What If...? #87 [Direct Edition]
(July 1996)

Marvel, 1989 Series
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Volume
2
Price
1.50 USD; 2.10 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1996-05-22
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
X-Men Group; Marvel Comics
Barcode
759606029204 08711
Editing
Kelly Corvese (editor); Matt Idelson (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This begins a new format for What If?, where instead of an alternate history, it presents a "darker" version of the Marvel Universe. Packet of Slammin' Strawberry-Kiwi Kool-Aid mix bound in.
This issue has variants:

Screams in the Night! (Table of Contents)

Sabretooth / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Frank Teran (signed)
Inks
Frank Teran (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Sabretooth; Jubilee
Reprints
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Cat and Mouse (Table of Contents: 1)

Sabretooth / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Abnett (Plot, Script); Andy Lanning (Plot)
Pencils
Frank Teran
Inks
Frank Teran
Colors
Christie Scheele
Letters
Steve Dutro
Genre
superhero
Characters
Sabretooth; X-Men [Jubilee; Beast; Bishop; White Queen [Emma Frost]; Iceman]
Synopsis
Sabretooth rampages through X-Mansion, killing X-Men, and Jubilee is forced to face him on her own.
Reprints

What?! (Table of Contents: 2)

What?! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers: Matthew Sideman, Angie Saunders, Pace Avery, Zach Savage

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Screams in the Night!
    Sabretooth
  2. 1. Cat and Mouse
    Sabretooth
  3. 2. What?!
    What?!
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