Editorial
Gary Groth and Kim Thompson, "Editorial" (p. 4)
Letters
Blood and Thunder (p. 20)
News
Newsawatch (p. 9)
Interviews Editorial
The Editors, "Heroes for Hire" (p. 4)
Letters
Blood and Thunder (p. 21)
News
Newswatch (p. 8)
Interviews
Ed Via, "Chris Claremont Interview" (p. 48)
Reviews
Jim Dawson, "The Queen is Dead...Finally" (p. 29)
Cat Yronwode, "Blackhawks for Christ" (p. 30)
Jim Wilson, "It Doesn't Blesh" (p. 35)
Greg Huneryager, "Doomsday: Nothing Really Novel" (p. 38)
Margaret O'Connell, "If the Shoe Fits..." (p. 39)
Dwight Decker, "Trigan Empire: Dazzling but Uninspired" (p. 40)
Beppe Sabatini, "The Door to Cell Twenty-Six" (p. 41)
Essays
Paul Levitz, "A Call for Higher Criticism" (p. 44)
Brian Cook, "The Rise and Fall of Richard Nixon and the Monsters from Marvel" (p. 76)
Columns
Dwight R. Decker, "Doc's Bookshelf: Comics of the Gods" (p. 81)
Jeffrey Wasserman, "Jack Spake: The Life Cycle of Comics" (p. 86)

Gary Groth, "We're All Lunatics: The Heavy Metal Interview" (p. 42)
Reviews
Alexandre Koehn, "Machinations" (p. 34)
Bill Sherman, "Cooped Up!" (p. 37)
Kenn Thomas, "Return of the Black Hood" (p. 40)
Raymond Orkwis, "Parsley Flakes: Heavy Metal in Review" (p. 51)

Essays
Ed Via, "The Death of an Innovation" (p. 56)
Carol Kalish and Richard Howell, "Life Among the Mutants: The X-Men Under Chris Claremont and John Byrne" (p. 59)
Columns
Martin Pasko, "Cinema Journal: Alienated " (p. 76)
Illustration
Stu Potts, "Pot Shots" (p. 82)