Atari Force #12

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ATARI FORCE 12 Publ ishe d monthly by DC Comics Inc .. 666 F rith Avenue .New York . .NY 10103 POSTMASTER : Send address h n ~ e s10 ATARI FORCE . DC Comics Inc "Subscription Dept . P.O . Box 1308-F. F,ort Le e, NJ 07024 . Annual subsc ription rale S9 .00. Outs ide U.S .A. 11.00 in U .S . funds . Copynghl 1984 by ATAR I Inc . All RightsReserved . The s to nes , characters and Inci de nts ment ioned In th is maga: ine are ent irely fict ional . All characters fea tured In III s issue and the d ist inctive likenesses thereof aretrademarks 1 DC Comics Inc . Advertising Repre sentat i e Sa nford S chwarz & Co . 355 Lex ingto n Aver. u B. New Yor;' : NY 100 17 . ( 212 ) 3 9' - 1400 . P r inted In U.S .ADC Com iCS In c . A Warner Communica tion s c o m p n v ~


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. This is probably .the most importantprefa 'ce ' to a ' letter column 'vEl ellerw.ritten, and might well be the njOstimpOrtant ATARI FORC$ fanswill ever :flltlle teade l ~ e w h e r eby . .zines ; D

Dear Atari Force :When I first got my copy of ATARI

FORCE 1 , I didn't understand it until I

read it twice . Now I think it's grelltl Ih ave one question : On the cover of #1 Itsays " Introducing the strangest S-Fheroes of alii What does S-F meim?Also , I knew you had to kill off Blackjak ,because you didn't make a file for him.

I picked up issue 6 and thought itwas real exciting and couldn't wait tosee what was going to happen toTempes t . Then I waited for a long time(u ntil Tuesday, when the comic book acome), but what I found was issue #81So if you have any issue #7's around, Iwould gladly pay you double if youwould send one . (I'll even pay postagea nd handlingl)

Oh, I forgot to mention that I like theATARI FORCE video game :

Sincerely,Louis FulmerAshland . OR

(Sorry , Louis, but once again we ' l lhave to tell you that we have no backissues to s p a r _ t r y your local comi,cshop, maybe they can help .

You mentioned the ATARI FORCE

alreadvse .en Ed's ink,$on' " ' I I r u n , : fllQ. lf you're a C fan at

aU, you've .IndoiJbtedlynoticed ~ d scontributions .to DC's coVer. " Is fastbecomihij ooe of

video game, and that 's something wecompletely forgor to let our otherreaders know b o u t ~ s owe'll take this

opportunitY to clue them in: There illanarcade version video game fe81uring theOrigimJl Ate ' ; Force . h's called "AtanFaroe: Code Nama Liberator, " and i fyou'ra lucky enough to hava i t in yourlocal afl1Bde, you'll see CommanderMartin Chllmpion give you your order sto defend a multitude o f worlds fTomattack. C8fTl1l out about two years ago,so it might be a little herd to find right

o w ~ thow many other comic bookcharal>ters cBh say they ' ve had videogames based on thair adventures?

And by the WIly, S-F stends for

science fiction, okay?Dear Editor:

ATARI FORCE # 8 was my favoriteissue so far in the enti re series. Babe ismy favorite character, after Pakrat, in ailof Atari 'orce. I am glad you did thisspotlight issue on hIm; he deserves itlHis childlike innocence and gooonaturedness make Babe a supercharacter . I especially enjoyed pages' 6and 17, when Babe wiped out theenemy gunner base . Greatl

DC OIDI s ftC886 Fllth AvenueNew York , NY 10103

Janette Kahn , President and Publi sherDick Gio rdano, Vice Pres.-Execut ive Edito rAndrew Hetler, EditorTom Condon, Managing EditorPat Bestlenne, EdltOtial Coordinato rBob Rozakis , Production ManagerJoe Orlando, Vice Pres.-Edltorlal D irec tor

Paul levitz, Vice Pres.-OperatlonsBruce Bristow, Marketing DireCt6 tArthur Golowitz , Treasurer

I hope you come up with a be t tername than Shorty-Man " for th e newmember. I also hope that he plays a bi gpart in upcoming issues , not iu s t acharacter to be ihttoduced and k illed offsOOil . lriter.

