Marvel Team-Up #89 [Direct]
(January 1980)

Marvel, 1972 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
1
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1979-10-23
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:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Shoot Out Over Center Ring! (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Rich Buckler (signed as Buckler)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (signed as Rubinstein)
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Cutthroat
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 1972 series) #89 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Marvel Team-Up (1972 series) #89 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Marvel Team-Up (1972 series) #89 [British]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

Shoot Out Over Center Ring! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Chris Claremont
Pencils
Michael Netzer (credited as Michael Nasser) (pages 1-13); Rich Buckler (pages 14-17)
Inks
Joe Rubinstein (credited as Josef Rubinstein)
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Clem Robins
Job Number
LF613
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Ohhhhh, I ache.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Amanda Sefton; Arcade (villain); Miss Locke (villain); Amos Jardine (villain); Cutthroat (first appearance; villain); Colossus (cameo flashback); Betsy Wilford (cameo flashback)
Synopsis
Amos fires Arcade and hires Cutthroat to take down Spider-Man but Nightcrawler helps Spider-Man take down the rookie assassin.
Reprints

January 1980 (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

The Icemaster Cometh (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; Human Torch / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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

Web-Zingers / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (replies)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Meredith Robbins, Danny M. Davids, Rich Roder, and Frederick Scoblete. Letters page replies by Chris Claremont.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Shoot Out Over Center Ring!
    Nightcrawler; Spider-Man
  2. 1. Shoot Out Over Center Ring!
    Nightcrawler; Spider-Man
  3. 2. January 1980
    Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox
  4. 3. The Icemaster Cometh
    Hostess Fruit Pies; Human Torch
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Web-Zingers
This issue was modified by, among others
  • ge.org.e
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Eric Rom
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Terry Staats
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.