Femforce #173

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Femforce #173 is SOLD OUT! The long-delayed wedding of former government liason to the FF, ROBERTA STROCK is the event of focus for this issues’ lead feature, and Ms. VICTORY, SYNN, SHE-CAT, TARA and STARDUST are on the guest list. But as usually occurs in the AC Universe, things DON’T work out the way they were planned when some unexpected party-crashers make the scene in “Wedding Bell Blues”, written by Stephanie and Mark Heike, with art by Rock Baker and Jeff Austin. Absent from the bridal shower was NIGHTVEIL, still toiling on the world where she originally gained her arcane powers, DARK DHAGOR. Using strategy as well as magic, NV survives the first wave of attackers sent by villainess VIVARNA and her coterie of evil sorcerers, who now THINK they have the upper hand in the battle for control of the planet- but in fact the REVERSE may be closer to the truth, as you’ll see in this latest stanza of NV’s long-running offworld adventure, scripted by Mark Heike, penciled by Scott Shriver and inked by Jeff Austin. Then, SHE-CAT hears rumors of the death of an old FF nemesis- RIPJAW!! But don’t you believe it, because when the ‘Cat goes to investigate the wake, she learns that it was all a trap in “Iron Wake”, scripted by new literary sensation Andrew Hawnt, and illustrated by equally new (and equally sensational) Jacob Bear. Next, a short return to “yesteryear” as The BLUE BULLETEER accompanies a Hollywood pal on a visit to “The Old Dark House”- which just happens to come complete with a creepy butler and a mad scientist. Story by old favorite Mark Holmes, with art by Francesco Savi. Then, we journey back to TARA’s college days for a tale that picks up the plotline from “Rally ‘Round The Flag” back in FF #170. TARA has assumed the identity of the mysterious RACER G to clandestinely drive an new Fremont Motors design in several auto races in hopes the the publicity (and success of the car) will keep the FMC manufacturing plants open. When RACER G ( with pal JANIS LAWSON as navigator) enters a rugged California road race, she finds herself caught between fanatical “green” activists and an underhanded racing team from Finland in “Race To The Finnish”, written by Mark Holmes, drawn by Brian Dunphy and Mark Heike, and inked by Scott Shriver. After that, we head all the way back to the 1880’s for an adventure of The BLACK PHANTOM. When the reformed lady outlaw stops to help a strident suffragette, she wonders whether the cure may be worse than the disease in “Right To Vote”, written by that man again, Mark Holmes; with art by Rock Baker and Jeff Austin. Finally, it’s back to the war-torn Pacific of 1944, where The Black Angel must solve the mystery of near-superatural Japanese harpies taking a toll on Allied warplanes, in “Painted Ladies”; an encore presentation of a story originally appearing in Cape and Mask #1. (NOTE: all AC web shop orders for this book will be shipped with the special, unannounced variant cover (by Stephanie Heike) you see pictured here. This is NOT the standard-issue FF #173 cover {also a Steph Heike design} that was offered through comic shops) All totalled, it’s the usual 80 pages of top-flight “good girl” art, action and intrigue, in crisp black and white ( with color covers) at standard comic book size, saddle- stitched. priced at $9.95. Released in 2015.

About AC Comics

AC Comics is an independent comic book publisher! We sell our brand new comic books  worldwide every month through comic shops worldwide through Diamond Distribution's Diamond Previews catalog and our comic book back issues (from 1982 up to today!) through our website at https://www.accomics.com . AC Comics was started by publisher/writer/artist Bill Black.  Our best known comic book is Femforce, published since 1985. There was a Femforce Special in 1984, prior to the start of the regular series. Mark G. Heike and his wife Stephanie Heike took over day-to-day publishing of AC Comics in 2014. As of 2023, AC Comics published Femforce #200 by original creator Bill Black.  

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Contact us directly via Mail or Order Comics By Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

AC Comics has been based in the cosmopolitan Orlando, Florida area since the early 1980's. The AC Comics P.O. Box address based in Longwood, Florida that was printed in all of our comics prior to 2014 is still active and goes directly to Bill Black.

