"Hot Child in the City"
1st Appearance of Lazarus DelSantiago, Maureen Quinn Fernandez, Lia Ishikawa and the Pinheads gang.
Nappy and Ashley's mom & dad appear in flashback. Lois Lane and Clark Kent appear as tv news reporters in a two panel cameo.
32 pages: 22 of story & art, 3 of poster & Mignola bio, 3 of ads, 4 of letters & creator columns
This issue includes:
- Ashley wearing a Spawn baseball jersey
- a centerfold poster of Ash & Hellboy by Mike Mignola (later used in the 1997 Ash trading card set as card #51)
- letters by writer Steven Grant, columnist Augie de Blieck Jr, writer/artist Erik Larsen, editor Jim Salicrup, editor Jack C. Harris and a mentioned letter from Trent Kaniuga
- advertisements for Ash #3, the 1995 New York Comic Book Spectacular and Comic Cavalcade
Event Shopping Channel offers in this issue:
- a Full-Color Ash Poster MSRP: $6.00
- Ash Limited Edition Lithograph of Ash #1's cover (1/1500) MSRP: $29.95
- Ash Resin Kit (1/200) MSRP: $200 assembled & painted, $150 unassembled & unpainted
The cover art from this issue was later used in the 1997 Ash trading card set as card #2.