The Outsiders

"The Outsiders at Bat"

Cover Date April 1986
Issue #6
Pages 36
Type Cameo
Cover Price $0.75

Synopsis

Backup Feature: In a complete departure from reality, the story shifts to a cartoonish, dreamlike baseball match played between The Outsiders and the terrorist cell Kobra. The stadium stands break all dimensional and company boundaries to host an impossible crowd of spectators. On Page 26 (Page 3 of the backup feature) Enemy Ace (Hans von Hammer) is drawn directly into the stands in his traditional pilot gear. He watches the surreal baseball game alongside characters like Sgt. Rock, Jonah Hex, Captain Marvel, Swamp Thing, and even background cameos from Marvel Comics heroes like Thor and Spider-Man.

Collector Notes

One of the most tonally unusual Enemy Ace appearances in the archive: a purely comedic, non-continuity backup feature that exists entirely to break the fourth wall and celebrate DC's cross-era character roster. The inclusion of Marvel heroes in the stands makes this issue doubly rare as an artifact of the mid-1980s inter-company goodwill era.

Creative Team

Writer Mike W. Barr
Penciler Jim Engel
Inker Jim Engel
Letterer Albert DeGuzman