The 'Nam Magazine #4 [Direct]
(November 1988)

Marvel, 1988 Series
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Volume
1
Price
2.00 USD; 0.50 GBP; 2.75 CAD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1988-07-14
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
A Marvel Magazine [plain text]
Editing
Don Daley (credited) (magazine editor); Pat Redding (credited) (magazine editor); Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor in chief)

Issue Notes

On sale date from Amazing Heroes #144.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The 'Nam / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Michael Golden
Inks
Michael Golden
Colors
?

Genre
war
Characters
Duong
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

The 'Nam / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Michael Golden
Inks
Michael Golden

Genre
war

Indexer Notes

Black and white reprint of the front cover, on the inside front cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Title, credits, table of contents and indicia.

Good Ol' Days (Table of Contents: 3)

The 'Nam / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Murray
Pencils
Michael Golden (page 1, 22); Wayne Vansant (2-21)
Inks
Bob McLeod (page 1, 22); Wayne Vansant (2-21)
Letters
Kurt Hathaway

First Line of Dialogue or Text
An LZ somewhere in the Iron Triangle...
Genre
war
Characters
Duong; Phan Boi Chau [Vietnamese Nationalist]
Synopsis
Duong, a Kit-Carson scout for the U.S. Army tells the story of how he has fought for his country and eventually left the communist forces and joined the Americans.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story contains elements of the true stories of three different Vietnamese soldiers.

NVA! (Table of Contents: 4)

The 'Nam / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Wayne Vansant (signed as Vansant [double line v and t])
Inks
Wayne Vansant (signed as Vansant [double line v and t])
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Although the North Vietnamese army was a regular, professional army, their uniforms and equipment had a "homemade" look by Western standards which reflected their guerilla heritage.
Genre
war
Synopsis
Information about the NVA.

'Nam Notes (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Synopsis
List of terms and acronyms specific to this issue.

In the Underground (Table of Contents: 6)

The 'Nam / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Murray
Pencils
Michael Golden
Inks
John Beatty
Letters
Phil Felix

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Somewhere near Chu Chi.
Genre
war
Characters
Ed Marks; Lt. Espino; Marty [Tunnel Fighter]; Mike Albergo; Verzyl
Synopsis
Ed's squad finds a tunnel in the jungle. After the tunnel specialists are brought in, one is injured and Ed Marks volunteers to go into the tunnel.
Reprints

The Tunnel Rat (Table of Contents: 7)

5th to the 1st / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Murray
Pencils
Michael Golden
Inks
Michael Golden
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
You ever notice how sounds kind of stay with you?
Genre
war
Characters
'Fats' Duff; SP5 Frank Verzyl
Synopsis
Frank Verzyl loses his sanity in a VC tunnel.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

This story is prose accompanied by drawings without dialogue balloons.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The 'Nam
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    The 'Nam
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
  4. 3. Good Ol' Days
    The 'Nam
  5. 4. NVA!
    The 'Nam
  6. 5. 'Nam Notes
  7. 6. In the Underground
    The 'Nam
  8. 7. The Tunnel Rat
    5th to the 1st
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Andrew Krieg
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Daniel Thingvold