It's Marvel Age #129, and the House of Ideas pits two teams against each other once again in the new X-Men / Avengers crossover that wound its way through several titles for a five-issue epic. This issue also includes a promotional poster focused on this event. The poster would remain an occasional feature for the rest of Marvel Age's run, pushing the cover price of the issue up to $1.25. 

Also in this issue, Marvel celebrates Conan's cross-media conquests and introduces Marvel-based Role-Playing Games. And Epic's Heavy Hitters line unveils its second wave of titles, including Sachs & Violens, Lapdog / Grimed, Brats Bizarre, Terrarists, Binary Deep, Dragon Lines: The Way of the Warrior, Warman, and the Heavy Hitters Annual. These titles pull heavily from Marvel UK content as well as the pen of Chuck Dixon – not to mention the Future Imperfect team of writer Peter David and artist George Pérez. 

Marvel Age #129

Price: $1.25 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: August 17, 1993

Cover date: October 1993 

Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Marvel/Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Jon-Peter Kelly: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Jim Hoston: Designers

• Adam Hughes: Front cover artist

• George Pérez: Back cover photographer

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Liam Sharp, Mark Farmer: X-Men / Avengers poster artists

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Karl Bollers, Tom Brevoort, Lynaire Brust, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Michael Kraiger, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Carlos Lopez, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matthew Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Lisa Patrick, Lia Pelosi, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Kevin Somers, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Delayne Hawkins, Scott Koblish, Yancey Labat, Frank Marquart: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel, Flo Steinberg: Proofreaders

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Jon Babcock, Sergio Cariello, Susan Crespi, Loretta Krol, Ed Lazellari, Matt Maley, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• John Bligh, Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowski, Jennifer O'Donnell, Thomas Velasquez, and Caroline Wells: Mechanical Artists

• Millie Shuriff: Accounting 

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Kevin Wiechmann: Mac Coordinator 

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Melisa Danon, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Holly Joyner, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Jim Krueger, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Matt Ragone: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative 

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Gary Guzzo: Publicity Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Heidi Balaban, Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Acolyte 

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• Daredevil #319 - 325 will feature the storyline "Fall from Grace."

• Marvel will be offering several titles in editions both with and without fancy foil enhanced covers to see if there's a demand for non-enhanced versions. 

• Marvel will offer a scholarship to a student at the Kubert School. 

• Four new posters are coming soon. 

• Nova will return soon in a new series written by Fabian Nicieza with art by Chris Marrinan. 

• Marvel UK titles Death Duty, 'Roidrage, and Bloodrush will run the interwoven storyline "Red Mist 2020." 

Pages 4 - 6

Article: "Conan, Multi-Media Conqueror," by Richard Ashford

Page 7

Epicenter, by Paula Foye

Pages 8 - 10

Article: "Role-Playing 101," by Jeff Grubb

Page 11

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 12 - 15

Article: "Heavy Hitters" 

Pages 16 - 17

Article: "Biker Mice from Mars," by Terry Hernon

Pages 18 - 19

Mark's Remarks

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "Ramifications: Bloodies - The Avengers / X-Men Crossover," by Tom Russo

Page 23

Hero Caps 

Page 24 

Hembeck's Page

Pages 25 - 27

Hot Sheet, by Jerry A. Novick 

Pages 28 - 30

Letters column: "Curses! Foiled Again!" 

Page 30 

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker 

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

September calendar 

 

It's a writer's world in Marvel Age #128, with former Marvel editor turned full-time writer Larry Hama taking on both the cult-favorite Mort the Dead Teenager and the monthly Wolverine series, while the late, great Peter David goes Epic with the miniseries Sachs & Violens. 

Marvel Age also continues to spotlight licensing deals – and this issue, it's all about Marvel apparel, including shirts, hats, and neckties. But that's not all, because fans could also get the Marvel Kids' Pizza Pack at participating Pizza Hut locations. 

Also this issue, readers learned the details on the Fantastic Four movie from Roger Corman's "low-budget movie factory," as the article calls it. The article really emphasizes that despite the breakneck filming schedule and minuscule budget, there's a lot to love about this movie. 

