Crossroads #5 1988 First Comics Higher Grade Comic Book Q90-32

"Vicious Circle featuring Grimjack, Dreadstar and Nexus Last issue; Grimjack ad Judah Maccabee joined forces and tracked down the infamous slaver Clausius. Having defeated Clausius, they retired to Munden's Bar. One thing led to another, and soon the two warriors found themselves involved in a cosmic bowling tour of the pan-dimensional city of Cynosure (Grimjack no. 52). In an entirely different universe, Vanth Dreadstar received an assignment to track down the war criminal Caracatus Swarm, who apparently had taken refuge in Cynosure (Dreadstar no. 39). And on Procyon, Nexus' daughter Scarlett has a vision that her father's life was being threatened by a man with a scar across his left eye (Nexus no. 50). Across infinite space and time, parallel lives meet at the Crossroads ... --Recap Page Horatio Hellpop -- a.k.a. Nexus --dreams of mass murderers. And when he wakes, he is compelled to sek them out and assassinate them. His fusion powers, derived from the stars, are almost limitless. But there is a price: he must kill victims chosen by the mysterious 'Merk,' and the Merk is n lalien being with an alien sense of justice. Nexus lives on Ylum, a moon orbiting the dead planet Marlis in a remote sector of our galaxy. Grimjack is John Gaunt. In his time, he's been many things: a soldier in the Demon wars, a cop with the Trans-Dimensional Police, a spy with the secret organization Cadre and, for a brief period, a corpse. His home is Cynosyre, a city where the dimensions converge and the laws of physics are subject to abrupt and unexpected change, depending on which side of the street you happen to be on at any given time. Magic works here and there, science works elsewhere and swords work everywhere. Those looking for Grimjack usually start at Munden's Bar. Dreadstar is the story of Vanth Dreadstar, a man with 'extraordinary' power. Among those powers are the strength of fiftneen men, the ability to absorb extra power from external sources, and a remarkable self-healing capability. He used to have even greater powers -- but he lost them in his final battle with the Lord Papal of the Church of the Instrumentality. Dreadstar lives in the Empirical Galaxy, where those with para-normal powers have become outcasts. The former rulers of the galaxy had stayed in control through use of such powers, and the populace had no desire for a repeat performance. But they did have one use for those like Dreadstar, to hunt down and bring to justice the remnants of the Church of the Instrumentality. --Introduction"