The hefty $5 cover price and the ostentatious title of this deluxe reprint of Armageddon #3 is perhaps reflective of Barney Steel's perception of his own work. That said, the final issue of the series is indeed the best of the Armageddon comic books.

Armageddon #3 features the epic love story of Billy Blue and Shaula Rose, two scientists developing an "immortality serum." They fall in love and engage is some very intense sex before Billy's dalliance with a lab assistant enrages Shaula. As a punishment, she imprisons Billy on a distant planet for a million years. When she finally returns to his side, Billy turns the table on her.extending their eternal love story. Creator Barney Steel closes this series with his best story and his best artwork.

I gave the standard edition of Armageddon #3 a review score of 7 based on the content. I'll give this deluxe edition an extra point just for having the chutzpah to charge $5 for what is barely more than an ordinary printing of a comic book. And because it was close to an 8 anyway.



HISTORICAL FOOTNOTES:
The Vegeance Press printed approximately 5,000 copies of this comic book. It was not reprinted. The Vengeance Press was a subsidiary of Barney Steel Enterprises, which apparently means that Barney Steel financed the reprinting of this issue. This edition was published about two and a half years after the initial printing of 20,000 copies. It features a heavy cover stock and higher-grade interior paper (white pages).

COMIC CREATORS:
Barney Steele - 1-44
Tom Thompson - 2 (poem)