Elflord #1 NightWynd Productions, Jun 1980, b&w.
R Elflord #1 cover The elves here have four fingers and long, long pointy ears. Dwarves in Medieval type clothes are fighting Prince Hawk, who wears leather. He shoves a sword into a dwarf sneaking up behind him and puts two swords into another's chest. He puts his sword through one and out the dwarf back (these dwarves look like men). The dwarves fall back on their siege on the castle Key. Hawk tells the freckled Windblade that they are running low on arrows, water, and food. Hawk will have a meeting of his captains but does not want Purebreeze at it. Windblade tells Capt. Fox, a fox like humanoid. Fox thinks they should pull back and fight a rear guard action until King Eagle shows up with reinforcements. Destroying a dam would destroy the dwarf camp. Hawk tells Purebreeze he will return just to collect a kiss from her. Windblade follows Hawk out on his suicide mission. Hawk chokes a guard to death with rope. For more gold from the dwarves, Fox has betrayed Hawk and is ready for him with dwarf men. Before Fox can shoot Hawk, Windblade throws a Chinese star at the gun and into the face of one of the guards. Windblade stabs into one's shoulder as Hawk fights the others, a smile on his face as he cuts into them from all directions. Hawk fights Fox, kicks him, deflects his sword as Fox sneaks up on him from behind, and says, "You fight like a woman!" He slices into Fox's back as Fox falls forward. On his horse, Black, Hawk rides into the army of dwarves, cutting them up. Windblade shoots an arrow into the back of one's neck who was about to kill Hawk. Windblade wants to come out to help but Hawk tells him to stay put. As Hawk is overpowered and almost killed, Black bites the dwarves. Hawk sets explosives at the center of the dam. Hawk's shirt is pulled off and his body is full of scars. He shoots a gun at the explosives. When the blast goes off, Windblade thinks Hawk was in it. He is crying when Hawk rejoins him. "Someday Hawk, you'll drive me crazy, sniff." Hawk tells Windblade they must go home. Purebreeze owes him a kiss. NEXT: Warlord Hawk Erickson begins his bloody, action packed rise to power, amid the dazzling elvin capital city!!!!
REVIEW: Lots of action, cold bloodedness, fight scenes with gore and death, stabbings...good characters and an imaginary setting that reeks of creativity, thrills, and adventure...with close friends being Hawk and Windblade. The dwarves look like ordinary men, only a bit shorter.
  Two issues of this have been recently auctioned on eBay. First one went over $100, second one is on sale until 2002/04/14. This book was limited to a 500 print run, and was available in Ottawa (Canada).
Barry wrote and drew this when he was 14 or 15 years old! He called Hawk by the name Hawlk cuz he wasn't sure how to spell it! The first 20 pages are Elflord, the second 8 pages are of The Guardian by Mike Burchill and Don Lanouette. The back inside cover was of a fighter drawn by Dave Cooper, then 11 years old!