Marvel Spotlight #1 [Direct]
(July 1979)

Marvel, 1979 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Roger Stern (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

The Stars My Battleground! (Table of Contents)

Captain Marvel / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jeff Aclin (signed as J. Achlin)
Inks
Bob McLeod (signed as B. McLeod)
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]
Reprints
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The Saturn Storm! (Table of Contents: 1)

Captain Marvel / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Pat Broderick (credited)
Inks
Bruce Patterson (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited as Gaff); Glynis Oliver (credited as Wein)
Letters
Gaspar Saladino (page one); Elaine Heinl (credited as E. Heinl)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
En route to the ringed planet's largest moon...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Drax the Destroyer; Rick Jones; Gertie; Mentor; Eros; Dionysius; Elysius; Saturnians (introduction); I.S.A.A.C.; Stellarax; Chaos; Gaea; Isaac-Prime
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Indexer Notes

Continued from Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #62.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Spotlight Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Kurt Busiek, Scott McLeod.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Stars My Battleground!
    Captain Marvel
  2. 1. The Saturn Storm!
    Captain Marvel
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Spotlight Mail
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