(October 1988)

Marvel, 1987 Series
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Volume
2
Price
1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-weekly [bi-monthly]
On-sale Date
1988-08-25
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Epic Comics Inc.
Brand
Epic Comics
Barcode
024885230123 12
Editing
Margaret Clark (editor); Steve Buccellato (assistant editor); Archie Goodwin (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Indicia does read "Published bi-weekly" but this is a typo and should have been bi-monthly. The indicia also has the price as $1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD but the price didn't increase until issue 8. These errors are discussed in the letters page in issue #9.
Full indicia publisher: Epic Comics, Inc. A New World Company
On sale date from Amazing Heroes #147.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Alien Legion / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bret Blevins (signed as BB)
Inks
Frank Cirocco (signed as FC)
Colors
Frank Cirocco (signed as FC)
Genre
science fiction
Cover Thumbnail for Alien Legion (Marvel, 1987 series) #7
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Archie Goodwin
Pencils
Archie Goodwin
Inks
Archie Goodwin
Synopsis
Archie Goodwin cartoon introducing the issue.

The Bite (Table of Contents: 2)

Alien Legion / comic story / 28 pages (report information)

Script
Chuck Dixon; Carl Potts (producer)
Pencils
Larry Stroman
Inks
Mark Farmer
Colors
John Wellington
Letters
Phil Felix
Genre
science fiction
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Space Script / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Carl Potts ?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Tarheel Dave, Lt. Tristan Hamilton and Shannon MacDonald.

"Something Serious" (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Epic-Grams / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Alien Legion / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Larry Stroman
Inks
Larry Stroman
Colors
?
Genre
science fiction

Indexer Notes

On the back cover.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Alien Legion
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
  3. 2. The Bite
    Alien Legion
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Space Script
  5. 4. "Something Serious"
    Epic-Grams
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Alien Legion
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  • Michael Hoskin
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Philip Rutledge
  • Richard Thomson
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