Marvel Comics Presents
#3
[Direct]
(Late September 1988)
Marvel,
1988 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-weekly
- On-sale Date
- 1988-06-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Terry Kavanagh (editor); Mike Rockwitz (credited as Michael Rockwitz) (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On sale date from Amazing Heroes #140.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Man-Thing; Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi; The Thing; Wolverine / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- John Romita Jr. (signed as JR. JR)
- Inks
- Bob Wiacek (signed as
Wiacek) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense; martial arts; superhero
- Characters
- Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Shang-Chi; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Tyger Tiger [Jessán Hoan]; Wolverine [Logan]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005) - in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (2009)
-
in Marvel Série I (Levoir, 2012 series) #9 - Wolverine - Madripoor - in Doctor Strange: Lords of Fear (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017) [back cover only]
- in Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #3 (2021)
-
- Keywords
- kung fu; monsters
Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover.
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Save the Tiger Part 3: The Gals
Wolverine / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- John Buscema
- Inks
- Klaus Janson
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Madripoor Lowtown. Never fails to amaze me, the people you run into...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Reavers: Bonebreaker (cameo flashback); Pretty Boy (cameo flashback); Skullbuster (cameo flashback)
X-Men: Colossus [Piotr Rasputin] (cameo flashback); Storm [Ororo Munroe] (cameo flashback)
Razor-Fist [Douglas Scott]; Roma (cameo flashback); Sapphire Styx; Tyger Tiger [Jessán Hoan] (also in flashback as Jessan Hoan); Wolverine [Logan] (also in flashback) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Wolverine learns how Jessan Hoan ended up in Madripoor. Sapphire and Razorfist knock Wolverine out to deliver him to Roche.
- Reprints
-
in Un Récit Complet Marvel (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #28 - Les Mystères de Madripoor ([novembre] 1990) - in Wolverine: Save the Tiger (Marvel, 1992 series) #1 (May 1992)
- in Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 (2009)
- in Marvel Série I (Levoir, 2012 series) #9 - Wolverine - Madripoor
- in Wolverine Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 - Madripoor Nights (2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Flashback sequence in this story happened in The Uncanny X-Men (Marvel, 1981 series) #229.
Elements of Terror Part 3: Ritual and Belief
Man-Thing / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Colonel Jody Choate; Debbi Choate; Mickey Ditillio; Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Senator Miller; Laurence Railsback; Lloyd Zahner; Nurse Goren
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters; occult
in Crossing Lines Part 3: Fish
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- martial arts; superhero
- Characters
- Clive Reston; Shang-Chi; Black Jack Tarr
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Shang-Chi travels to Hong Kong hunting for Leiko but ends up finding Tarr and Reston who want him to help them fight terrorists. Her captors send Shang-Chi Leiko's severed hand in a box.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- kung fu
The Measure of a Man!
The Thing / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Captain [Steve Rogers] (cameo flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (cameo flashback); The Fear Eater; Galactus [Galan] (cameo flashback); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo flashback); Invisible Woman [Susan Storm Richards] (cameo flashback); Alicia Masters (cameo flashback); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo flashback); Namor the Sub-Mariner [Namor] (cameo flashback); Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd] (cameo flashback); The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Timmy
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Fear Eater tries to feed off of The Thing.
- Reprints
in 
in In Two Weeks...
Man-Thing; Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi; Thor; Wolverine / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense; martial arts; superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Razor-Fist [Douglas Scott]; Shang-Chi; Thor [Thor Odinson]; Wolverine [Logan]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Keywords
- kung fu; monsters
Indexer Notes
Presents cover art for next issue.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Man-Thing; Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi; The Thing; Wolverine -
1.
Marvel Comics Presents
-
2.
Save the Tiger Part 3: The Gals
Wolverine -
3.
Elements of Terror Part 3: Ritual and Belief
Man-Thing -
4.
Crossing Lines Part 3: Fish
Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi -
5.
The Measure of a Man!
The Thing -
6.
In Two Weeks...
Man-Thing; Master of Kung Fu / Shang-Chi; Thor; Wolverine
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Max Capp
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Steve Jenner
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike Verhart
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