Marvel Team-Up #88 [Direct]
(December 1979)

Marvel, 1972 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1979-09-25
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Al Milgrom (editor); Jo Duffy (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Copyright ©1979 by Marvel Comics Group, a Division of Cadence Industries Corporation.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Invisible Girl; Spider-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rich Buckler
Inks
Rich Buckler ?; Al Milgrom ?
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Your power to make things invisible can't save you now, lady!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Invisible Girl [Sue Richards]; Franklin Richards
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inks credit from Buckler via Facebook. Al Milgrom from Milgrom through the Error Report.

A Child Is Waiting (Table of Contents: 1)

Invisible Girl; Spider-Man / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Sal Buscema (breakdowns); Eduardo Barreto (finished art)
Inks
Eduardo Barreto
Colors
Bob Sharen
Letters
John Costanza

Job Number
LG584
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ah, the things we do for money...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Invisible Girl [Sue Richards]; Franklin Richards; Alicia Masters; Captain Jean DeWolff; Henry Pym [Yellowjacket]; Janet Van Dyne [Wasp]; Maggia (villains); Spencer Jarret (villain); Jomo (villain); Daisy (villain); Morgan (villain)
Reprints

December 1979 (Table of Contents: 2)

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
Stan Lee; ?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Micronauts [Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette [Princess Mari]; Prince Acroyear]

Indexer Notes

Stan Lee asks for feedback regarding his Stan's Soapbox column.

Captain Marvel vs. Professor Sneer (Table of Contents: 3)

Captain Marvel; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Esposito
Inks
Mike Esposito ?
Colors
?
Letters
John Costanza ?; Jim Novak ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Propelled by a glittering beam of photons,
Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Professor Sneer
Synopsis
Captain Marvel prevents Professor Sneer from extinguishing the Sun.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Comic strip ad for Hostess Twinkies from ITT Continental Baking Company. Mike Esposito credit from auction of original art at Heritage Auction Galleries in January 2002.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Your power to make things invisible can't save you now, lady!"]
    Invisible Girl; Spider-Man
  2. 1. A Child Is Waiting
    Invisible Girl; Spider-Man
  3. 2. December 1979
    Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox
  4. 3. Captain Marvel vs. Professor Sneer
    Captain Marvel; Hostess Twinkies
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  • ge.org.e
  • Katie
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Eric Rom
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore