Alien Encounters (Eclipse)

    (Eclipse, 1985-1987)
™ and ©1985 Eclipse Comics. Cover art ©1985 Joe Chiodo. Stories © their respective authors.

To the great disappointment of many, Pacific Comics ceased publishing in 1984. Eclipse picked up a few of their more popular series, including Alien Worlds, continuing that title’s run until issue #9 when its owners decided to cancel it. A year later, Eclipse decided to offer its own version of that series with Alien Encounters.

Running fourteen issues in all, Alien Encounters offered up some very respectable stories of science-fiction and the unexpected. A two-page quickie by Marc Hempel shows a man with a bionic replacement hand worrying about fitting in—but when he looks out the window, we see that the planet is populated by robots! More involved stories show people dreaming of families and children on the brink of doomsday, running from alien police, and going to outrageous (and deadly) extremes to remake bad robot movies from the 1950s.

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  6/1/1985 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $4.50 2 copies available from $3.99		Buzz Dixon, Eric Dinehart, Ken Macklin, Marc Hempel	Marc Hempel, Mike Gustovich, Mike Hoffman, Toren Smith
	#2 Date:  8/1/1985 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $4.00 5 copies available from $3.99		Christy Marx, Kevin Farrell, Mark Borax, Buzz Dixon	Peter Ledger, Kevin Farrell, Chuck Austen, Nicholas Koenig
	#3 Date:  10/1/1985 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $9.50 2 copies available from $7.99		Buzz Dixon, Jim Baikie, Paul Alexander, James Brock	Attilio Micheluzzi, Larry Elmore, Pedro Henry, James Brock
	#4 Date:  12/1/1985 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $7.00 3 copies available from $4.13		Charles Wagner, Gardner Fox, Tim Conrad, Timothy Truman	Larry Elmore, Tim Conrad, Timothy Truman, Bill Wray
	#5 Date:  2/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $14.00 3 copies available from $12.99	Dave Dorman cover; Nudity	Dave Dorman, Craig Boldman, David Lloyd, Simon Revelstroke, Tim Burgard	Dave Dorman, David Lloyd, Richard Corben, Chuck Austen
	#6 Date:  4/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $28.00 No copies available	Story Nada used as basis for movie They Live	Bruce Jones, Toren Smith, Bill Wray, Len Wein, James P. Hogan	Chuck Austen, Ken Macklin, Lee Weeks, Bill Wray
	#7 Date:  6/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $7.00 3 copies available from $6.00		Bruce Jones, Douglas M. Wheeler, Rick Geary	Bo Hampton, Chuck Austen, Richard Howell, Rick Geary
	#8 Date:  8/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $11.50 4 copies available from $8.00	Marilyn Monroe/Atomic Bomb cover	Bruce Jones, Buzz Dixon, Charles Wagner, Ken Macklin, Toren Smith	Attilio Micheluzzi, Dan Day, Jim Sullivan, Ken Macklin
	#9 Date:  10/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $8.00 3 copies available from $7.99		Bruce Jones, Douglas M. Wheeler, Howard Zimmerman, Tom Field	John Bolton, John K. Snyder, Larry Elmore, Lee Weeks
	#10 Date:  12/1/1986 Cover Price:  $1.75 NM Guide:  $4.25 2 copies available from $4.25	Includes “Exiles” Ray Bradbury adaptation	Beppe Sabatini, Rafe Negrete, Ray Bradbury, Tim Smith	Denis McFarling, Gray Morrow, Rafe Negrete, Tom Sutton
	#11 Date:  2/1/1987 Cover Price:  $2.00 NM Guide:  $6.00 3 copies available from $5.99		Chuck Dixon, Mark Kneece, Scott Hampton, Steve Oliff, Timothy Truman	Karl Waller, Peter Ledger, Scott Hampton, Steve Oliff
	#12 Date:  4/1/1987 Cover Price:  $2.00 NM Guide:  $6.50 3 copies available from $5.99		Buzz Dixon, Nicola Cuti, Ruby	Doug Medved, Karl Waller, Mark A. Nelson
	#13 Date:  6/1/1987 Cover Price:  $2.00 NM Guide:  $10.50 1 copy available for $9.99		Chuck Dixon, Douglas M. Wheeler, Ruby	Doug Medved, Graham Nolan, Hilary Barta, Peter Ledger
	#14 Date:  8/1/1987 Cover Price:  $2.00 NM Guide:  $12.00 1 copy available for $12.99	Final Issue	Beppe Sabatini, Chuck Dixon, Eric Dinehart, Jack Butterworth	Graham Nolan, John Ridgway, Thomas Wimbish, Tom Lyle