Marvel Team-Up #137 [Direct]
(January 1984)

Marvel, 1972 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-10-18
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Bob DeNatale (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Indicia title: Marvel Team-Up Starring Aunt May and Franklin Richards.
Copyright © 1983 by Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation.
Assistant Editor's Month.
This issue has variants:

Aunt May and Franklin Richards Vs. Galactus (Table of Contents)

Franklin Richards; May Parker / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ron Frenz
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Golden Oldie [Aunt May Parker]; Franklin Richards; Galactus; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Frenz and Esposito's names are in the margins of the original art at Heritage Auctions.

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Twinkle, Twinkle (Table of Contents: 1)

Franklin Richards; May Parker / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Mike Carlin
Pencils
Greg LaRocque
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
Bob Sharen
Letters
Joe Rosen
Genre
superhero; humor
Characters
Golden Oldie [Aunt May Parker]; Franklin Richards; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Nova [Frankie Raye]; Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Richards]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Mary Jane Watson; Nathan Lubensky; Arthur Chekov; Doughy Boy; Galactus (villain); Danny Fingeroth (cameo); Jim Shooter (cameo); Stan Lee (cameo)
Synopsis
Aunt May becomes the new Herald of Galactus. She and Franklin Richards seek out the universe's largest Twinkie.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Issue length tribute to the 1 page Hostess ads.

January 1984 (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Web-Zingers / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob DeNatale
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers Renee Tang and James Womack.
Bob DeNatale explains how excited he was to see this story in print.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Aunt May and Franklin Richards Vs. Galactus
    Franklin Richards; May Parker
  2. 1. Twinkle, Twinkle
    Franklin Richards; May Parker
  3. 2. January 1984
    Bullpen Bulletins
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Web-Zingers
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  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Eric Rom
  • Per Sandell
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