PUBLISHER: Revolutionary Comics
ISSUE: Volume 1 Number 5, 11/1989 (two printings)
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ALL IMAGES: link
MY GRADE: C
MY THOUGHTS: I'm not at all familiar with comic books and this one appears to have six different stories, two of which have nothing to do with Def Leppard. Upon reading about Rock N' Roll Comics, I see that at least one of those last two comics are in every issue. Really only two of the stories are good but this is still worth owning. The faces are pretty awful and most look nothing like the members. I love seeing the two-page ads in the center and seeing how inexpensive t-shirts and posters were, and the shipping was only $2 per order!
Owner of the company and writer of the stories, Todd Loren, was murdered in 1992 and it's still unsolved. Search his name at Youtube.
ROCKET TO THE TOP, a play on the Def Leppard song Rocket from Hysteria, is the first story and is a fictional biography of the band and is pretty good.
DED LEPERS is the second story and it's awful. It's about a Def Leppard "Golden Greats" album of hits that's being sold on television. It comes with a Rick Allen doll which has a removable arm that's holding a drumstick. Then it turns into a story about Margaret Thatcher trying to get tax money out of them.
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, the third story, tastefully done about drummer Rick Allen losing his arm in 1984.
DEF LEPPARD: HYSTERIA is the forth story and it's odd and stupid. A bunch of famous actors/horror film characters and musicians are hanging out with the band members after a concert (I guess.)
STAN BACK is a comic strip that's in all issues and is one page long. Some guy calls the Heist Corporation Funding Group. He gets a recording instead of a live person so he shoots the phone. The bullet goes through it and comes out of the phone of the Heist Corporation.
TWISTED IMAGE is a parity of film critics Siskel and Ebert but they're called Siskull and Eggbert and some nonsense about a nuclear holocaust.
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