Amazing Comics Premieres

    (Amazing, 1987)
™ and © Amazing Publishing Company

Originally designed to showcase some of Amazing’s newest talent and stories, black-and-white Amazing Comics Premiers wanted to pilot new features, premiere new series, and provide a format for one-shot wonders. They learned that even older companies have had trouble keeping such variety titles going and the magazine only lasted five issues.

Issue one introduced readers to Ninja Bots-combining the eighties ninja craze with eighties robotic trends. Issue two brought us “The Untouchabots,” melding the world of Elliot Ness with the robot-craze. Issue three contained two stories-”Shadowalker” and “The Ghostchasers” while issue four stared Sam Kieth’s Agatha Moore in “The Great American Murder Bar.” The series ended with Stargrazers.
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  • 1
    #1
    Jan 1987
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Roger McKenzie  ·  A: Kevin Van Hook
    Ninja Bots
    6 copies from $1.75
  • 2
    #2
    Mar 1987
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Robert Kanigher  ·  A: Alan Oldham
    4 copies from $2.25
  • 3
    #3
    Cover: $1.95
    W: Dennis Pimple, David Gomien, Robert Kanigher  ·  A: Kevin Farrell, Charles Walker, Ron Lim
    Includes preview of the New Humans; B&W; ca. 1987
    4 copies from $1.56
  • 4
    #4
    Jul 1987
    Cover: $1.95
    W: John Holland, Ron Courtney, Mike S. Miller, Scott Rockwell, Robert Kanigher  ·  A: Sam Kieth, Ron Courtney, Mike Witherby, John Statema
    Includes preview of The Lunatic Fringe; B&W
    3 copies from $4.00
  • 5
    #5
    Aug 1987
    Cover: $1.95
    W: David Campiti, Cynthy J. Wood, Douglas Rociti  ·  A: Ron Lim, Douglas Rociti
    Stargrazers; B&W
    2 copies from $2.98