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Marks, the 24-year-old Toronto publisher of Vortex Comics, recounts his entrepreneurial path from a profitable paper route to running a comics fanzine, working at the Silver Snail shop, and distributing comics, before launching Vortex. He gives a candid account of the troubled production of Mister X — the creative conflict between Dean Motter and original artist Paul Rivoche, the Hernandez Brothers taking over and later departing — and previews the new Mister X team (artist Seth, inker Bill Diamond). He also discusses Stig's Inferno, Those Annoying Post Brothers, Kelvin Mace, and the appointment of former Heavy Metal editor Lou Stathis to revamp the Vortex anthology.

Reader correspondence including a note from former CI editor Bill Chadwick critiquing issue #67 (correcting a misspelling of Yeats), and a letter from typographer Don Markstein marveling at an Advance Comics solicitation that replaces nudity with violence to create an "all-ages" version of an adult comic.

Don Markstein writes on Bill Lignante's Phantom work and the Gold Key/Charlton comic series; Australian fan Rohan Thompson delivers a detailed report on the publishing dispute between Frew Publications and the Australian creators of Marvel's Lee Falk's The Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks.

Comics Interview Hot Tips From Top Comics Creators #1 is a reference compilation edited by Don Markstein that gathers practical advice from more than 250 working and legendary comics professionals, organized into six thematic chapters covering breaking in, storytelling, business practices, artistic philosophy, working methods, and miscellaneous craft observations. The book grew out of the tip segments that had appeared in Comics Interview magazine across 132 issues and was intended as a durable resource for aspiring creators. Contributors range from Golden Age veterans like Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, and Dick Sprang to then-current stars like Frank Miller, George Perez, and Bill Sienkiewicz, with each contributor briefly profiled in a "Tipsters" biographical section before the tips chapters begin. The volume functions less as a collection of interviews than as a distillation of professional wisdom — a how-the-industry-works manual assembled from hundreds of individual voices rather than any single authoritative perspective.