Marvel Comics Presents
#50
[Direct]
(May 1990)
Marvel,
1988 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.65 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-weekly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics
- Editing
- Terry Kavanagh (editor); Kelly Corvese (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Comet Man; Silver Surfer; Spider-Man; Captain Ultra; Wolverine / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Erik Larsen (signed as Erik Larsen)
- Inks
- Terry Austin (signed as Terry Austin)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- El Águila; American Eagle; Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; Aquarian [Wundarr]; Arabian Knight [Abdul Qamar]; Avalanche [Dominikos Petrakis]; Black Panther [T'Challa]; Blob [Frederick Dukes]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Britain [Brian Braddock]; Captain Ultra [Griffin Gogol]; Clea; Cloak [Tyrone Johnson]; Coldblood; Colossus [Piotr Rasputin]; Comet Man [Stephen Beckley]; Cyclops [Scott Summers]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Destiny; Devil-Slayer; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Gladiator [Kallark]; Havok [Alex Summers]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker]; Her; Hercules; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Invisible Woman [Susan Storm Richards]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Misty Knight; Leir; Lockheed; Longshot; Willie Lumpkin; Machine Man; Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Meggan; Mirage [Dani Moonstar]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Mystique [Raven Darkhölme]; Namor the Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Namorita; Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; Nomad [Jack Monroe]; Nova [Richard Rider]; Overmind; Paladin; Phoenix [Rachel Grey Summers]; Kitty Pryde; Puma [Thomas Fireheart]; Pyro [St. John Allerdyce]; Quasar [Wendell Vaughn]; Red Wolf [William Talltrees]; Shamrock; Shang-Chi; Shanna the She-Devil; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; Shooting Star; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Siryn [Theresa Cassidy]; Slag; Speedball [Robbie Baldwin]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Starfox [Eros]; Storm [Ororo Munroe]; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Sunfire [Shiro Yoshida]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Thor; Triton; U.S.Agent [Johnny Walker]; Union Jack [Joseph Chapman]; Ursa Major; Vision; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; The Watcher [Uatu]; Widget; Colleen Wing; Wolfsbane [Rahne Sinclair]; Wheels Wolinski; Wolverine [Logan]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]; Damage Control
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
This is a true wraparound cover (the right side of the front cover connects to the left side of the back cover); The cover includes many of the characters who have appeared in Marvel Comics Presents for the first fifty issues. Some character information (the alter ego of a few characters) was obtained from marvel.fandom.com.
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Life's End Part III: Breaking Point
Spider-Man; Wolverine / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lemme off the wall-crawler. I owe him for what he did to my brother.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bloodlust; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Critical Mass; Mary Marvel [Mary Batson]; Mary Jane Parker; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Whiplash [Leeann Foreman]; Wolverine [Logan]
- Synopsis
- Wolverine and Spider-Man save a father and daughter from evil mutants.
- Reprints
-
in Die Spinne Comic - Album (Condor, 1979 series) #43 -
in The Amazing Spider-Man (TM-Semic, 1990 series) #6/1991 ([czerwiec] 1991) -
in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #6/1991 ([juli] 1991) [page 1 removed] -
in Wolverine (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #54 (Luglio 1994) -
in Wolverine vs. Spider-Man (Marvel, 1995 series) (March 1995) - in Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2005)
- in Spider-Man by David Michelinie and Erik Larsen Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
- in Wolverine Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
The pair that the heroes save are implied to be Cap and Mary Marvel; There is an unnamed villain that looks like a prototype of the Savage Dragon.
A Family Affair Part 1
Comet Man / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Mumy; Miguel Ferrer
- Pencils
- Kelley Jones
- Inks
- Gerry Talaoc
- Colors
- John Wilcox
- Letters
- Agustin Más
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Comet Man [Stephen Beckley]; Max; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]
Indexer Notes
The African American man that appears at the end of this story is depicted as white next issue. Some character information was obtained from marvel.fandom.com.
I Just Flew in from Poughkeepsie (And Boy Are My Arms Tired)
Captain Ultra / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Ultra [Griffin Gogol]; Dr. Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Hellcat [Patsy Walker] (cameo); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo); Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo); Invisible Woman [Susan Storm Richards] (cameo); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo); Nighthawk (cameo); Doc Samson; The Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo); Valkyrie [Brunnhilde] (cameo); Wizard [Bentley Wittman] (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Many of the background characters for this story are caricatures of old time celebrities.
You Can't Go Home Again
Silver Surfer / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This certainly is an odd sector of space. I wonder if...
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Rava; The Marauder
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Comet Man; Silver Surfer; Spider-Man; Captain Ultra; Wolverine -
1.
Life's End Part III: Breaking Point
Spider-Man; Wolverine -
2.
A Family Affair Part 1
Comet Man -
3.
I Just Flew in from Poughkeepsie (And Boy Are My Arms Tired)
Captain Ultra -
4.
You Can't Go Home Again
Silver Surfer
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