The Wolverine-ing of America continued with Marvel Age #11, promoting the Wolverine and Kitty Pryde miniseries by writer Chris Claremont and artist Al Milgrom. This was just a year and a half after the initial Wolverine mini with art by Frank Miller and Joe Rubinstein. 

Elsewhere in this issue, Marvel Coming Attractions adds text that defines limited series, graphic novel, etc., and also suggests readers fans tell their comics shop owners to order copies for them. Good advice, Marvel Age! And after last month's note about heroes mysteriously disappearing, this month has a note about heroes mysteriously reappearing. Good follow-up, Marvel Age! 

Marvel Age founding editor Carol Kalish spills the tea on the origins of Marvel Press, which sold posters and other items. 

Fans got their first look at the Generic Comic in this issue, featuring art by an artist and a story by a writer, who was revealed many years later to have been Steve Skeates. The art looks a bit like Mark Wheatley drew it, but that has never been confirmed -- I'll have to ask him when I see him next. 

And the letters page this month this month features art by Laurence Kraus portraying that most regal of Marvel heroes: Namor, the Sub-Mariner! Behold the royal presence in all its glory! 

Marvel Age #11

Price: $0.25 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: November 8, 1983

Cover date: February, 1984

Copyright © 1983 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation. 

• Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter

• Editor and Design Director: Jim Salicrup

• Editorial Assistant: Mark Lerer

• Art/Production Coordinator: Dan Crespi

• Assistant Art/Production Coordinator: Ron Zalme

• Production: Joe Albelo, Harry Candelario, Rob Carosella, Morrie Kuramoto, Ken Lopez, John 

  Morelli, and Barry Shapiro

• Typesetters: Brenda Mings and Jay Zilber

• Colorists: Paul Becton and George Roussos

• Proofreader: Alice Roth

• Friendly Assistance: Lynn Cohen and Craig Anderson

• Cover Artist: Al Milgrom

• Direct Sales Manager: Carol Kalish

• Assistant Direct Sales Managers: Peter David and Lea Sapp

• Artist in Residence: Irving Forbush 

Front cover 

• Characters: Wolverine and Kitty Pryde

 Inside front cover

• Subscription ad for Marvel Age

 

Page 1

• Contents

• Masthead 

• Indicia 

Editorial: "Marvel's Top Ten" by Jim Salicrup:

1 - X-Men #166

2 - Fantastic Four #251

3 - Amazing Spider-Man #237

4 - Avengers #228

5 - Daredevil #191

6 - Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #75

7 - Conan #143

8 - Marvel Team-Up #126

9 - Incredible Hulk #280

10 - Iron Man #167

Pages 2 – 5

Marvel Comics Coming Attactions 

Comics on sale January 24

• The Thing #11

• Daredevil #206

• New Mutants #15

• Dazzler #32

• Conan the King #22

• Kitty and Wolverine #1

• Six from Sirius #2

Comics on sale January 31

• Amazing Spider-Man #252

• Captain America #293 (This story was originally slated to run in issue #292) 

• Thor #343

• Indiana Jones #17

• Savage Sword of Conan #99

• Moon Knight #37

• Micronauts #58

• Crystar #7 

• Tarzan of the Apes #2

Comics on sale February 7

• Incredible Hulk #295

• Avengers #243

• Conan the Barbarian #158

• Marvel Tales #163

• X-Men #181

• Rom #54

• Power Man and Iron Fist #105

• G.I. Joe #23

• Marvel Age Magazine #14

• Marvel Fanfare #14

• Epic Illustrated #23

Comics on sale February 14

• Fantastic Four #266

• Marvel Team-Up #141

• Iron Man #182

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #90

• The New Defenders #131

• Star Wars #83

• Alpha Flight #10

• Dreadstar #9

• Hercules #3

• Beauty and the Beast #1

• Marvel Graphic Novel #11 - Heartburst

Page 5

Special Note: Newswatch will include an explanation for the disappearing heroes

Page 6

Newswatch 

Item on Cosmic Champions, which would be published in 1984 as Marvel Contest of Champions. 

