from Mars: In-Depth: BM Comics: Letter Column Issue #1

RICK'S PICKS

        Now this is what I call exciting! Ya see, just like you readers, I've been reading Marvel Comics for a whole lot of years. When I think of all the times I took a break in a story to see what was happening in Stan's Soapbox...I never dreamed that I might someday get the chance to do some yakkin' of my own in Bullpen Bulletins! But here I am...and I like it!!!
        So how do I use this awesome opportunity? (After all, I want to make sure they let me do it again!) I guess I should begin by talkin' about that which brought me here...BIKER MICE FROM MARS!
        It all began about three years ago. You never really know where an idea comes from...but when this one hit, it hit with a vengeance! I just sort of had this vision of hard ridin' mice from another planet sitting on top of the baddest motorcycles this universe had ever seen! Next thing I knew, Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie, collectively known as the "Biker Mice from Mars," were in control of my brain and making their own plans to save Earth from the evil Plutarkians and The Big Cheese himself...Lawrence Limburger! Pretty soon, the Biker Mice had been introduced to Charley and Limburger had joined forces with Greasepit and the heinous hydrocephalic Dr. Karbunkle! All of them were stuck inside my head...and they wanted to get out!!!
        Now, if you should happen to find yourself possessed by some of the baddest motorcycle mamajammers this side of the Solar System, there's only one place you can go right?!? Ya gotta go to Marvel...and so to Marvel I went!! Next thing I knew, we were making cartoons, toys, video games...and best of all...Marvel Comics! You just gotta known that it doesn't get any better than this!!!
        So, my new reader bros, I do hope you'll enjoy this month's issue of BIKE RMICE FROM MARS! And, while I'm on the subject, be sure to take a look at your local TV listings to find out where you can watch the BIKER MICE FROM MARS television show in your town. Most likely, you'll find it every week on a Saturday or a Sunday. Check it out...'cause I'm pretty certain you're gonna like it!

Ride Free, Citizens!
Rick Ungar

        Welcome to the BIKER MICE FROM MARS; the new super-team that could be you (if you happen to be a furry motor-mouse from the fourth planet)! Oh, you are the suave comics reader! You had the good sense to pick up this first issue without even having seen the soon-to-be-hit TV show it's based on! BIKER MICE FROM MARS #1 serves as the first real introduction of these cosmic motorcyclin' mamajammers to the planet Earth! In mere weeks, you'll have the extreme pleasure of seeing the Biker Mice in animated activity on your TV set.
        Like a lot of popular TV show characters, Vinnie, Modo, and Throttle, along with their machinery and adversaries, will soon be out as toys, video games, home video, and more. You'll even see the Biker Mice hanging out with Michael Jordan of the Chicago BUlls in Ball Park frank ads on TV this month!
        The production values of the BIKER MICE FROM MARS cartoon series are excellent and if you enjoy watching the X-MEN on TV, you'll totally dig this new show! A lot of creative people with major TV and comic book experience worked on the production along with many celebrities like Dorian Harewood and MTV's Ricky Rachman, who provides voices for the characters in every episode. Maybe we'll profile these creators in future issues if there is reader interest.
        The action in the show is intense and this, along with the sound effects and the loud rock soundtrack, will send fuddy-duddies scurrying to complain to their local senators! There are plans to release a Biker Mice rock album with tunes from the series, so we'll probably be seeing the boys getting down on MTV in the near future.
        The BIKER MICE FROM MARS is a very important comic book for Marvel, so we put the very best talent there is on it. Who better to write the first three issues of the comic than the creator of the TV show? Marvel Productions producer Rick Ungar, along with the Biker Mice Story Editor Bob Forward, have adapted the first episode covering the origin of the Biker Mice, into comics form to insure that the dudes translate directly from the screen to the page, as you can see in Rick's column to the left, he's a big comics fan and worked closely in the creation and the development of this comic. Obviously, Rick has big plans for the Biker Mice and this magazine is a part of it!
        With his diverse background, artist Rurik Tyler is the perfect choice for the pencil art on this book. Having worked on titles from DARKHOLD and MIDNIGHT SONS to WHAT TH' and Cracked, Rurik captures both the humor and the drama that is the Biker mice. You'll trip when you see his cover for the next issue of BIKER MICE FROM MARS!
        Inker Gary Fields is a double threat as he also lettered this issue. Gary's worked on a wide range of comics, created tons of his own characters and also contributes art to some comic called Teenage Mutant Something or others.
        The less that is said about colorist Pocho Bemko, the better! Seriously, tough, she has contributed hues to many Walt Disney comic and adds her colors to this first installment of the Biker Mice.
        If you thought the cover to this issue is kickin', wait'll you see next issue's! Rurik Tyler provides an awesome painting introducing the menace of Dr. Karbunkle and his loathsome laboratory. Inside the comic, you'll meet Limburger's resident mad doctor and learn Karbunkle's sinister connection with the secret origin of Vinnie, Modo, and Throttle. If that's not enough, Karbunkle unveils his latest tool to trap the Mice, the dread X-Terminator!
        Chances are, if you nailed this comic, you'll enjoy some more monster-soaked comics from Marvel coming out next month in eerie October. Check out X-MEN VS. DRACULA #1, with Wolverine, Cyclops, and the other mighty mutants battling the infamous Lord of the Vampires, Count Dracula. One of the more shocking things about this comic is it's only $1.75 for 48 pages of fear-encrusted super action! It's the same price of admission to party with the Frankenstein Monster and the swamp beast called Man Thing in BOOK OF THE DEAD #1.
        And then for all-out giant monster battles featuring classic stories from the early Marvel Age by the legendary Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, reserve Monster Menace #1 at your local comics shop now! curse of the weird #1 digs a little deeper in the Marvel horror vault to drag out the oddest comics ever published. You gotta see it to believe it! Both of these titles are at an ultra-affordable $1.25 (American)!
        This here page will be reserved in the future as a place for your letters concerning the BIKER MICE FROM MARS, so we'd like to hear from you and print your comments! We're also looking for a title for this page, so if you have any ideas, send 'em to the address above.
        Until the next time we meet (and you'll have already checked out a few episodes of this radical new show by then, do as the Martian Mice and "Rock and Ride, citizens"!

MORT TODD--EDITOR

NEXT ISSUE: DR. KARBUNKLE STRIKES!

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