Marvel Two-in-One #87 [Direct]
(May 1982)

Marvel, 1974 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-01-26
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Lance Tooks (assistant editor); Jim Salicrup (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #8.
This issue has variants:

Murder on a Microworld! (Table of Contents)

Ant-Man; The Thing / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ron Wilson
Inks
Chic Stone
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I came to this blasted planet to save Ben Grimm!
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Thing; Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; Pearla; Zorak
Reprints

A Cracker Jack Story [Baseball] (Table of Contents: 1)

Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Neal Adams
Inks
Neal Adams
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
sports
Characters
Scottie

Indexer Notes

Comic ad for Cracker Jack snacks on the inside front cover.

Menace of the Micro-World! (Table of Contents: 2)

Ant-Man; The Thing / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Tom DeFalco (credited)
Pencils
Ron Wilson (credited)
Inks
Chic Stone (credited)
Colors
Christie Scheele (credited)
Letters
Rick Parker (credited); Michael Higgins (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
What's the matter, Thing?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Fantastic Four [the Thing; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic]; Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; Pearla; Zorak; Cassie Lang; Ruth (Scott Lang's sister); Carl (Scott Lang's brother-in-law)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Team-up of the Thing and Ant-Man.

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

The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Letters Page! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jason Potas, John Carlson, Richard Eisert, Brian Price, Charles David Haskell, Jeffrey Lowndes.

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

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
Jim Shooter (signed); ?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Characters
Dazzler; Dennis the Menace

A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [Grindal the Mentor] (Table of Contents: 5)

Dungeons & Dragons / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Willingham
Inks
Bill Willingham
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
sword and sorcery; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Grimslade; Grindal; Indel; Saren; Valerius

Indexer Notes

Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [The Red Dragon] and [The Woods of Oakthorn].

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Murder on a Microworld!
    Ant-Man; The Thing
  2. 1. A Cracker Jack Story [Baseball]
    Cracker Jack
  3. 2. Menace of the Micro-World!
    Ant-Man; The Thing
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Letters Page!
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins
  6. 5. A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! [Grindal the Mentor]
    Dungeons & Dragons
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Hunter Johnson
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore