Machine Man #18 [Direct]
(December 1980)

Marvel, 1978 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1980
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Denny O'Neil (credited) (editor); Mark Gruenwald (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

Alpha Flight! (Table of Contents)

Machine Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rich Buckler (signed as BUCKLER)
Inks
Dave Simons (signed as Simons)
Colors
?
Letters
Rick Parker ?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight: Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]; Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski]
Machine Man [Aaron Stack]
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Aurora and Northstar's hair miscolored blonde instead of black.

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Alone Against Alpha Flight! (Table of Contents: 1)

Machine Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Tom DeFalco
Pencils
Steve Ditko
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
Nel Yomtov
Letters
Diana Albers
First Line of Dialogue or Text
We envy you, true believer!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Alpha Flight: Aurora [Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]; Northstar [Jean-Paul Beaubier]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski] (also in flashback)
Machine Man [Aaron Stack] (also in flashback); Agent K (introduction); Madame Menace [Sunset Bain] (villain); Senator Miles Brinkman (villain); Rollins (villain); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback); Gears Garvin; Peter Spaulding; Maggie Jones; Pamela Quinn; Eddie Harris; Santelli
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Alpha Flight appears between X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #140 and Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #83.

[Marvel Subscription Form] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

Iron Man vs. The Bank Robbers! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; Iron Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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

Machine Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Tom DeFalco
Letters
typeset

The Saga of Johnny West (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Alpha Flight!
    Machine Man
  2. 1. Alone Against Alpha Flight!
    Machine Man
  3. 2. [Marvel Subscription Form]
    Fantastic Four
  4. 3. Iron Man vs. The Bank Robbers!
    Hostess Fruit Pies; Iron Man
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Machine Mail
  6. 5. The Saga of Johnny West
This issue was modified by, among others
  • David Bruce
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Stangas
  • Richard Thomson
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore
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