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We have experimented with digital comics, but we have no interest in pursuing digital comics any further at this time. Since we actually need the sales of comic books to keep publishing (and have virtually no ancillary products with our characters on them like the corporate conglomerate comics), we are still relying on physical comics sales through comics shops worldwide through Diamond Distribution.

Domestic USA orders

AC Comics is an independent comic book publisher! AC Comics is not a comic shop retailer. We sell our brand new comics worldwide through Diamond Distribution and our comic book back issues (from 1983 up to today!) through our website at https://www.accomics.com . We always urge you to support your local comic book retailers to PRE-ORDER and BUY your NEW COLOR AC Comics from them, but if you can't find AC back issues, we have most of them here on our online store. To Order on our on-line store, go to our store page. On our AC Web Store To Order by Mail: List the items you would like to purchase on a sheet of paper and send check or money order to: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394 Remember to include appropriate shipping for the total number of items you have selected. If you want to be exact, you can email us. To Order by Phone: Call 407-767-0199 Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time). Note that this is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you. To Order by Email. Email us about what you want to order. We can weigh the comics at the USPS and email you the price plus shipping. [contact-form][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]

International Orders

If you are International (Not in the USA), please DO NOT ORDER ONLINE at this time. Please contact us directly via  email (form below)

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or you can phone call ( 407-767-0199 )
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Landline, no text!

--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you and hopefully arrange special shipping to you.

Due to shipping problems, we no longer offer online international shipping automatically as one of our options on our store at this time.

International packages can take up to 6 to 8 weeks for flat rate delivery.

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Licensed and Custom Comic Books

Do you have a project that you would like to see as a custom designed comic book? We can take your concept through approval at various stages to finished product. We have over thirty years of experience doing custom comic books and officially licensed comics over the years for various clients and property holders. Among others, AC Comics reprints of Roy Rogers western comics were authorized by Roy Rogers and his estate. Sheena, Queen of the Jungle was done with the approval of the rights holder Paul Aratow, who bought the rights doing the Sheena movie in the 1980's. Bill Black and Mark G. Heike did an award winning promotional comic book for Roy Rogers/Hardee's as a freelance project. Mark G. Heike and Stephanie Heike did the Calgary Stampede adventures comic book. Please email us for more details. Contact us directly via email :  [contact-form][contact-form to='(FemforceHQ@aol.com)' subject='Custom/Licensed comic book'][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]

On our AC Web Store

Our online ordering system is very easy to use on your phone, tablet or computer! We now accept Debit and Credit--with VISA, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Paypal and more! You can also order via check or money order--see below! To order on our AC Comics Webstore: Please click on the Category Links (Femforce, Westerns, Golden Age, etc) to browse through our collection of over 700 back issues available right now in our store. If you're looking for our most recent color issues, please go to your local comic book store. You can also use the Search Box located on the top of every page to find items by keyword. If you are having trouble locating a book, try looking for the year it was published (from 1983 to present) which should show you everything that came out that year that's currently on the shop. If it's not on the shop, we still have several comics not yet back up, so please email us if you're looking for something that's not there! Just because it's not on the shop doesn't mean it's "rare" or sold out, we just don't have time to re-list them all! We've have several shop changes over the years and simply not every book is listed. "Add to Cart" buttons will add the item you select to your online shopping cart for purchase when you are ready to checkout. You can change the quantity of the items selected within your cart if you would like to purchase multiple copies of the same product. You can then proceed to checkout and purchase your items   through Stripe or PayPal. Using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay with Stripe is the first button option! PayPal is the second button option. You can also use credit or debit there as well. You can also order our back issues via check or money order. Email us a list and we will calculate postage via USPS. [contact-form][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form] Please contact us directly about International Orders!

Our AC Comics books

AC Comics is an independent comic book publisher! AC Comics is not a comic shop retailer. We sell our brand new comics worldwide through Diamond Distribution's Diamond Previews catalog through comic shops worldwide and our comic book back issues (from 1983 up to today!) through our website at https://www.accomics.com .

