Comic Title: Time Masters #8
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1990
On Sale Date: July 24, 1990 Shipping Date July 24, 1990
Source: Previews, #17

Shipping Date July 24, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #181

Copyright Date August 7, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Time Loves a Hero"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Time Masters

Writer: Bob Wayne
Writer: Lewis Shiner
Penciller: Art Thibert
Inker: Jose F. Marzan, Jr.
Letterer: Robert M. Pinaha
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Time Masters TPB (2008)

Feature Character(s)

• Rip Hunter (last appearance in Time Masters #7; no further appearances)

Supporting Character(s)

• Bonnie Baxter (last appearance in Time Masters #7; no further appearances)
• Jeff Smith (last appearance in Time Masters #7; no further appearances)
• Cave Carson (last appearance in Time Masters #7; no further appearances)
• Antonia (last appearance in Time Masters #7; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Vandal Savage (last appearance in Time Masters #3; no further appearances)
• A roverpack (in July 2035; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Arion (last appearance in Time Masters #7; next appearance in Secret Origins #11)
• Kara (last appearance in Time Masters #7; next appearance in Secret Origins #11)

Other Character(s)

• The bear tribe (during the stone age; no further appearances)
• Vandar Adg (during the stone age; Vandal Savage's father; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Antonia's sister (no further appearances)
• Mohawk and members of the illuminati (in July 2035; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Vandal Savage (during the stone age; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Time Masters #6)

Comments:
Following this story Rip Hunter remains trapped in the stone age.

This story is continued from Time Masters #7.

Synopsis:
Rip Hunter has gone back in time to the stone age to stop Vandal Savage. He kills the man he thinks is Savage, only to discover that the man is Savage's father. He comes to the realization, that his efforts are pointless. He then witnesses the comet crash on Earth which makes Savage immortal. Rip remains trapped in the past.

Meanwhile, Bonnie takes a time sphere into the post-apocalyptic future. She meets members of the illuminati who are the keepers of knowledge. She sets up a program to teach survivors which will hopefully lead to the betterment of mankind.

Jeff and Cave return from Arion's time to the present where they reconcile their differences and continue time travel research.