Editorial
Gary Groth, "An Explosion in a Cesspool" (p. 6)
Letters
Blood and Thunder (p. 17)
News
Newswatch (p. 8)
Interviews
Paul Kupperberg, "Pencillers: Brent Anderson, Gil Kane, Joe Kubert, Steve Leialoha, Jerry Ordway, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Trevor Von Eeden" (p. 47)
Mike Gold, "Writers: Max Collins, Peter Gillis, Archie Goodwin, Bruce Jones, Paul Kupperberg, Roger Slifer, and Marv Wolfman" (p. 57)
"Gil Kane and Howard Chaykin" (p. 67)
Gary Groth, "Mike Gold, Archie Goodwin, Larry Hama, Rick Marschall, and Len Wein" (p. 79)
Mike Gold, "Artist/Writers: John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, Will Eisner, Mike Grell, and Dave Sim" (p. 87)
"Visual Storytelling: Denys Cowan, Jackson Guice, Marshall Rogers, Charles Vess, and Mary Wilshire" (p. 95)
Gary Groth, "Harvey Kurtzman" (p. 103)
Reviews
Steve Monaco, "Splendor's Splendid but Don't Bring Me Your Love" (p. 23)
Jan Strnad, "Get Thee Behind Me, Cliff Notes" (p. 28)
R.C. Harvey, "For the Love of Comics" (p. 32)
Dale Luciano, "Four From Strnad" (p. 41)
Columns
Bill Sherman, "Erosions and Exceptions: The Puzzling World of Howski Studios" (p. 109)
Allen Varney and Dwight R. Decker, "Books Without Pictures: Two Comics-Related Novels" (p. 112)