AC Annual

    (AC, 1990-1992, 2005)
™ 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

			Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  Cover Price:  $3.95 NGuide Price:  $10.00 1 copy available for $8.99		ca. 1990	Richard Rome, Bill Black, Gardner Fox, Chris Allan	Richard Rome, Bill Black, Mark Propst, Bob Powell, Jordi Ensign, Ralph Cabera, Syd Shores
	#2 Date:  Cover Price:  $5.00 NGuide Price:  $9.00 2 copies available from $8.50		ca. 1991	Bill Black, Gardner Fox	Dick Ayers, Chad Hunt, Bill Black, John Nadeau, Ted Seko, Mark Heike, Rik Levins, Frank Turner, Bob Powell
	#3 Date:  5/1/2011 Cover Price:  $3.50 NGuide Price:  $8.50 1 copy available for $4.50			Bill Black	Dan Reed, Rik Levins, Vic Bridges
	#4 Date:  Cover Price:  $3.95 NGuide Price:  $3.50 5 copies available from $3.50		ca. 1993	Bill Black, Mark Heike, Nick Northey	Tom Moser, Vic Bridges, Leonard Castro, Sonny Delos Sontos, Nick Northey, Mark Heike
	#2005 Date:  Cover Price:  $15.95 NGuide Price:  $16.00 No copies available			Hack Koilby, Bill Black	Mark Heike, Tony Sgroi, Dick Ayers, Norman Hardy Jr., Bill Black, Richard Rome