Marvel Comics Presents
#56
[Direct]
([August] 1990)
Marvel,
1988 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.65 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- biweekly
- On-sale Date
- 1990-06-12
- 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:
Wolverine and the Incredible Hulk
Speedball; Werewolf by Night; Wolverine; Hulk; Stingray / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Steve Lightle (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Lightle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Wolverine; Hulk; Werewolf by Night; Speedball; Stingray; Diane Arliss-Newell
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Wraparound Cover
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[Contents, Credit & Indicia]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
On the Road with Wolverine and the Hulk, Part 3: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Hulk; Wolverine / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pain. Prison. We're all...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wolverine; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Mimic [as Wolverine]
- Synopsis
- Logan escapes from a small time jail just as Bruce Banner is being arrested. When the car he is riding in responds to the call for an escaped murderer, the Hulk watches helplessly as Wolverine is gunned down by the cops.
- Reprints
in Children of the Beast, Chapter III: Trail of Blood
Werewolf by Night / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Second night: the thick, intoxicating scent of blood hung over the forest.
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Werewolf by Night [Jack Russell]; Silver Dagger [Isaiah Curwin]; Braineaters
- Keywords
- occult
Family Matters, Chapter Four: Brotherly Love
Stingray / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There are strange sounds stirring in the sea tonight--
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Stingray [Walter Newell]; Tiger Shark; Diane Arliss-Newell
- Synopsis
- Stingray saves his wife from his psychopathic (and super powered) brother-in-law.
Any Number Can Play
Speedball / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Steve Ditko (plot); Jo Duffy (script)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Sam Grainger
- Colors
- Dave Sampson
- Letters
- Gary Fields
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Poor Robbie lives in Springdale, perhaps the only American city with an ordinance against costumed heroes or superbeings of any kind.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Speedball; Trio; Sextet; Quartet; Quintet; Duet
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Springdale
Next Issue...
Werewolf by Night; Wolverine; Hulk; Black Cat; Sub-Mariner / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Wolverine and the Incredible Hulk
Speedball; Werewolf by Night; Wolverine; Hulk; Stingray -
1.
[Contents, Credit & Indicia]
-
2.
On the Road with Wolverine and the Hulk, Part 3: Shootout at the Fantasy Factory
Hulk; Wolverine -
3.
Children of the Beast, Chapter III: Trail of Blood
Werewolf by Night -
4.
Family Matters, Chapter Four: Brotherly Love
Stingray -
5.
Any Number Can Play
Speedball -
6.
Next Issue...
Werewolf by Night; Wolverine; Hulk; Black Cat; Sub-Mariner
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Paul Lefebvre
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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