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Starhead Presents # 1, 1st edition, 1986, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. Traditional comic format.

Ultra Klutz # 2, 1st edition, 1986, Chico, California : Onward Comics. Jeff Nicholson included a 4-page story of mine in here, "A Guide to Modern Monsters."

Woofer the Psychic Dog broadside, 1988.

Morty Comix # 1882, Starhead ed., 1990

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Starhead Presents # 1 Cover Prep

It's amazing the things I find while engaged in archaeological digging through my studio.

Here's some of the preparation work by Michael Dowers for the cover of Starhead Presents # 1. Color is not my friend, so either Patrick or Michael Dowers hand colored this draft. I love Colin Upton's saying, "Color is for the weak," it provides me with an excuse for being color-challenged.

I'm also noticing something I forgot about. The draft version is actually an entirely different drawing. I don't remember creating more than one cover. Well, it has been nearly 30 years!

I'm also including a scan of the finished and published covers.

Starhead Presents # 1

1st edition, 1986, Seattle, Washington : Starhead Comix. Traditional comic format.

I believe this was my first nationally distributed comic, published during the start of the Great Black and White Glut of the 1980s.

50 copies included a hand drawn Morty Comix inside the front cover. The range was # 1641-1690.

A physical oddity: the cover is made of the same newsprint material as the guts.

This was later re-released by Starhead in 1992 under the title Morty the Dog in the Shadow of the Rainbow.

I'm also including the promotional material Starhead's Michael Dowers assembled for marketing to comic dealers.

Morty the Dog in the Shadow of the Rainbow

This was a reprint of Starhead Presents # 1 (1986). Starhead published this one in 1992 under a new title, called it "second edition," and released it as a regular digest size book. The color cover was mounted and the inside covers were blank. The full wraparound color cover of the original was absent here. One of the more unusual physical specimens in the world of comix.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, July 2005, 5 copies, green cover. In this one I included the original Starhead Presents # 1 info on the inside front cover, and note about the history of the comic on the inside back cover.