"Zerosis Deathscape Prologue: The Pit"
*The Time Vampire Scientist hosts from a distant planet, across time and dimensions, showing monitors which capture images of the Crime Smasher, Bullwhip, Atlas, and Blind Justice. He also shows us a story from Optic City from the 1940s, of an orphan boy, beset by mobsters. Just as the boy's life seems doomed, the hero Red Maniac attempts to save him. The goons outnumber our hero, and, if not for the intervention of a distant, powerful alien, evil will prevail.
Story written and penciled by Josh Bayer and Josh Simmons, inked by Ken Landgraf, lettered by Josh Simmons, and colored by Daniel Lee; 15 pages. Cover painting by Das Pastoras. *Source: Warlock.