([April] 1991)

Marvel, 1988 Series
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Volume:
1
Price:
1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.65 GBP
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
biweekly
Indicia Publisher:
Marvel Comics
Brand:
Marvel Comics
Barcode:
?
Editing:
Terry Kavanagh; Kelly Corvese (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Format:
biweekly; standard modern US format; saddle-stitched; color

Issue Notes

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Weapon X / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Inks:
Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Colors:
Barry Windsor-Smith

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Logan

Marvel Comics Presents (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Introductions, credits and indicia.


Weapon X; (chapter 3) (Table of Contents)

Weapon X / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Barry Windsor-Smith
Pencils:
Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks:
Barry Windsor-Smith
Colors:
Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters:
Jim Novak; Barry Windor-Smith

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Dr. Abraham Cornelius; Logan; Professor Thornton
Synopsis:
The Weapon X program tries to get the enraged Logan back under control. The Professor explains to Cornelius that Logan is a mutant and is slated to become the ultimate human weapon.
Reprints: show reprint note before migration

Death and the King's Horsemen; (The Bush of Ghosts part 8) (Table of Contents)

Shanna the She-Devil / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Gerard Jones
Pencils:
Paul Gulacy
Inks:
Gary Martin
Colors:
Steve Mattsson
Letters:
Jade Moede

Content Information

Genre:
jungle
Characters:
Guy Cross-Wallace; Mlima; Shanna
Reprints: show reprint note before migration

Charmed Lives! (Table of Contents)

Meggan and Shadow Cat / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Sue Flaxman
Pencils:
Gavin Curtis
Inks:
Chris Ivy
Colors:
P.J. Mungiole
Letters:
Jack Morelli [as John Morelli]

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Cypress (assassin); Excalibur [Captain Britain; Meggan; Nightcrawler; Phoenix [Rachel Summers]; Shadowcat]; Russian scientists [Mikhail [Mischa]; Yuri]
Synopsis:
Meggan and Kitty try to save a pair of Russian scientists from a Roxxon assassin.

Indexer Notes

Shadowcat is spelled Shadow Cat in the introduction and in the story logo.


Triumph (Table of Contents)

Doctor Doom / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Dave Cockrum
Pencils:
Dave Cockrum
Inks:
Joseph Adiletta
Colors:
John Wilcox
Letters:
Jack Morelli [as John Morelli]

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
the Avengers [the Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Sub-Mariner; Thor; the Vision; the Wasp; Wonder Man]; Daredevil; Doctor Doom; Dr. Strange; the Fantastic Four [Crystal; the Human Torch; the Invisible Woman; Mr. Fantastic; Ms. Marvel [Sharon Ventura]; the Thing]; Franklin Richards; the Silver Surfer; Spider-Man
Synopsis:
Franklin has a nightmare about a cosmic powered Doom.
Reprints:
  • in Marvel Comics Presenta: Zona M (Play Press, 1993 series) #29 (1995) [Italy]

Indexer Notes

All characters except Franklin Richards and the Invisible Woman appear only in a dream.


Marvel Readers Present (Table of Contents)

letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
various
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Letters on Marvel Comics Presents #68.


[untitled] (Table of Contents)

Doctor Doom; Meggan and Shadow Cat; Shanna the She-Devil / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Mark Badger (signed)
Inks:
Mark Badger (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero; jungle
Characters:
Doctor Doom; Excalibur [Meggan; Shadowcat]; Shanna

Indexer Notes

Outside back cover. Signed "AFTER MOSER". The art is similar to the "Summer" drawing done in 1895 by Austrian artist Koloman Moser.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Marvel Comics Presents
  2. 2. Weapon X; (chapter 3)
    Weapon X
  3. 3. Death and the King's Horsemen; (The Bush of Ghosts part 8)
    Shanna the She-Devil
  4. 4. Charmed Lives!
    Meggan and Shadow Cat
  5. 5. Triumph
    Doctor Doom
  6. 6. Marvel Readers Present
  7. 7. [untitled]
    Doctor Doom; Meggan and Shadow Cat; Shanna the She-Devil
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