ^^ Federates! ^HB Federales! They ^^H sooround ihcr ^^| >^_^ comp ^^They cocie^HH i^&S&l to take oos all gfS ^L to preeson: ^|j§ ~ ' ^B??J KS u — ^iSj fe? LJ *: ifll ^^" —•"- v'"' lj ^ \ Jr JB ^ SU 4- VV^^N^ JB ^^ ^S^3^*1*. 1
Needless to say, the battle is swiftly lost without firing a shot.
For once you're in luck. I've received a new shipment only this afternoon. Two of the finest, (and, I might add, most expensive) pieces of merchandise old Mother Warden has ever had the pleasure of offering.
Screw the cost! I'll take both of them! You seem awfully, f nervous, lover. Don't be. I'rr to this ae you seem to be. But I'll try to make it as painlei as possible!
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and of c-c-course . . . "S-S-Sally's j Salacious Serpent!'"
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Author:Gerry Boudreau Illustrator:Jesse Jodloman Deeper in the gar- den, a synthetic scarecrow was se- curely rooted. Stimulated by so- lar energy stored during daylight hours, the man- nequin broadcast- ed ultra- sonic vi- brations that ac- celerated the dis- persement of birds and small pack animals. vs^iwn ESS The navigator considered its clothing. While not the finest, it was less conspicu ous than what he was wearing. He knocked. Not immediately, but soon enough, he heard stirrings within; people waking, stretching, listening for a repetition of whatever real or imaginary sound which had disturbed them, j-- - Then Later in the morning, he and Lisa went walking. Mentally, Luke had striven to maintain a pragmatic, hard- lined attitude, but this was fast falter-
His thoughts fled back to the events which had brought him here. He'd returned home after a long voyage, hun- gering for Al- mira's warm, delicious body. Instead found her cold and lifeless.
As they pre- pared the navi- gator for his voyage, he be- gan to have thoughts of his own. Perhaps the Archbishop hadn't decreed Almira's death after all. Maybe these lying cocksuckers had pumped her just :o ensure his co- operation. It didn't really matter, he knew. They had the on- ly means to bring her back! Luke wasn't concerned over the woman's For a moment, Luke considered forget- misinterpretation of his words. His ting the mission and staying with Lisa. beauti- thoughts were fifty years in the future But although she was young, ful, candid, and looked so very . and which was also, ironically . . his past. much like Almira. she couldn't take the place of an experienced and very deeply loved wife!
Luke had already made up his mind. At first, when the security of- Somehow, someway, he would ar- ficer found Luke's clothing, range a miscarriage for the girl. The he felt silly. Archbishop would be lost, but Lisa and Almira would both survive. It was just a question of the right time,
the proper method . . .!
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There was, however, one seri- Here, in the world he'd made, What about the time machine and the ous and unforeseen alteration. they'd never met at all! Instead f computer? How is it they still existed I What it came down to is this: Luke had married a longtime when in this world they'd never even 1 years ago, the Archbishop had friend who he had never really lov- been created? Could they be used I purchased several thousand ke- ed, during his autumn years when again? Questions swam through tros of land—in the name of the he couldn't afford to be all that [ Luke's head like darting schools of fish. church, of course evacuating selective. Most of them went without answers. the families who lived there. He wondered about Almira, about It was as a result of that minor the kind of life she was living. He exodus that Almira had met her wondered about the military men, future husband. too. Had they gotten the power they craved? Were there others without wives or jobs because of what he'd done? And how exactly did all these changes occur? There's Squad Leader Becker's signal. Colonel. The fighters are ready for simulated combat. A
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_ Everyone expected Sam's son Kris to follow I a in his dad's footsteps; to join his father in I the outworlds and become one of the hottest I Peacemakers in the service. Hence the I
nickname Steamer: Hot on the old man's | tail! 'ather Steamer 1 . had it all. Born with a natural aptitude"S ^ for flight, the boy, though only thirteen, had the innate courage of a hardened warrior
Though none of us realized it at the time. Steamer's fleeting moments of triumph at the Academy I were destined to be short-lived. An invisible cloud of doom hung over the boy which was to curse I him for the rest of his life.
Y'did it again, Heeeeey, hot stuffiWhen y'goonal Steamer! let the rest of us get in a shot? — ^- - r Colonel Hawk nor myBelf were present, and have only the testimony of the other boys as to what occur- red in the suit-up rooms. - Yet, even the tell cadets could only us so much. The rest we've tried to piece together from the meager clues I that were left behind. 1—13=11 — | flJL
Apparently, Becker, nursing his wounded pride, was lying in wait for the younger and smaller cadet in the I showers. No doubt there were angry words, even maybe some heated punches thrown. Though outweighed I and dwarfed by his Squad Leader, Steamer would not have allowed himself to be intimidated. He would have | given as good as he took. And after the first blood was drawn, the entire incident would have been forgotten . just like any other schoolboy row. I But something else happened down there. Some intangible something we can't quite put our fingers on, which made this much more than a childish altercation. ' n i ' L ) » -1.. 1 1 Ml JW I !«# "Jil I i -Z I About all we do know, is that we lost two c I the finest cadets the academy had ever p duced that night. 1 ^
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Author:Jim Stenstrum Illustrator: Abel Laxamana
Ten minutes later, the helicopter Everything we've >. transporting the Asskickers and the tried has failed against \ Strikers of Brutish Behinds. ap- Humungus. Bombs, rockets, fire, proaches the very heart of Tokyo, and radiation . . . our armed forces monster- hunters come the startled are powerless to stop race-to-face with their darkest nightmare!
Upright, it stands as high as a forty- story building; it is fifteen times more massive than the largest dinosaur; it weighs nearly twelve hundred tons: and it eats whole stadiums of people at a single sitting.
The nightmare's name, for it could on- ly be called one thing: Humungus! f Have you discovered what it is yet, Doctor, or how it got here?
Toho Island: The "Alcatraz" oJ king- sized monsters. Estab- lished in the late 1960s as e 01**.. humane solution to the grow- ing behemoth crisis in Japan, Toho (called "The Rock" by its ^ I* inmates) is the end of the line for the most hardened gargan- %^ JQP tuas.
Insuperable walls five hundred feet high enclose the volcanic island, confining a wide variety of monstrosities, from cata- strophic giant moths to world- wrecking jumbo shrimp to angleworms the size of Globe- masters, which, left to their own devices, would wrestle landscapes and dropkick sky- scrapers without respite.
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!' calaboose in a police launch. Bruno and Suzi go to meet the only creature on earth which might defeat Humungus.
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