The Terminator (1st Series)

    (Now, 1988-1990)
™ and ©1984 The Hemdale Film Corporation

In 1988, Now Comics began publishing the first of many comic titles based on the science-fiction blockbuster, “The Terminator.” That epic told of how in August, 1997, a computer defense system called Skynet would gain consciousness and turn on its creators. Within weeks, it had used its control of the nuclear arsenal to all but destroy mankind. Then this machine intelligence began spawning other mechanical creations whose purpose was to annihilate the few human survivors.

By 2031, the leader of humanity, John Connor, was leading his forces toward victory. That’s when Skynet decided to change history and send a killing machine—a Terminator—back through time to kill Connor’s mother Sarah and prevent John from being born. The movie covered Sarah’s struggle for survival, while the eighteen issues of this Now Comics series go back to the future to tell the tale of mankind’s battle against the machines.
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  NotesWriterArtist
#1

September, 1988
Cover Price: $1.75
6 copies available from $5.00 		Fred SchillerTony Akins
#2

October, 1988
Cover Price: $1.75
9 copies available from $2.99 		Tony CaputoThomas Tenney
#2 (Newsstand Edition by Tony Akins & Jim Brozman)

October, 1988
Cover Price: $1.75
1 copy available for $2.99 		Tony CaputoThomas Tenney
#3

November, 1988
Cover Price: $1.75
7 copies available from $2.99 		Tony CaputoThomas Tenney
#4

January, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
8 copies available from $3.99 		Jack HermanThomas Tenney
#5

February, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
10 copies available from $2.75 		Jack HermanThomas Tenney
#6 (Date inside cover is Mar. 1988)

March, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
10 copies available from $1.99 		Jack HermanThomas Tenney
#7

April, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
8 copies available from $1.99 		Jack HermanRobin Ator
#8

May, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
10 copies available from $4.00 		Jack HermanThomas Tenney
#9

June, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
10 copies available from $3.98 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#10

July, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
8 copies available from $1.75 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#11

August, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
14 copies available from $1.50 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#12

September, 1989
Cover Price: $2.95
9 copies available from $1.50 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#13

October, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
9 copies available from $4.00 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#14

November, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
11 copies available from $2.75 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#15

December, 1989
Cover Price: $1.75
5 copies available from $4.98 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#16

January, 1990
Cover Price: $1.75
6 copies available from $1.99 		Ron FortierThomas Tenney
#17

February, 1990
Cover Price: $1.75
8 copies available from $5.00 		Ron FortierRobin Ator