We always urge you to support your local comic book retailers to PRE-ORDER and BUY your NEW COLOR AC Comics from them, but if you can't find AC back issues, we have most of them here.  Yes, we are SOLD OUT of some of the latest COLOR issues and have priced remaining copies accordingly.

  We have back issues since 1982 for sale on the AC shop. If you can't find something you're looking for or if you experience any trouble with our online store, please contact us! The prices are based on the current quantity we have in stock. We are SOLD OUT of some of the latest COLOR issues and have priced remaining copies accordingly. If you want the new color issues at the $5.95 COVER PRICE, please pre-order them from your local comic book shop through the Diamond Previews catalog. The older newsprint color books, unless they're rare, we usually have in stock, but all the black and white issues were published in a much lower quantity --when they're gone, they're gone!  

Submission Guidelines for AC Comics

Submission Guidelines

For Pencillers, Inkers, Letterers and Colorists:

We really love and appreciate getting enthusiastic artist submissions from potential freelancers, including pencillers, inkers, letterers and colorists wanting to do comic books, but please DO NOT send ANY attachments to this email address.

 

If you have your art posted somewhere online on a site that you could send us a link to, that would be great!

Please email links to your artwork posted somewhere online (for example, on a showcase/gallery website  or a dropbox/wesendit/etc.. file  to show off your artwork)  and we'll check them out.

 

We would like you to be able to demonstrate some ability to produce reasonably effective comic book continuity ( Six or seven pages utilizing multiple panels telling a story or sequence of a story) with attractive people/superheroes/superheroines.

 

Ideally, we would like to see four or five of those pages with depictions of mundane everyday scenes to give us an idea of the quality of the comic artwork by itself before we make a decision to move the discussion along.

We are looking for sequential storytelling in comic book art. We've gotten several people sending us "paintings" lately --static, digitally over-rendered  generic straight-on shots of individual characters and being indignant when we've told them "No, this is wrong." We want to see comic book artwork.

While we do not strictly have a "House Style", we do prefer material that will lend itself to "classic American style comic books".  If you can draw attractive people using sequential storytelling , we can probably find a place somewhere your material will work.

  • Pencils: should be sequential and un-inked--if you have  inked samples of your pencils, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pages.
  • Inks: Samples should be sequential pages--if you have  inked samples, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pencilled pages.
  • Color: Color should be directed towards print publication.  We would like to see samples of included of both  finished tones with special FX and preliminary flats.
  • Lettering:  Should have some basic display samples as well as balloon lettering.  Show that you can handle standard comic book dialogue and sound FX. (We do not use lower case fonts unless a character is whispering!)

Contact us directly via email :

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For Comic Books:

 

We are also potentially interested in publishing previously established comic book creators and/or established comic book properties as creator owned comics.  That means, if we've heard of you and we like you, we might be interested!

Please DO NOT send unsolicited characters, concepts or comic books. THIS MEANS PLEASE DON"T SEND US ANYTHING,   PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL AND ASK US FIRST.

Please, no comic book titles, no proprietary characters or anything related specifically to your concept should ever be sent to us at this time.

Contact us directly via email below.: 

[contact-form][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]

The AC Comics office phone is: 407-767-0199

Our hours are 9AM--5PM weekdays EST (Eastern Standard Time)

(Note: This is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you.

You can also contact us directly via Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

Submission Guidelines For Comic Books


Submission Guidelines For Comic Books:

We are also potentially interested in publishing previously established comic book creators and/or established comic book properties as creator owned comics. That means, if we've heard of you and we like you, we might be interested! Please DO NOT send unsolicited characters, concepts or comic books. THIS MEANS PLEASE DON"T SEND US ANYTHING, PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL AND ASK US FIRST. Please, no comic book titles, no proprietary characters or anything related specifically to your concept should ever be sent to us at this time.

