Chaykin Stevens

Justice League America #27 by Kevin Maguire

Aztec Ace #3 by Dan Day

Yarn Man #1 by Don Simpson

According to Wikipedia, A Splinter of the Mind's Eye was published in March 1978, by which time I think Marvel's Star Wars comic would have been up to #12. The first original SW stuff would have been the three page strip by Thomas, Chaykin and De Zuniga in Pizzazz #1. I've not read this, but have heard it's terrible. The gun toting rabbit, Jaxxon, was inspired by a chatracter in the first film's cantina sequence who looked vaguely like Porky Pig. Apparently he didn't go down well with George Lucas, and this hastened Roy Thomas's departure. I thought most pre-Return of the Jedi issues were decent. Favourites include the Crimson Forever by Goodwin, Williamson , Simonson and Palmer in SA #50, the Shira Brie storyline by Michelinie, Simonson and Palmer in SW #60-63, and the two issues drawn by Gene Day shortly before his tracically young death, SW #68-89.

GCD credits the top one to Nick Cardy with a Jimmy Olsen vignette by Swan, the middle one to Kurt Schaffenberger, and the bottom one to Ernie Chan and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.

But never masterly.

Breathaker #1 by Marc Hempel

GCD credits the cover to Rick Hoberg and Frank Giacoia, and says Hoberg has confirmed this. They had previously ascribed the cover to Kane and Cockrum erroneously.

Knuckles the Malevolent Nun #1 by Roger Langridge

Enigma #1 by Duncan Fegredo

Some lovely Colan / Sinnott artwork there. Strange line about "more than 15 years ago," though - had Stan forgotten Avengers #4's retcon that Cap had spent 20 years frozen in ice?

Marvelman #25 is the first appearance of Marvelman. Alan Moore and Garry Leach revived Marvelman in Warrior #1 in 1982, reprinted in Miracleman #1. Moore retconned the character's previous appearances as stories fed to him while he was kept sedated. When Moore and Alan Davis worked on Captain Britain, the Fury killed various heroes of Earth-238, who were based on classic British comics characters, e.g. Android Andy = Robot Archie, Tom Rosetta = Kelly's Eye, Miracleman, = Marvelman, the Arachnid = the Spider, Puppetman = Dollmann, Colonel Tusker = General Jumbo, Gaath = Garth, Iron Tallon = the Steel Claw, Roy Risk = Dan Dare. Their gravestones were shown in Marvel Superheroes #388, with the deaths shown in flashback in the Daredevils #7. Miracle Man was the villain in Fantastic Four #3 :-) http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earth239.htm

According to Comichron, Secret Defenders #1 was the 78th most ordered comic in 1993, but they don't give an estimated print run. http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/1993.html

It's from Marvel Team-Up #64, Spider-Man and Daughters of the Dragon by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, cover dated December 1977.

Superman #149 Adventure Comics #312 Adventure Comics #353 Adventure Comics #354 Action Comics #351 Action Comics #354 Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #106 Superman #247 Superman Family #182 Swamp Thing #165

In #17 she is disguised as Nick Fury and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. #18 is the first time her true appearance is shown.

Cat #1 was her first appearancs. Marvel Spotlight #12 was the first full Son of Satan, following cameos in Ghost Rider #1 & 2, Marvel Team-Up #1 was the first issue of a popular and long running series, and the first Misty Knight :-) Ms Marvel #18 was the first full Raven Darkholme/Mystique. She had cameo appearances in the previous two issues

According to Wikipedia, DC Super-Stars #17 and All-Star Comics #69 were released on the same day. Mike's Amazing World says Super-Stars was published 2 days after All-Star, but I'm not sure how plausible that is. Defenders #1 was the 4th Defenders after Marvel Feature #1-3. I think you mean Warlock #10. In-Betweener appeared in one panel in #9.

Cain's first appearance was in House of Mystery #175, but his brother Abel debuted in DC Special #4.

The Marvel Chronology Project considers Circe and Sersi to be two different characters. Circe is listed as having two appearances before Strange Tales #109: Venus #1 (from 1948) & 9 (from 1950), although I'm not sure if she was referred to by name in #1. Do any of Sersi's appearances confirm she appeared in ST or Venus?

The printing and colouring weren't up to scratch in the first couple of individual Eclipse issues. Garry Leach said they were so retina searingly bad he wanted to gouge his eyes out. The recoloured collected edition from Eclipse, Marvel's collected edition or the original black and white stories in Warrior would all be preferable.

Golden pencilled the interior of Micronauts #1, but the cover was by Dave Cockrum and Al Milgrom.

Great choice. Heath and the Bissette/Totleben team were probably both trying to channel Hieronymous Bosch. One page by Heath showing Hellstrom being crucified was rejected and replaced with a page drawn by John Romita, but both versions of the page were published in Essential Marvel Horror #1. The image of Hellstrom on the final page also looked a bit off, as though it might have been tampered with by Romita's Raiders.

Spider-Man Chapter One #1 by John Byrne