Comic book issue is 60 interior pages (unpaginated); b/w illus. "Hellspawn" begins on p. [2], but is listed in the Table of Contents as beginning on p. [4] (the Table of Contents evidently counts the front cover in the pagination). It is followed by "The Defiers," "Beowulf," "Middleward," "Zadzillca," and "Olan."

"Hellspawn" would not warrant a database entry if it did not collocate with Gustovich and Gorman's "Beowulf." However, given the collocation, Beowulf resonances seem deliberate in this story of a demonic, "half-human" ([3]) invader of a ceremonious space (here, a church), a "thing from hell" ([7]) whose "ember-like eyes glow brightly" ([6]), leading to a confrontation and the creature's flight back to its place of origin (a cemetery) after the group of human combatants "let the demon go" ([12]). The issue as a whole moves from a Grendel-like creature and story ("Hellspawn"), through a series of Beowulf vignettes ("Beowulf") and another image of Beowulf ("Middleward"), to a hero's defeat of a dragon ("Olan").

BAM.