CATALOG RECORD

Dark Horse Presents #40

Dark Horse · Series began 1986 · May 1990

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Dates

Cover date: May 1990
Pages: 52

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Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Matt Wagner, Ron Randall, Richard Rice, Bruce Zick, Jim Bradrick, Eddie Campbellinks: Matt Wagner, Ron Randall, Richard Rice, Bruce Zick, Jim Bradrick, Eddie Campbellscript: Ron Randall, Matt Wagner, Richard Rice, Bruce Zick, Bob Schreck, Randy Stradley, Jim Bradrick, Mike Richardson, Eddie Campbellletters: Kevin Cunningham, Richard Rice, Karen Casey-Smith, David Jackson, Jack Pollock

Stories

The Aerialist (Chapter 1) · 8 pages
Learns about God · 10 pages
The Argosy (Part I) · 8 pages
Winner's Circle · 2 pages
Randy Stradley announces new cover logo this issue, talks about the contents and introduces new marketing director Bob Schreck's essay. Bob Schreck serves up a brief bio on himself and describes some of the duties of his new job. He discusses this issue's contents as well as other upcoming Dark Horse series.
Diet Riot · 4 pages
Gods, Monks, & Corkscrews · 8 pages

Publisher’s description

Another exciting collection of old favorites and new! Chris Warner's hero of the post-industrial collapse continues his odyssey in Black Cross! Mercy St. Clair, Ron Randall's beautiful bounty hunter of the future faces a new danger in Trekker! Bob the Alien learns about god in a tale from renegade cartoonist Rich Rice! Plus, how Bacchus lost his eye, by Eddie Campbell, interstellar adventure in The Argosy by "knock-'em-dead" newcomer Bruce Zick, and more! It all adds up to another "must have' isue of comics' most acclaimed anthology!

Reprinted in

Trekker Omnibus (2013), The Best of Dark Horse Presents (1989), Eddie Campbell's Bacchus (1995)