Marvel Age #128

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: July 20, 1993

Cover date: September 1993 

Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Marvel/Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Jim Hoston: Designers

• Mark Texeira: Front cover artist

• Marti Wilkerson: Back cover photographer

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Karl Bollers, Tom Brevoort, Lynaire Brust, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Michael Kraiger, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Carlos Lopez, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matthew Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Kevin Somers, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel, Flo Steinberg: Proofreaders

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Loretta Krol, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• John Bligh, Steve Bunche, Sergio Cariello, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowski, Edward Murr, and Thomas Velasquez: Mechanical Artists

• Millie Shuriff: Accounting 

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Kevin Wiechmann: Mac Coordinator 

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Melisa Danon, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Holly Joyner, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Jim Krueger, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Matt Ragone: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative 

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Gary Guzzo: Publicity Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Heidi Balaban, Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Dapper Senior Editor 

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• Transformers: Generation 2 is coming soon from writer Simon Furman and artist Derek Yanigher. 

• Marvel fans can call the new Mighty Marvel Fan Phone for the latest hot tips on what's new from the House of Ideas. 

• New Marvel Masterworks coming soon collecting Uncanny X-Men #111 - 120, Fantastic Four #41 - 50 and Annual #3, Journey into Mystery #101 - 110, and Avengers #21 - 30. 

• The upcoming comic Break the Chain, by writer/artist Kyle Baker, comes polybagged with a cassette of music by rapper KRS-1. 

• Spider Woman gets a new miniseries in September by writer Roy Thomas and penciller John Czop. 

• Coming soon, it's Mort the Dead Teenager, written by Larry Hama with art by Gary Hallgren. 

Pages 4 - 6

Article: "Tripping the Flight Fantastic," by Robert Sodaro

Page 7 

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 8 - 11

Article: "Wolverine: Cranking Up the Volume," by Doug Murray 

Pages 12 - 14

Hot Sheet, by Jerry A. Novick 

Page 15

Hembeck's Page 

Pages 16 - 17

Article: "Finding a home for Sachs & Violens, or: Why Epic?" by Peter David

Pages 18 - 21

Article: "The Style Revolution: Marvel's Apparel Approach for the '90s," by Steve Vrattos

Pages 22 - 23

Article: "Pizza Hut - X-Men to Go," by Terry Hernon 

Pages 24 - 26

Article: "Cosmic Presidigitation: The Making of the Fantastic Four Movie," by Rob Allstetter 

Page 27

Article: "Frantic Imagination: The Timely Career of Alex Schomburg," by Steve Duin

Pages 28 - 30 

Letters column: "What Da Ya Think?" 

Page 29 

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker 

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist: August

Inside back cover

Calendar for August 

 

With Daredevil's big 30th anniversary right around the corner, Marvel Age #127 unveiled the new miniseries Daredevil: The Man without Fear. Written by Frank Miller with art by John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson, the story explored DD's early days as he trained with Stick to master his new, ultra-sensitive senses. 

Also in this issue, a Marvel Movie Update talks up a possible Doctor Strange movie to be directed by Wes Craven, as well as an equally theoretical Black Panther movie to star Wesley Snipes. The article mentions a Blade movie but says it could star L.L. Cool. J. The article goes on to mention the new Marvel Films, with Avi Arad as President and CEO. 

And the continuing merry-go-round of articles about Marvel licensed projects lands this month on X-Men anniversary holograms. 

Marvel Age #127

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: June 15, 1993

Cover date: August 1993 

Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Jim Hoston: Designers

• Greg Capullo, Kevin Conrad, and Christopher Ebel: Front cover artists

• Frank Miller: Back cover artist

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Karl Bollers, Tom Brevoort, Lynaire Brust, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Michael Kraiger, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Carlos Lopez, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matthew Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Kevin Somers, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel, Flo Steinberg: Proofreaders

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Loretta Krol, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• John Bligh, Steve Bunche, Sergio Cariello, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowski, Spencer Lamm, Edward Murr, and Thomas Velasquez: Mechanical Artists

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Kevin Wiechmann: Mac Coordinator 

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Holly Joyner, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison 

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative 

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Gary Guzzo: Publicity Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Heidi Balaban, Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Editor without Fear

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• Coming soon, it's Magneto #0 - free to readers to buy all five X books in July. 

• Coming soon, it's the four-issue miniseries Thor Corps, by Tom DeFalco and Pat Olliffe. 

• The animated Spider-Man TV series joins the Fox Kids Network for the 1994 - 1995 season. 

• Marvel has acquired a 46 percent share of Toy Biz. 

• Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the X-Men, it's the X-Men 30th Anniversary Magazine. 

• Proceeds from the Spider-Man Special Edition: The Trial of Venom raised more than $500,000 for Unicef. 

