Hell On Earth: Battle Book
Issue #1 (January 1999)
Regular Cover - William Tucci/Phyllis Novin $3.99
Signed (Tucci) Cover - William Tucci/Phyllis Novin $?
Vampirella Battlebook [Artists - Claude St. Aubin, J. Brown, Alitha Martinez, Phyllis Novin, Rich Perrotta; Writer - William Tucci]
Not a Vampirella story, but a super hero game. Inside the front cover is instructions on how to play the game - which is a sort of role playing game where players take turns to fight other super heroes/ heroines.
Each page has a full size picture of Vampirella performing a variety of "fighting" actions (such as 'Throw Stake', 'Body Wound' and 'Flying Charge'), a table of scores/ points and comments such as "Tell Vampirella - Do no Red or Orange next turn" and "Tell Vampirella - Do Only Jumps Next Turn". There is also a tear-off score/points "Manoeuvres" card stapled in the middle of the book.
Not my cup of tea - role playing, that is. I am almost totally confused as to what the game is all about (though I have to admit I only gave the Instructions the most cursory of inspections!).
However, the artwork is quite fun and there are a couple of dozen pages of Vampirella in her "Holy War" spiked armour. Well worth getting for the artwork alone, but if you can play the game as well that's a real bonus!
As a collector, make sure that the card insert is still intact. Anyone who has used this book to play the game will have ripped it out (and probably lost it ...), so when considering a purchase ask if the card is still intact as this increases the value of the book.