Care Bears #8 [Direct]
(January 1987)

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
On-sale Date
1986-09-23
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Star Comics; Marvel
Editing
Sid Jacobson (editor); Laura Hitchcock (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

all Care Bears material Copyright © 1986 Those Characters from Cleveland
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #102.
This issue has variants:

The Mystery of the Disappearing Town (Table of Contents)

Care Bears / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
children; fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Birthday Bear; Cheer Bear
Reprints
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The Disappearing Town (Table of Contents: 1)

Care Bears / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Kay
Pencils
Howie Post
Inks
Roberta Edelman
Colors
Isabell Bidwell
Letters
Rick Parker
Genre
children; fantasy-supernatural; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Characters
Cheer Bear; Grumpy Bear; Funshine Bear; Bedtime Bear; Tenderheart Bear; Tugs
Synopsis
The Care Bears visit the town of Woe, where things keep disappearing. They discover that a defective robot is stealing things and they have to figure out how to get them back.
Keywords
robots

I'm a Travelin' Man (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Tom DeFalco
Pencils
? (illustrations)
Inks
? (illustrations)
Colors
? (illustrations)
Letters
typeset
Genre
non-fiction

Indexer Notes

news about upcoming comics and comic conventions; includes cover art from Inhumanoids (Marvel, 1987 series) #1 and Defenders of the Earth (Marvel, 1987 series) #1

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

Bear Facts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Laura Hitchcock ?
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Colors
? (illustration)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

letters submitted by Suh-Hen Yang; Braiza Hardin; Robbie McDonald; Lora Wilbur; Cathy Rivera; Ava Toeroek

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Mystery of the Disappearing Town
    Care Bears
  2. 1. The Disappearing Town
    Care Bears
  3. 2. I'm a Travelin' Man
    Star Signals
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bear Facts
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  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mark Q
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Richard Thomson
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