• Quasar #50 will be a 48-page special with (what else?) a gold foil cover. 

Pages 4 - 6

Article: "Marvel and the Video Game Revolution Part 2," by Joe Caponsacco

Page 7 

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 8 - 11

Article: "Midnight Sons: Road to Terror," by Steve Vrattos

Pages 12 - 15

Article: "Daredevil" The Man Without Fear," by Anya Martin

Pages 16 - 17

Marvel Movie Update, by Tom Russo 

Pages 18 - 22

Article: "3-D Mutants," by Christopher Ebel 

Page 23

Hembeck's Page

Pages 24 - 25

Mark's Remarks

Page 25

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Pages 26 - 28

Hot Sheet, by Jerry A. Novick

Pages 29 - 30

Letters Column: "Marvel Aged to Perfection"

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist - July

Inside back cover

July calendar 

Marvel had licensed out its characters for trading cards and collectibles in recent years, so it was only a matter of time before they rolled a line of video games. To up the ante, this issue of Marvel Age invites readers to take part in a video game giveaway sweepstakes. Readers could win games from Acclaim or Sega just by sending in their name, age, and address. 

Also in this issue, it's Clive Barker's Razorline of exciting new comics, plus Marvel U.K.'s Frontier Comics -–not to mention the big crossover between The Punisher and Venom. As if things weren't hot enough already, there was the big Marvel Swimsuit Special, which mostly featured on illustrated heroes, but also made room for Marvel designer and sometime model Dawn Geiger. 

Marvel Age #126

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: May 18, 1993

Cover date: July 1993 

Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Heidi Balaban and Joe Kaufman: Additional design

• Tom Raney, Mark McKenna, and Joe Caponsacco: Front cover artists

• Mark McLaurin, Mark Pacella, Steve Skroce, Bob Dvorak, Anthony Williams, Arthur Nichols, Max Douglas and Mike Kraiger: Back cover artists

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Lynaire Brust, Karl Bollers, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Carlos Lopez, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matt Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Lisa Patrick, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison 

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative 

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Cenobite

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the X-Men with limited edition collector pin sets. 

• Coming soon, it's the Midnight Sons trade paperback and the new Morbius miniseries. 

• Deadpool gets his first miniseries in June, by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Joe Madureira. 

• The original horse-riding Ghost Rider returns in an upcoming miniseries written by Da Slott and drawn by Dick Ayers. 

• Coming soon, it's the 1993 Marvel Swimsuit Special. 

Pages 4 - 5

Mark's Remarks

Page 5

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker 

Pages 6 - 11

Article: "Razorline: An Interview with Clive Barker," by Tom Russo

Pages 12 - 14

Article: "Jump into the Pyre," by Robert Sodaro

Page 15

Hembeck's Page

Pages 16 - 19

Article: "Marvel Frontier Comics," by Frank Plowright

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "Let the Games Begin," by Joe Caponsacco 

Page 23

Epicenter, by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 24 - 26

Hot Sheet, by Jerry A. Novick

Page 27

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 28 - 30

Letters Column: "The Letter Column" 

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

June calendar

 

If you want to get to know Fabian Nicieza - and honestly, who doesn't? - this is the Marvel Age issue for you. Fabian sits down for an interview about his writing projects, complete with family pictures, behind the scenes art and more. 

Plus, Marvel strikes a publishing deal with a Japanese firm and sends Stan Lee and Spider-Man to seal the deal, and Mike Baron teams up with Mark Nelson for the very cool looking Epic series Feud. And Warlock is back in The Infinity Crusade, where he has to deal with his "confusing and aimless" existence as an omnipotent god. Tell me about it, brother... 

Marvel Age #125

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: April 20, 1993

Cover date: June 1993 

Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Dwayne Turner, Chris Ivey, and Joseph Caponsacco: Front cover artists

• Eliot Brown, Darick Robertson, Larry Mahlstedt, and Michael Kraiger: Back cover artists

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Heidi Balaban: Additional Design

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Karl Bollers, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Arthur Weiner: MIS Director

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Holly Joyner, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Freddie Mendez, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager / Retailers Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison 

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative 

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Thrasher

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• The TV show Bob filmed part of an episode at the Buster Awards, with appearances by Sergio Aragonés, Bob Kane, Jack Kirby, Mel Lazarus, Jim Lee, Mark Silvestri and others. 

