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AC Annual

    (AC, 1990-1992, 2005, 2011)
™ Americomics, ©1992 AC Comics

Bill Black, the publisher and head writer of AC Comics, has been very successful at revitalizing a number of second–tier Golden Age characters and combining them with characters of his own. Known primarily for Femforce, an all–woman group, Black brings the fun and exuberance back to comics with straightforward, unpretentious, super–hero deeds and not a small amount of good–girl art.

AC Annual features new stories about characters from decades ago, like American Crusader, Rocketman, and Jet Girl. The back–story, related in a capsule history on each character’s pinup page, reveals that they voluntarily underwent suspended animation in Jonathan Weir’s Vault of Heroes until such time as the world needed them. Naturally, a crisis precipitated by the Black Shroud necessitated the heroes’ reawakening. Now they’re back to resume crime fighting in the modern era, though their 1940s attitudes make them something of an anachronism.

— George Haberberger
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  • 1
    #1
    Cover: $3.95
    W: Richard Rome, Bill Black, Gardner Fox, Chris Allan  ·  A: Richard Rome, Bill Black, Mark Propst, Bob Powell, Jordi Ensign, Ralph Cabera, Syd Shores
    ca. 1990
    No copies available
  • 2
    #2
    Cover: $5.00
    W: Bill Black, Gardner Fox  ·  A: Dick Ayers, Chad Hunt, Bill Black, John Nadeau, Ted Seko, Mark Heike, Rik Levins, Frank Turner, Bob Powell
    ca. 1991
    No copies available
  • 3
    #3
    May 2011
    Cover: $3.50
    W: Bill Black  ·  A: Dan Reed, Rik Levins, Vic Bridges
    1 copy for $7.98
  • 4
    #4
    Cover: $3.95
    W: Bill Black, Mark Heike, Nick Northey  ·  A: Tom Moser, Vic Bridges, Leonard Castro, Sonny Delos Santos, Nick Northey, Mark Heike
    ca. 1993
    3 copies from $3.50
  • 2005
    #2005
    Cover: $15.95
    W: Hack Koilby, Bill Black  ·  A: Mark Heike, Tony Sgroi, Dick Ayers, Norman Hardy Jr., Bill Black, Richard Rome
    No copies available