Time Masters #2
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Time Masters was written by Bob Wayne and Lewis Shiner — Shiner being a published science-fiction novelist whose genre credentials gave the series a literary sensibility unusual for a DC monthly. Art Thibert handled pencils and covers throughout, with José Marzan Jr. on inks and Robert Greenberger as editor. The project was conceived as a post-Crisis rehabilitation of the Silver Age Rip Hunter, placing him in a grounded thriller framework rather than the episodic time-safari adventures of the original 1961–65 series; Geoff Johns, in his introduction to the 2008 collected edition, grouped it alongside other subversive post-Crisis relaunches of the period. The full eight-issue run was eventually collected in a DC trade paperback released in February 2008.
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- Cover date March 1990; on-sale January 23, 1990. Story title: "No Time to Live."
- First appearance of Antonia ("Tony"), a computer hacker who joins the Time Masters after being caught snooping around Rip's estate — she prefers the gender-neutral nickname Tony, an unusually progressive character detail for 1990.
- Dan Hunter, Rip's cousin, is formally brought into the team in this issue as the operation's financier, arriving from Washington D.C. at Rip's invitation.
- Corky Baxter accidentally activates one of Rip's prototype single-use Time Packs and is instantly stranded in the Jurassic era, ending the issue on a cliffhanger with a tyrannosaur bearing down on him.
- Rip and Dan travel to Washington and discover their government contact Slater has been murdered; Rip recovers a 19th-century photograph showing Jeff Smith alongside Western DC heroes Bat Lash, Jonah Hex, and Scalphunter — a clue that the Illuminati conspiracy reaches deep into the past.
- Superman (Clark Kent) makes an appearance, one of several DC Universe guest stars woven through the series to situate the Time Masters within the post-Crisis DC continuity.
- Written by Bob Wayne and Lewis Shiner; art by Art Thibert (pencils and cover) and José Marzan Jr. (inks); edited by Robert Greenberger.
- The complete eight-issue series — including this issue — was collected in a DC trade paperback published February 13, 2008, which also incorporated material from Secret Origins #43.
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Reprinted in Time Masters #[nn] (2008)
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