Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham
#4
[Direct]
(November 1985)
Marvel,
1985 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.65 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Star Comics; Marvel
- Editing
- Larry Hama (editor); Pat Redding (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (executive editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Spider-Ham / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Albelo (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Albelo (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Ham; J. Jeremiah Jackal; Bunsen Bunny; Upton Adam Stray
- Reprints
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20,000-to-One Under the Sea!
Spider-Ham / comic story / 17 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Ham; J. Jonah Jackal; J. Jeremiah Jackal; Bunsen Bunny; Upton Adam Stray; Cynthia Snipe; Captain Reno (villain); Loreli Lemur (villain)
- Synopsis
- Spider-Ham captures some wharf rats, and realizes that all the yachts are deserted. Peter, Jonah, and the three interns discover that the yachts are now for sale because their owners have been hypnotized by Loreli Lemur. Spider-Ham battles Loreli, Capt. Reno loses control of his hydraulic boots, and Spider-Ham captures the criminals.
- Reprints
Big Snack Attack
Croctor Strange, Master of the Misfit Arts / comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
- Characters
- Croctor Strange; The Rancid One; The Breaded Boremamuu (villain)
- Synopsis
- Croctor Strange fails to save a beautiful duckling from The Breaded Boremamuu, but The Rancid One is more successful.
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
Star Signals / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Tom DeFalco; ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- News about Star Comics titles including the upcoming Care Bears comic. Page also includes a checklist of Marvel Comics cover-dated November 1985.
[no title indexed]
The Pig Pen! / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Steve Mellor (illustration)
- Inks
- Steve Mellor (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear editors, I would like to know...
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Corey D. Cousineau; T.E. Pouncey; Doug Zawisza; Tom Warren; David Riddle; Joe Collins; Jason Natale; Chris Nash; Patrick Kelly; Tom Newmann.
Includes "X-Bugs" illustration from Spider-Ham #2.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Spider-Ham -
1.
20,000-to-One Under the Sea!
Spider-Ham -
2.
Big Snack Attack
Croctor Strange, Master of the Misfit Arts -
3.
[no title indexed]
Star Signals -
4.
["Dear editors, I would like to know..."]
The Pig Pen!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Win Bent
- Dwayne Best
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Daniel Nauschuetz
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
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