did not feature comics characters but parodied the First Comics office; it was written and drawn by Bruce Patterson. E-Man ended with issue #25. It was followed by the seven issue mini-series The Original E-Man and Michael Mauser, reprinting the Charlton series and Mauser's backup stories in Vengeance Squad. Issue #7 of the miniseries featured a previously unpublished story introducing E-Man's sister Vamfire. During the mid-1980s run, Staton acquired rights to the character from First, although First Comics retained ownership of their publications. As Staton described: Later publications In 1989, Comico published an E-Man one-shot (Sept. 1989) by Cuti and Staton followed by a three-issue miniseries (Jan.-March 1990). After Comico's demise, Alpha Productions issued two one-shot publications, E-Man (Sept. 1993) and E-Man Returns (1994). E-Man appeared in the two-page story "Come and Grow Old With Me", by Cuti and Staton, published in the magazine Comic Book Artist #12 (March 2001). In 2006, Cuti and Station produced three one-shots released by Digital Webbing Press E-Man: Recharged (Oct. 2006); E-Man: Dolly (Sept. 2007); and E-Man: Curse of the Idol, per its cover-logo trademark, a.k.a. E-Man: The Idol, as copyrighted, per its postal indicia (Nov. 2008) abetted by co-writer Randy Buccini on the third. The indicia for each listed E-Man as copyrighted by "Joe Staton/First Comics". A previously unpublished E-Man story (done originally for Alpha Productions) by Cuti & Staton saw print in Charlton Spotlight #6 (2008) along with an unpublished Mike Mauser story. In 2011, E-Man appeared in War of the Independents, a crossover mini-series by Dave Ryan featuring more than 200 independent and creator-owned characters. In 2014, Charlton Neo announced that Cuti and Staton were collaborating on a new three-part E-Man story to be published in an upcoming issue of Charlton Action, a tribute comic fanzine celebrating Charlton's legacy. Staton stated that he was approaching the project as the final E-Man story. The story was finally published in three issues of a rebooted Charlton Arrow in 2017 and 2018. Fictional character biography E-Man is a sentient packet of energy thrown off by a nova. Traveling the galaxy it learned about life, how to duplicate the appearance of life, and about good and evil. Reaching Earth, it met exotic dancer/grad student Katrinka Colchnzski (who attended Xanadu University), also known as Nova Kane, and formed itself into a superhero dubbed E-Man, with a civilian identity dubbed "Alec Tronn" (electron). His emblem was the