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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: darkmark (RIP) on February 23, 2013, 09:22:55 PM
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While doing a little research for a project, I reread some of the run of Lance Lewis in STARTLING COMICS and found something kind of...well...startling. ;-) We're missing issue #44, the ish in which Lance debuts. But issue #45 is the second part of a two-parter that pits Lance against the Mercurians and their Sun King, and mentions specific things about the previous story such as the Room of Glass. Then...I got to our issue #47 and found out that it contained the PRIOR EPISODE of Lance Lewis, right down to the Mercurians, the Sun King, and the Room of Glass! I know that Keltner's index identifies certain features in this issue as being in #47, such as "Sooky". But could it be that he, and we, are wrong, and this is a mislabeled and miscovered #44? Or did they just get the story so out of sequence that the first part wasn't published until three issues after Part Two? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Given that our scan of Startling 47 is coverless there is a good chance you are right DM.
Until another copy of 47 or 44 are finally scanned we likely will never know. I'll make a note on it that it might be the wrong issue.
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I think it really is #47, owing to the presence of Tygra and the fact that she has an origin in #45. But that does mean that, yes, they really did run Lance's introduction story several issues after he was introduced and even after the second part of the story!
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We're going to wait for a c2c 47 to show up to confirm things.