From: ewf2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Eric "JUICE" Fritzius)
Subject: Re: Ambush Bug/TICK/Etc.
Keywords: Interesting, more info
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:28:50 GMT

jwf@kastor.ccsf.caltech.edu (Jon Flower) writes:

>Hi!  I've recently become a big Tick and Ambush Bug fan (related only
>in the sense that both are VERY funny).  Could anyone help me out on
>the history of these characters?




Ello,

I believe that the following list is the complete list of
Ambush Bug appearances.  Michael Toth might be able to tell
you otherwise, however.

THE SUPPOSEDLY DEFINITIVE LISTING OF AMBUSH BUG APPEARANCES.

1)	DC Comics Presents #52 (AB's first appearance.  He begins his
career
as a villain and fights both Superman and the Doom Patrol.  Has to use
little electronic bugs to teleport.)

2)	DC Comics Presents #59 (AB's second appearance.  He manages to
catch a ride to the future with Superman and causes untold amounts of
trouble for the Legion of Substitute Heroes.)

3)	Supergirl #16  (AB has now assumed the role of a superhero.  He
thinks that Supergirl is actually a red Kryptonite affected Superman.)

4)	Action Comics #560 (AB discovers that Clark Kent is actually
Superman.  Also lays down the groundwork for his secret origin.)

5)	Action Comics #563 (AB gets zapped and no longer has to use his
electronic bugs to teleport.  Parodies Spidey's black costume.  He also
tells his secret origin.)

6)	Action Comics #565 (AB knows that he's going to get his own
miniseries and unsuccessfully attempts to get Superman, Batman, Wonder
Woman and the Teen Titans to guest star.)

7)	DC Comics Presents #81 (AB finds a hunk of red-Kryptonite and
tries to give it to Superman as a gift.  As a result, their minds switch
bodies and AB runs amok, stopping
Kobra in the process.)

8)	Who's Who #1 (the Ambush Bug entry.)

9-12)	AMBUSH BUG Miniseries (Four issues.  We meet Cheeks the Toy
Wonder--who promptly dies--,Quantis: the Koala that walks like a man,
get an Ambush Bug history of obscure DC characters and get to re-meet
the Scabbard from Robert Loren Flemming's comic THRILLER.)

13)	Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer (Cheeks returns from the dead and
begins eating dolls.  AB loses his home.  Fun with Hukkas.)

14)	Swamp Thing #46 (This was a Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover.
AB appears on the Monitor's satellite on pages 8 and 9.)

15)	Crisis on Infinite Earths #9 (AB appears on a poster on page 13)

16-21)	SON OF AMBUSH BUG Miniseries  (Six issues.  We meet the
Interferor and several other folks.  AB dies and goes to Hell several
times over.  The costume starts eating people and we finally see AB
taken to court and sentenced to limbo.  The miniseries ends making us
think that AB will never return.)

22)	Secret Origins #48 (Supposedly written as Ambush Bug's swan
song.  Giffen said he didn't want to do anything more with the
character.  AB basically goes on a search for Cheeks and finally winds
up in Belle Reve prison--leading many readers to think that AB would
shortly show up in Suicide Squad.)

23)	Who's Who #16 Vol. 4 (The final entry is for Ambush Bug.)

24)	AMBUSH BUG NOTHING SPECIAL (The most recent appearance.

There was also an interview with Ambush Bug in Amazing Heroes #68.
AB also appeared as a JLI telephone unit in an issue of Mister Miracle.
There was also a DC Comics calendar a few years ago that featured AB
as the poster boy for the month of December.


JSA

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