Popples #3 [Newsstand]
(April 1987)

Marvel, 1986 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
On-sale Date
1987-01-15
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Star Comics; Marvel
Barcode
071486020837 04
Editing
Sid Jacobson (editor)

Issue Notes

Copyright © 1987 Those Characters From Cleveland
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #108.
This issue has variants:

The Space Popples (Table of Contents)

Popples / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Costanza ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Characters
Popples [Party; Puzzle; Potato Chip]
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Space Popples (Table of Contents: 1)

Popples / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Tony Franco
Pencils
John Costanza
Inks
Roberta Edelman
Colors
Isabell Bidwell
Letters
Rick Parker
Genre
children
Characters
Popples [P. C. [Pretty Cool]; Party; Potato Chip; Puzzle; Putter; Pancake; Prize; Puffball]; Billy Wagner; Bonnie Wagner; Seth Bushwaller; Yuckle; Buckle; Clive
Synopsis
The Popples are mistaken for aliens and frighten off a group of real aliens with their super-friendly ways.

Free the Cap'n Mystery (Table of Contents: 2)

Spider-Man; Cap'n Crunch / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
children
Characters
Spider-Man; Cap'n Crunch; Sogmaster
Synopsis
Cap'n Crunch has been captured by the Sogmaster and only Spider-Man can save him.

Reach for a Star (Table of Contents: 3)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
various
Inks
various
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
adventure; children
Characters
Lion-O; He-Man; Spider-Ham; Wally the Wizard; Top Dog; Care Bears; Heathcliff; R2-D2

Indexer Notes

house ad for Marvel's Star Comics line

Double Trouble! (Table of Contents: 4)

Heathcliff / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Warren Kremer ?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
children; anthropomorphic-funny animals

Indexer Notes

house ad for Heathcliff (Marvel, 1985 series) and Heathcliff's Funhouse (Marvel, 1987 series)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Space Popples
    Popples
  2. 1. Space Popples
    Popples
  3. 2. Free the Cap'n Mystery
    Spider-Man; Cap'n Crunch
  4. 3. Reach for a Star
  5. 4. Double Trouble!
    Heathcliff
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  • Dwayne Best
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Mark Q
  • Jim Stangas
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