QUANTUM LEAP
published by Innovation Comics

• #8 (December 1992)
$2.50, Color, 32 pages / 24 story
Writers: Bill Spangler (final page by Andy Mangels)
Artist: Mike Deodato Sr.
Letterer: Vickie Williams
Colorist: Andy Price
Editor: George Broderick Jr.
Cover artists: C.W. Taylor (signed)
Story title: "Getaway"
Notes: The final page of the issue is Sam's "leap" into the body of Stephanie Haywood, as written by Andy Mangels.

• #9 (February 1993)
$2.50, Color, 32 pages / 24 story
Writers: Andy Mangels (final page by Peter Quinones)
Artist: Mike Deodato Sr.
Letterer: Vickie Williams
Colorist: Scott Rockwell
Editor: George Broderick Jr.
Cover artists: C.W. Taylor (signed)
Story title: "Up Against a Stonewall"
Editorial: "Putting Right What Once Went Wrong. . ." by Andy Mangels, September 1992
Plot: Sam leaps into the body of Stephanie Haywood on June 22, 1969, on the day she's about to be released from prison for murder. She's made a name for herself for her stark photographs of women in prison, and a female art patron sets her up with an art showing. There, Stephanie meet leaders of the gay rights underground at the time, as well as a transvestite model. Everything is on a crash course for June 28, when the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. Can Sam make the right choices?
Notes: This story is the sequel to a the second season Quantum Leap TV episode "Goodnight, Dear Heart," in which Sam (having leapt into the body of a coroner) solves a murder that implicates lesbian Stephanie Haywood in the murder of her lover. The episode was not popular among gay audiences, and here, Mangels tried to rectify it with story specifically about the burgeoning gay rights movement of 1969. Despite an inside-cover essay that politically criticized the Quantum Leap show, Universal allowed the story to see print unchanged.
Historical Notes: While many characters are fictional in the story, Andy Warhol and Dennis Hopper make an appearance, and Judy Garland's death is mentioned. Lesbian activist Sashie Hyatt who appeared in the story is a late friend of Mangels who was at the original Stonewall Riots. The story is "Dedicated to Sashie Hyatt, who was at Stonewall, and to David Kaye. Both of them helped me begin my own journey."