Ke vin HallRoute 1 Box 216

Castlewood , VA 24224

NEXT ISSUE : So you thin k you 've gotit all figured out right? So you thin k youknow not DIlly the who, but the whlltand why o f the DARK DES TROYE RWell , guass again-naxt issue feat u resthe long-awaited conclusion to ou r f irs tepic maxi-saga (this time for su r e) and t

contains enough twists and turns of theproverbial plot to make your head spin We guarantee that GerT Y Con way andEduardo 8arreto w il l ma k e AT A RIFORCE 13 an issue you w il l n everforgerl Plus: If that's not al l, we ' ve otthe first o f a thrae-pert PAKRAT ta lecalculatad to calm you down a bit af t erall th t excitement . $0 b8 there , oryl>u won't know whet's going on wh enissue 14 tolls aroundl

= Ahdy Heffe l


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A Day in the life of aCartoonis t /C om m uter/Executive Edit

"Good morning- i t ' s 4 :00 A.M., t ime, for WEZN news-yesterday P re s identReagan st a ted that th e r e was only aslight chance tha . . ." Click " Time toget u p - c a n ' t remember .why,though . . Lemme think-(Wonder whyeverybody is itchy in the morning- )0 1 , 1 remembe r l gotta startpenciling the second issue o JONNITHUNDER A .K.A. THUNDERBOlTthis morning Hey, okayl 1 don't mindgetting up for that. Feet , do your stuff .

Quiet. Dar k down the stairs , t u m o nkitchen light, put up the tea kettle, fix

my tea cup, teabag, Sweet 'n Low,cream . Sometimes 1 wonder how wellthe comics busin ess would run withoutcaffeine. Co ffee, tea, Coke .. know howmany people I see during the day tdOD't have a cup or a glass of one of theabove in h i s /her h a nd? Not many.Paul Levitz never to 'uches coffee,neither does Jenette Kahn . Be t theyhave secre t ways of getting theirc affe ine fix, though. D o any otherbusinesses rely o n this stuff? I dunno . Istarted workin g in comics when I was18. Ne ver did anyth ing elae. Howwould I know?

Pot's on the stove. I' playa couple ofgames of solitaire. Handling the cardsgets my fingers li m be red up, a n dplaying the way I do (I mentall ycalcu late odds on turning u p the cardsI need as I play) gets the gray matterlimbered up, too. For variety 1alternatebetween a hall dozen variations of thegame .

Good grief 4 :2211 gotta get crackin ' C u p a tea i n hand. up the stairs to mystudio. Li ghts on . Si t down. Read thescript aqain for the secon d issue ofJOHNI THUNDER. I always read thescript a fe w ' t imes before starting todr aw. Give the story time to s ink inthoroughly. Most of the alorytellingproblems are solved in my mind. nol atthe drawing board. M e r 30 aome-oddyears the drawing problems are simpleto iOlve . . they're general l t te:i. i;,ogltand t haVe all the textlx)okil. AAe.tom y,

perspe ct i v e s, et c . The storytellingproblems are mo re complell. There a ren o textbooks. I rely on instinct.kn owledg

egained

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,cinematic techniques, an d ' plain Q,ld-fashioned lo g ic . Firs t rule : show thereader, don ' t tell him. I feel that I 'vedone my job well i f I can look at paqeeI 've drawn, before the dialogue a n dcaptions are added , and have a QOOd idea of what thes toryisabout . l fyou 'reworking with a good writer, "that's not,so difficult . I' m working with a q o o dwriter on JT and the work is goingw"l land I 'm having fun . Roy Tbomaa (Withan assist from wife DanD) 18 th" writer. Ibought this idea many months ago.Ernie ColeSn was Originally alated to

dra w it, but his b u y 8Chedul" madet

necessary to keep pushlng the starlingdate back . From the day I Ilrst read thepresentation script, I lusted alterJonni .. to draw her adventure-. that is .This had everything the cart oonist inme looks fo r in a series .. an attractivefemale lead, who i s a stron g character,not the uB u al window dreSSin g orappendag e that wo m en in comics are ;a contemp or ary (L.A. ) setting; a privateeye a la Ch an dler, Hammett, et aI.,background ; interesting and realsupporting characters; and finally thesurprise Jonni Thunder. private

investigator, gains a power .. a yery.pecial .pow er. . . and ahe is then alsoknown as ' Thunclerboltf .Anyway, whenit became clear that Ernie would not beable to fit JT in his achedule in theforeseeable future, I assigned t toanother artist. Me . Now . . . eralmonths later, the first isauei.8 penciled,and while I 'm waiting for Roy todialogue it, I 'm pencilin g the l8Condi ss ue .

Th is time, as I read the s'cript, I jotdown some n otes on the reference I'l lneed. 1. Copies'of the last hall of issue#1. This second issue storyline pic;k.sup just minules from the point at whichthl first issue concluded. Also, thereare two flashbacks in the Iirst fivepagee to bring our readers u p to date.2 . ' 57 Thunderbird. Same referencea Iused. on issue "1. A t ip 01 the Giordanobat to .Dave owenfor supplying me

With the hard.to:getphoto8 of thai.classic car. Magnilicent and thorou


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