What If?
#30
[Newsstand]
(December 1981)
Marvel,
1977 Series
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [various positions]
- Barcode
- 0714860268612
- Editing
- Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
What If Spider-Man's Clone Lived?
Spider-Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Layton (signed as
BOB LAYTON) - Inks
- Bob Layton (signed as BOB LAYTON)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Michael Higgins ?; typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Inhumans: Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Gorgon; Karnak; Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]
Spider-Man [Peter Parker] [Earth-81141] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
in 
in ![Cover Thumbnail for What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #30 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/30/w200/30606.jpg?8432634483829245619)
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What If...Spider-Man's Clone Had Survived?
Spider-Man; What If? / comic story / 31 pages
- Script
- Bill Flanagan (credited)
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed) (breakdowns); Jim Mooney (credited) (finished art); Pablo Marcos (credited) (finished art)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (credited) (pages 1-14); Pablo Marcos (credited) (pages 15-39)
- Colors
- George Roussos (credited as Roussos)
- Letters
- Rick Parker (credited as Parker)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am the Watcher...and it is my solemn duty to obsereve all the myraid events that define the reality of Earth...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Watcher [Uatu]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Spider-Man Clone; Gwen Stacy Clone; Miles Warren; Ned Leeds; May Parker; Anna Watson; Betty Brant; Gloria Grant; Flash Thompson; Kingpin [Wilson Fisk]
- Universe
- Marvel : Earth-81141
- Synopsis
- The Spider Clone survived (years before they brought him back).
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Based on Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #148-149. Art corrections and page numbers added 2005 by Steven Tice.
Moving Day!
Untold Tales of the Marvel Universe! / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Peter Gillis (credited)
- Pencils
- Ron Wilson (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Wein)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited as Orz)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am the Watcher, and though I sometimes relate events from realities that diverge from your own...
- Feature Logo
Untold Tales of the Marvel Universe!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Eternals: Makkari; Sprite
The Inhumans: Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Gorgon; Karnak; Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]
Andvari; Tethys (first appearance) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- How the Inhumans moved the Great Refuge to the Himalayas.
- Reprints
-
in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #5 -
in Capitão América (Editora Abril, 1979 series) #97 (19/06/1987) [História original: Moving Day!] - in Marvel Masterworks: The Inhumans (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 ([April] 2010)
- in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #3 (2019)
- in The Eternals: The Complete Saga Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
- in Eternals: The Dreaming Celestial Saga (Marvel, 2020 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Continued from last issue.
The Phoomie Goonies
Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]
Indexer Notes
Ad for Hostess Twinkies. Credits added 2005 by Steven Tice.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
What If Spider-Man's Clone Lived?
Spider-Man -
1.
What If...Spider-Man's Clone Had Survived?
Spider-Man; What If? -
2.
Moving Day!
Untold Tales of the Marvel Universe! -
3.
The Phoomie Goonies
Hostess Twinkies
This issue was modified by, among others
- ge.org.e
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Gregory Fischer
- Merlin Haas
- Katy Hayhurst
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Stéphane PETIT
- Richard Rider
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Steven Tice
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