and guest-starred many of the characters who had appeared as backups in the original comics. Chuck Dixon scripted with the occasional assistance of Tim Truman, with Truman, Ron Randall and Stan Woch the main illustrators. Spin-offs from the Eclipse series include the one-shots Airboy–Mr. Monster Special (Aug. 1987), Airboy Meets the Prowler (Dec. 1987), The Air Fighters Meet Sgt. Strike Special (Jan. 1988), Target: Airboy (March 1988), and Airboy vs. the Air Maidens (July 1988). Additional spinoffs starred related characters: Air Maidens Special (Aug. 1987), starring Black Angel, La Lupina, and Valkyrie; the miniseries Skywolf #1–3 (March–Oct. 1988); and two Valkyrie comics, the one-shot Valkyrie: Prisoner of the Past (Dec. 1987), drawn by Paul Gulacy, and the three-issue miniseries Valkyrie! (July–Sept. 1988), penciled by Brent Anderson. In addition, the Air Fighters co-starred in the five-issue miniseries Total Eclipse (May 1988 – April 1989), which featured most of the Eclipse stars together, and the one-shot Total Eclipse: The Seraphim Objective (Nov. 1988). Prisoner of the Past was collected as a trade paperback, as were Airboy #1–5 entitled The Return of Valkyrie. Prisoner of the Past was also published in a hardcover edition. Starting in 1988, Eclipse also published Air Fighters Classics, a six issue bimonthly series dedicated to reprinting the original Golden Age stories of Airboy and related characters. In 2007, Moonstone Books announced plans to revive the World War II character in new stories written by 1980s Airboy writer Dixon. However, the revival did not see print until March 2009, when Moonstone released the one-shot Airboy – 1942: Best of Enemies. Two issues of Airfighters, featuring Airboy, followed in 2010. The Valkyrie character was ranked 45th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. In 2012, Antarctic Press started publishing Airboy: Deadeye by Chuck Dixon, Gianluca Piredda and Ben Dunn. In 2014, Image Comics began publishing a new Airboy comic, written by James Robinson and illustrated by Greg Hinkle. This series begins with fictionalised versions of Robinson and Hinkle engaging in an orgy of drink, drugs and sex while trying to find the inspiration to write a new Airboy series, only for the "real" Airboy to enter their world, much to his horror. Fictional character biography The first Airboy was David ("Davy") Nelson II, the son of an expert pilot and, despite his youth, a crack flyer himself. His friend, inventor and Franciscan friar Brother Francis Martier, had