Marvel Comics Presents
#39
[Direct]
(January 1990 [December 1989])
Marvel,
1988 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.65 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- biweekly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Terry Kavanagh (editor); Kelly Corvese (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Shadow Boxing!
Hercules Unbound; Spider-Man; Wolverine; Wonder Man / cover / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero; adventure; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Wolverine; Black Shadow; White Shadow; Wonder Man; Hercules; Spider-Man
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover
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Black Shadow! White Shadow! Part 2: The Shadows Strike!
Wolverine / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wolverine; Mai; H'siao; Ch'un; Black Shadow; White Shadow (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Mai meets Wolverine and helps him elude the Hong Kong police. As she introduces him to her allies, Black Shadow materializes and Wolverine attacks, freezing his arm up to the elbow in the monster's grip.
- Reprints
-
in X-Men (Semic S.A., 1992 series) #1 (décembre 1992) -
in Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2005) - in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2021)
-
Stardust Miseries Part 2: Tonight's the Night
Wonder Man / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Man; Enchantress; Johnny Carson; Ed McMahon; Beast (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Under the influence of his new lady love, Wondy begins work on a new movie where the director is mysteriously killed. Thinking that Simon is responsible, the police and the Beast confront him on the set of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
All In the Family Part 1: Mother Day
Hercules / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hercules; Arimathes; Skyppi; Recorder; Layana; Akooti; Malicon; Viperus; 2 More Assassins
- Synopsis
- Hercules and his son make quick work of space pirates, little knowing that Arimathes' mother is hatching a plot to replace her son with Skyppi the Skrull in order to destroy Herc and take over her son's throne.
- Reprints
With Liberty and Justice for All
Spider-Man / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man; Mary Jane Parker (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Spider-Man busts some kids trying to free animals who are slated for experimental testing at ESU.
- Reprints
in Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Shadow Boxing!
Hercules Unbound; Spider-Man; Wolverine; Wonder Man -
1.
Black Shadow! White Shadow! Part 2: The Shadows Strike!
Wolverine -
2.
Stardust Miseries Part 2: Tonight's the Night
Wonder Man -
3.
All In the Family Part 1: Mother Day
Hercules -
4.
With Liberty and Justice for All
Spider-Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Max Capp
- Dan Creel
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Stéphane PETIT
- Derek Reinhard
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