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GUNS OF THE DRAGON #1
Cover Date: October 1998
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Art: Timothy Truman (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Timothy Truman |
| Art | Timothy Truman |
| Lettering | Ken Lopez |
| Colors | John Kalisz |
| Color separations | Jamison |
| Editing | Peter J. Tomasi |
Feature Character(s):
- Enemy Ace (last in Armageddon: Inferno #4)
- Bat Lash (last in DC Universe Holiday Bash #3/6)
- Biff Bradley (first appearance; see comment)
Guest Star(s):
- Miss Fear (chronologically earliest appearance)
Supporting Character(s):
- Chop-Chop I (first appearance; see comment)
Villain(s):
- Labeau (first appearance)
- Vandal Savage (last in ???)
- Kung (chronologically earliest appearance)
- The Dobutsu Ninjas (first appearance; Kung's Beast-Men)
Other Character(s):
- Chiang Kai-Shek (next in issue #4)
- General Joseph W. Stilwell (next in issue #4)
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Chinese soldiers (next in issue #4)
- Communist rebels
- Fan (first appearance; a barbarian chief; in flashback)
Comment(s):
- This adventure takes place in 1927.
- Biff Bradley is a relative of Slam Bradley, and was originally meant to be him until an editorial decision made that impossible.
- The Chop-Chop in this adventure can not be identical with Weng “Chop-Chop” Chan of the Blackhawks. The latter was only in his late teens when he entered World War II and could not have been an adult in the 1920s.
Synopsis: - China in 1927. German World War I flyer Hans von Hammer (a.k.a. Enemy Ace) appears in a brothel owned by aged Western hero Bat Lash. Hammer is cheated into joining Lash and the adventurer Biff Bradley (a relative of Slam) in a mission to – from Bat’s point of view – "help stabilize the situation in China". The trio is assigned by General Chiang Kai-Shek (of the Chinese Nationalist Party) and General Joseph W. Stilwell (of the US government) to travel to a holy place called "Dragon Island" (known today as Dinosaur Island) and fetch a living "dragon" and two enchanted swords to give power and faith to the Chinese people.
- However, their mission may be thwarted by the Vandal Savage, who has allied himself with two different parties – on one side: the Japanese army and the beast-men of Kung. On the other: The forces of Communist rebel Mao Tse-Tung and is deadly companion, Miss Fear. And they are all out to stop our team of dubious heroes and fetch the swords for themselves...