(January 2009)

Marvel, 2008 Series
< Previous Issue |
Price
2.99 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
2008-11-26
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Parental Advisory
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Publishing Inc.
Brand
Marvel [in horizontal box]
Barcode
759606063239 00511
Editing
Molly Lazer (credited) (editor); Bill Rosemann (credited) (editor); Tom Brevoort (credited) (executive editor); Lauren Sankovitch (credited) (assistant editor); Lauren Henry (credited) (assistant editor); Joe Quesada (credited) (editor in chief)

Issue Notes

Diamond order code: SEP082385

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

True Believers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mark Twain (credited)
Pencils
Paul Gulacy (credited) (signed as Gulacy) (cover artist)
Inks
Paul Gulacy (credited) (signed as Gulacy) (cover artist)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. --Mark Twain
Genre
superhero
Characters
Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Payback [Mavis Trent]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

True Believers / recap / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paul Gulacy
Inks
Paul Gulacy
Colors
Rain Beredo
Letters
typeset

Genre
superhero

Payback Is a Bitch Part 5: Burning Love (Table of Contents: 2)

True Believers / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates (credited)
Pencils
Paul Gulacy (credited)
Inks
Paul Gulacy (credited)
Colors
Rain Beredo (credited)
Letters
Dave Lanphear of ArtMonkeys (credited as Artmonkey's Dave Lanphear)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The intel Mavis gave us on the flight-plan was right on target.
Genre
superhero
Characters
True Believers [Payback [Mavis Trent]; Red Zone [Theo Bomba]; Headtrip [Talyn Roark]; Battalus [Ozzie Tanaka]]; SHIELD [Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Maria Hill; Chet Fleming]; Dr. Cornelius Worth; Hydra (flashback); Max Trent (flashback)
Synopsis
The True Believer kidnap Maria Hill to interrogate her about Anathema, which Max Trent had been preparing for SHIELD. Iron Man comes after the team but they narrowly escape him. Later, Mavis discovers her boyfriend Chet was a traitor to SHIELD and had disagreed with Max about Anathema and had him killed; Payback kills Chet and shares what she learned with SHIELD, but continues to operate the True Believers as an alternative source of information and accountability.
Keywords
Anathema; KX-3 laser bazooka; symbiote
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. --Mark Twain"]
    True Believers
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    True Believers
  3. 2. Payback Is a Bitch Part 5: Burning Love
    True Believers
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Fred Beels
  • Mark Boyer
  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Andrew Krieg
  • Ramon Schenk