(September 1986)

Marvel, 1985 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly except monthly July through November
On-sale Date
1986-05-06
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Star Comics; Marvel
Editing
Larry Hama (editor); Pat Redding (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (executive editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #94.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Spider-Ham / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Albelo ?
Inks
Joe Albelo ?
Colors
?

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
Characters
Spider-Ham; The Terrible Terriers [Wire; Boston; Skye; Bull]
Reprints

The Lost Temple of the Golden Retriever! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Ham / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Skeates
Pencils
Joe Albelo
Inks
Pierre Fournier
Colors
Julianna Ferriter
Letters
Janice Chiang

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
Characters
Spider-Ham [also appears as Peter Porker]; J. Jonah Jackal; J. Jeremiah Jackal; Bunsen Bunny; Upton Adam Stray; The Terrible Terriers [Boston; Bull; Wire; Airedale; Skye]; Winston Caribou
Synopsis
The bank-robbing Terrible Terriers escape while Spider-Ham stops a building from collapsing. Jonah gets a lead on a jungle story (with the Terriers listening in), so he takes Peter and the interns to the Temple of the Golden Retriever. The "god" in charge turns out to be former reporter Winston Caribou, now insane. The Terriers show up, Peter saves the day, Winston is captured, but the fate of The Terriers is unknown.
Reprints

Prince Kaymar, The Sub-Merchandizer!! (Table of Contents: 2)

Prince Kaymar, The Sub-Merchandizer / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Skeates
Pencils
Howard Bender
Inks
Howard Bender
Colors
Julianna Ferriter
Letters
Jack Morelli

Genre
humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero
Characters
Prince Kaymar; Markup; J. Hamilton Hampster
Synopsis
Forced from his throne, Kaymar is now a salesman, traveling with Markup, his pet saber-toothed tiger shark. J. Hamilton Hampster falls into the bay, where nuclear waste turns him into a man-thing. He wanders past Kaymar, but remains oblivious, so Kaymar sells to a passing frogman.
Reprints

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

Star Signals / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Pig Pen! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Pat Redding ?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by Jason Hall; Danny James; Mark Rodriguez; Brett Hudgins; Craig Siler; Bobby Russell; Devlin McCarthy; Maka Jones; Matt Horton; Adam Justice; Chris Cormier; Chris Smith.
Letter column titled "Pigpen" (one word, in quotes) in this issue.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Spider-Ham
  2. 1. The Lost Temple of the Golden Retriever!
    Spider-Ham
  3. 2. Prince Kaymar, The Sub-Merchandizer!!
    Prince Kaymar, The Sub-Merchandizer
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Star Signals
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    The Pig Pen!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Win Bent
  • Dwayne Best
  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Daniel Nauschuetz
  • Mark Q
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson