Captain Saucer "The Big Project" (1983) An early, failed attempt to do a 'prozine' when a certain "roach infested" Minneapolis indie publisher showed some interest. It was rejected for being "too weird", "too retro", "too Punk" and "too New Wave" and other such cliches that I would heard from pros and publishers over the '80s.....

Brisbane the Barbarian & Captain Saucer Team Up (1988, Captain Cheepo) "The Universe's coolest hero meets its dumbest." C.S., Kurt Wilcken's Brisbane, plus several friends and foes get zapped to the "Perpendicular Zone" that intersects all the parallel universes.

Captain Saucer back cover (late 1983) "No coffee table is complete without Leonine Press Comics...." Lovely "atomic retro" before its time. What could be more "space age" than an C.S. issue, a boomerang coffee table, and a Predicta TV flying through the cosmos?

Captain Saucer back cover (variations 1984-1987) "Fanboy wants you.... to buy this stuff!" I came across this and thought it would be a cool layout for a web page, so here's this and the previous page.

Ameriman (1984-87) These backup stories in Captain Saucer were like something that might come from D.C. comics if somebody spiked their java machine with acid. The original ideas came from a weird dream that I had back in second grade.

Kung Fu Elvis (1985-87) Then there was Ameriman's most flamboyant foe, who got his own back cover as a second, faux front cover on Captain Saucer #18(1987). "HYYY-AH, BAY-BUH!"

Fanboy (1983-1991) started as a backup story in Captain Saucer and was collected and spun off into his own books, but that's a different story and webpage.

Minor character and obnoxious space amazon with a screw lose, Lumpy, and her telepathic cat blunder through two spinoffs, Lumpy the Amazon (1982) and Return of the Lumpy (1983). That 'do is an injoke in the second series InterStellar OverDrive #2.

Leonine Press Calendar (1983-1987) Calendars based on the comics. My most favorite small press publication was the '87 calendar, the most inspired, with all pinups and colorful key-lined xerography. It tanked in sales, so there was no '88 calendar.

Captain Saucer Trilogies (1993) Shon Howell thought that it would be cool to do an "omnibus archival reprinting" like the old '80s C.S. Trilogies but with added historical info plus new covers and pinup art. It didn't sell, so never got beyond the first issue.

Various catalogs and flyers were done over the years to promote Captain Saucer and other mondo funky products of Leonine Press. This example features the 1987 Studebaker Hawk and the tailless rear end of humungous flying wing (preceding an ad placing a luxury car in front of the newly unveiled B-2 by over a year!).