Contact us directly via email below.:

[contact-form to="FemforceHQ@aol.com" subject="Comic details"][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="1"][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="1"][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea"][/contact-form]

The AC Comics office phone is: 407-767-0199 Our hours are 9AM--5PM weekdays EST (Eastern Standard Time) (Note: This is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you. You can also contact us directly via Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

Submission Guidelines: For Pencillers, Inkers, Letterers and Colorists:

Submission Guidelines:

For Pencillers, Inkers, Letterers and Colorists: We really love and appreciate getting enthusiastic artist submissions from potential freelancers, including pencillers, inkers, letterers and colorists wanting to do comic books, but please DO NOT send ANY attachments to this email address.

 

If you have your art posted somewhere online on a site that you could send us a link to, that would be great! Please email links to your artwork posted somewhere online (for example, on a showcase/gallery website or a dropbox/wesendit/etc.. file to show off your artwork) and we'll check them out.

 

We would like you to be able to demonstrate some ability to produce reasonably effective comic book continuity ( Six or seven pages utilizing multiple panels telling a story or sequence of a story) with attractive people/superheroes/superheroines.

 

Ideally, we would like to see four or five of those pages with depictions of mundane everyday scenes to give us an idea of the quality of the comic artwork by itself before we make a decision to move the discussion along. We are looking for sequential storytelling in comic book art. We've gotten several people sending us "paintings" lately --static, digitally over-rendered generic straight-on shots of individual characters and being indignant when we've told them "No, this is wrong." We want to see comic book artwork. While we do not strictly have a "House Style", we do prefer material that will lend itself to "classic American style comic books". If you can draw attractive people using sequential storytelling , we can probably find a place somewhere your material will work.

  • Pencils: should be sequential and un-inked--if you have inked samples of your pencils, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pages.
  • Inks: Samples should be sequential pages--if you have inked samples, please include both the inked and the UN-inked pencilled pages.
  • Color: Color should be directed towards print publication. We would like to see samples of included of both finished tones with special FX and preliminary flats.
  • Lettering: Should have some basic display samples as well as balloon lettering. Show that you can handle standard comic book dialogue and sound FX. (We do not use lower case fonts unless a character is whispering!)

Contact us directly via email : [contact-form][contact-form to='(FemforceHQ@aol.com)' subject='Artist Submission'][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]


For Comic Books:

 

We are also potentially interested in publishing previously established comic book creators and/or established comic book properties as creator owned comics. That means, if we've heard of you and we like you, we might be interested! Please DO NOT send unsolicited characters, concepts or comic books. THIS MEANS PLEASE DON"T SEND US ANYTHING, PLEASE PHONE OR EMAIL AND ASK US FIRST. Please, no comic book titles, no proprietary characters or anything related specifically to your concept should ever be sent to us at this time. Contact us directly via email below.: 

[contact-form][contact-form to='(FemforceHQ@aol.com)' subject='Creator Owned submission'][contact-field label="Name" type="name" required="true" /][contact-field label="Email" type="email" required="true" /][contact-field label="Website" type="url" /][contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /][/contact-form]

The AC Comics office phone is: 407-767-0199 Our hours are 9AM--5PM weekdays EST (Eastern Standard Time) (Note: This is a regular business telephone--NOT a "smart" cellular device--so please leave a message on our answering machine with your name and phone number and we'll get back to you. You can also contact us directly via Mail: AC Comics P.O. Box 394 Plymouth, FL 32768-0394

Though Comic Book Stores

We sell our brand new comics to comic stores worldwide through Diamond Distribution. We always urge you to support your local comic book retailers to PRE-ORDER and BUY your NEW COLOR AC Comics from them. Go to your local comic book shop and ask for Diamond Previews. Look under "AC Comics" in the Diamond Distribution Previews catalog. You will see a listing that's an advance order --that's a couple of months ahead of when it will actually ship to the comic shop. Ask the store owner to order the comic book for you. You will then get the comic books in-store in a few months and be able to buy it at cover price or less.