Quasar
#5
[Newsstand]
(Mid-December 1989)
Marvel,
1989 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1989
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Barcode
- 071486011026 14
- Editing
- Howard Mackie (credited) (editor); Tom DeFalco (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
No letters column this issue.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Absorbing Man Goes Cosmic!
Quasar / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Paul Ryan (signed as Ryan)
- Inks
- Danny Bulanadi (signed as Bulanadi)
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Absorbing Man [Crusher Creel]; Quasar [Wendell Vaughn]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Covers sports the Acts of Vengeance! cross-over banner.
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The Absorption Principle
Quasar / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mark Gruenwald (credited)
- Pencils
- Paul Ryan (credited)
- Inks
- Danny Bulanadi (credited)
- Colors
- Paul Becton (credited)
- Letters
- Janice Chiang (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Eight hours ago, a horde of robots attacked the floating headquarters...
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Absorbing Man [Crusher Creel]; Kayla Ballantine; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Eon; Shintaro Kuramoto (first appearance); Loki; Michael O'Brien; Quasar [Wendell Vaughn]; Stingray [Walter Newell]; Ken Tanaka (first appearance); Gilbert Vaughn
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Re-capturing villains during the Acts of Vengeance, Quasar battles an escaped Absorbing Man who manages to absorb the properties of the Quantum-Bands. Quasar overloads him with energy to keep him from wreaking havoc.
- Reprints
-
in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #38 ([1993]) -
in Acts of Vengeance Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) ([March 2011]) - in Quasar Classic (Marvel, 2012 series) #1 (2012)
- in Acts of Vengeance: Avengers (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Acts of Vengeance crossover.
For a complete checklist of the Acts of Vengeance issues, please see the cover notes for the story Prologue in Avengers Spotlight (Marvel, 1989 series) #26.
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