• Marvel's holographic trading cards are coming soon. 

• She-Hulk gets a new look courtesy of writer Michael Eury, penciller Todd Britton, and cover artist Adam Hughes.

• Coming soon from Marvel UK, look for new series Warheads: Black Dawn and Cyberspace 3000. 

• Coming soon, it's The Survival Guide to The Mansion, taking readers inside the X-Men's HQ. 

• Marvel launches Japanese publishing partnership with "Space Zero" 

Pages 4 - 7

Article: "The Future of 2099," by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 8 - 10

Article: "Epicenter: Feud Sketchbook," by Randy Meredith

Pages 11 - 15

Article: "Hello, I Must Be Going: An Interview with Fabian Nicieza," by Steve Vrattos

Pages 16 - 17 

Article: "The Hunt for Magneto," by Troy Hernon

Pages 18 - 19

Mark's Remarks

Page 19

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "The Warlock Chronicles," by Sonja Ratcliffe

Page 23

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 24 - 26

Hot Sheet by Jerry A. Novick

Page 27 

Hembeck's Page

Pages 28 - 30

Letters Column: "What If...There Was Not Letter Column?" 

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover 

May 1993 calendar 

Marvel Age #124 looks at the next chapter of Jim Starlin's continuing cosmic journey across the Marvel Universe with The Infinity Crusade, as well as Epic's Heavy Hitters line, the latter of which featured Joe Kubert's first work for Marvel in close to 40 years. Hey, it helps if your sons are two of the publisher's hottest artists! 

Also in this issue, Marvel promotes one of the weirdest licensed comics ever: Mad Dog, which spun out of the short-lived TV series Bob, starring Bob Newhart as comics artist Bob McKay. In the show, Bob created Mad Dog, which is revived by a new publisher who wants to make the characters less of a nice guy and more of a bloodthirsty vigilante. The comic reflected that by having two stories per issue: one written and drawn by Ty Templeton, starring the old version, and the other by writer Evan Dorkin and artist Gordon Purcell. 

Also in this issue, readers learned about upcoming projects including The Trouble with Girls, a new Tor series by Joe Kubert, and Howard Chaykin's Midnight Men. 

Marvel Age #124

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: March 16, 1993

Cover date: May 1993 

Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Ron Lim, Terry Austin, and Michael Kraiger: Front cover artists

• Joe Kubert: Back cover artist

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Bobbie Chase, Danny Fingeroth and Bob Harras: Group Editors 

• Craig Anderson, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Karl Bollers, Joey Cavalieri, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Barry Dutter, Eric Fein, James Felder, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matt Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Frank Percy, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ariane Lenshoek, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Steve Dutro, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Arthur Weiner: MIS Director

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Melisa Danon, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Gary Guzzo, Barry Kaplan, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager / Retailers Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison 

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative 

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Infinity Senior

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

Item: Spider-Man and the Punisher team up in Designer Genes, a one-shot by writer Terry Kavanaugh and artist Scott McDaniel.

Item: The story "For Love Nor Money" weaves through Terror Inc. #11, Cage #15, Silver Sable #13, Terror Inc. #12, Cage #16, and Silver Sable #14. 

Item: Death3 is a four-issue miniseries coming soon from Marvel UK, featuring three different Death's Heads. 

Item: Coming soon, it's The Ren & Stimpy Show: The Big Bugger, collecting the first four issues of the comics series. 

Item: Moon Knight #50, Web of Spider-Man #100, Spectacular Spider-Man #200, and Uncanny X-Men #300 will all be extra-sized issues with holo-grafx foil covers. 

Pages 4 - 6

Article: "Howling at the Moon: A Mad Dog Preview," by Andy Mangels

Page 7

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 8 - 11

Article: "Heavy Mettle," by Anya Martin

Pages 12 - 13

Article: "New Cards on the Block," by Karl Bollers

Pages 14 - 16

Hot Sheet

Pages 17 - 19

Article: "A Composition on the Conclusion of the Cosmic Crossover," by Doug Murray 

Pages 20 - 21

Article: "Hangin' 10 with Norrin Radd," by Robert Sodaro

Pages 22 - 24

Article: "Civil War," by Kristin Sundin 

Page 25

Epicenter, by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 26 - 27

Mark's Remarks

Page 27

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker 

Page 28

Hembeck's Page

Page 29 - 30

Letters column: "Mutants, Mutants Everywhere, But Not a One to See" 

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

April 1993 calendar