Beauty and the Beast #1 [Direct]
(December 1984)

Marvel, 1984 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.50 GBP; 1.00 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-08-07
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Michael Higgins (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #53, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-08-28.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Beast; Dazzler / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Inks
Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as Bill Sienkiewicz)
Colors
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Beast [Hank McCoy]; Dazzler [Alison Blaire]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]
Reprints

Beauty and the Beast Part 1 (Table of Contents: 1)

Beast; Dazzler / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Ann Nocenti (credited)
Pencils
Don Perlin (credited)
Inks
Kim DeMulder (credited)
Colors
George Roussos (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
If it weren't for this room, I would forget entirely...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Beast [Hank McCoy] (also in flashback); Dazzler [Alison Blaire] (also in flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (villain) (also in flashback); Alexander Flynn (villain, first appearance, also in flashback); Kate (first appearance); Hugo Longride (villain, first appearance); Poltergeist; Max Rocker (first appearance); Wonder Man [Simon Williams]; Ralph Novak; Boris Karloff; Harrison Ford
Synopsis
Beast is on vacation from the Defenders and heads to Hollywood to hang out with Wonder Man. Dazzler, whose career was ruined, is attending a party when she is approached by Alexander Flynn who wants her to perform at an experimental underground theater. Tired of being out of the limelight, she agrees and signs a contract with Hugo Longride. Hank and Simon run into Dazzler at another party and are disgusted by the sleazy new company she is keeping. Dazzler's powers begin to erupt out of control and she abruptly disappears. Beast tracks her down and promises to take care of her.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Continued from Marvel Graphic Novel (Marvel, 1982 series) #12 (Dazzler: The Movie where she was outed as a mutant).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Beast; Dazzler
  2. 1. Beauty and the Beast Part 1
    Beast; Dazzler
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Richard Rider
  • Ramon Schenk