Friday, 10 October 2014

1990: ALIEN NATION: THE SPARTANS (Adventure Comics)

Issue 1 without flap.

Issue 1 with flap

Issue 1 back cover

Issue 2

Issue 3

Issue 4

The complete cover gallery for Adventure Comic's ALIEN NATION: THE SPARTANS, the inaugural limited series to emerge out of their licensing deal with 20th Century Fox.  

The first issue came with the colour-paper "outer" seen above.  Low budget variants included blue paper and pink paper.  

The full Adventure Comics run, published between 1990 and 1992, consisted of:

THE SPARTANS (4 issues)
A BREED APART (4 issues)
THE SKIN TRADE (4 issues)
THE FIRSTCOMERS (4 issues)
PUBLIC ENEMY (4 issues)
THE LOST TV EPISODE (one-shot)

and the bonkers:

APE NATION (4 issues)

Only the latter was published in colour.

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