Item on the radio show "Comic Book Quiz" on WNYE

Item on G.I. Joe commercials

Page 7 

Ad for Alien Legion

Pages 8 - 10

Article: "Wolverine and Kitty Pryde," by Bill Slavicsek

Pages 11 - 13

Article: "Hercules, Prince of Power," by Mark Lerer

Pages 14 - 15

Article: "The Origins of Marvel Press," by Carol Kalish, as told to Mark Lerer

Pages 16 - 18

Article: "Steve Englehart's Coyote Changes," by Robert J. Sodaro

Pages 19 - 21

Article: "The Generic Comic," by a writer

Pages 22 - 24

Article: "The New Defenders," by Mark Lerer

Pages 25 - 27

Article: "Tarzan of the Apes - A Super Special Saga," by D. Jon Zimmerman 

Pages 28 - 29

Article: "What Is the Official marvel Comics Try-Out Book," by Mark Lerer

Page 30 

Ad for Conan the King #21

Pages 31 - 32

Letters page: "Marvel Gauge," with header art by Laurence Kraus

Includes a letter from future letterer Bob Pinaha

Inside back cover

Ad for the A-Team comic 

Back cover

Subscription ad for Epic Illustrated 

Return of the Jedi hit theaters on May 25, 1983, and with that, the original Star Wars movie trilogy was complete -- but the monthly Star Wars comic series continued with new adventures. The cast of the comic is pictured on the cover of Marvel Age #10, drawn by Ron Frenz (who only ended up drawing a handful of issues) with inks by frequent M.A. contributor Jack Abel. (Frenz is also the third Ron to draw a Marvel Age cover, after Ron Zalme and Ron Wilson. Sounds like...a Ronspiracy!) 

This is also one of the only times -- maybe THE only time -- the original Marvel Age logo was changed to go with the property on the cover. 

As you can see, the cast of the comic expanded on the movie's cast considerably! This issue features an interview with Star Wars writer Jo Duffy and editor Louise Simonson, who talk about what's coming up for Luke, Leia, Han and the rest of the cast without giving much away. 

Writer Archie Goodwin reveals the secret behind his return to Power Man and Iron Fist, a series that he wrote when it began in 1972 under the title Hero for Hire. Says Archie, "Well, Denny O'Neil had mentioned that he was looking for a writer to fill in while he as searching for a regular writer for the book, so I volunteered." Legendary, right? The planned three-issue run only ended up running two issues, #103-104, and then it was back to frequent fill-ins until Christopher Priest took over with issue #111. 

There's also an article on the long-gestating Alien Legion, with writer/creator Carl Potts talking about the series' beginnings eight years earlier. 

The New Talent Department spotlights inker Kathy Orlando, who seems not to have ultimately done much work in comics. 

And in this month's untitled letters page, readers voted on letter column titles including "Marvel Post-Age," "Marvel Mail Bagg-Age," "Age Page," and "Marvel Page." (Side note: not exactly sure when this practice started, but Marvel Age was always deluged with mail because they received all the letters addressed to Marvel Comics, as opposed to a specific comic or editor.) 

Four dollars for 12 issues? What a bargain! 

Marvel Age #10

Price: $0.25 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: October 10, 1983

Cover date: January, 1984

Copyright © 1983 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation. 

• Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter

• Editor and Design Director: Jim Salicrup

• Editorial Assistant: Mark Lerer

• Art/Production Coordinator: Dan Crespi

• Assistant Art/Production Coordinator: Ron Zalme

• Production: Joe Albelo, Harry Candelario, Rob Carosella, Morrie Kuramoto, Ken Lopez, John 

  Morelli, and Barry Shapiro

• Typesetters: Nancy Dodaro, Brenda Mings, and Jay Zilber

• Colorists: Paul Becton, George Roussos, and Glynis Wein

• Proofreader: Alice Roth

• Friendly Assistance: Lynn Cohen and Margaret Clark

• Cover Artists: Ron Frenz and Jack Abel

• Direct Sales Manager: Carol Kalish

• Assistant Direct Sales Managers: Peter David and Lea Sapp

• Corner Symbol who thinks he's a droid: Irving Forbush 

Front cover 

• Characters: All the Star Wars

 Inside front cover

• Subscription ad for Marvel Age

 

Page 1

• Contents

• Masthead 

• Indicia 

Editorial: "And the Beat Goes On..." by Jim Salicrup 

Pages 2 – 5

Marvel Comics Coming Attactions 

Comics on sale December 27

• The Thing #10

• Daredevil #205

• New Mutants #14

• Ka-Zar #31

• Hercules #3

• The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #15 - special "Book of Weapons" issue

• Six from Serius #1 (sic)

Comics on sale January 3

• Amazing Spider-Man #251 -- Spidey mysteriously disappears! 

• Captain America #292

• Thor #342

• Indiana Jones #16 (sic)

• Savage Sword of Conan #98

• Dr. Strange #64

• U.S. 1 #9

• X-Men/Micronauts #4

• The Generic Comic #1

• Tarzan of the Apes #1

Comics on sale January 10

• Incredible Hulk #294 -- the Hulk mysteriously disappears! 

• Avengers #242

• Conan #157

• Marvel Tales #162

• X-Men #180

• Rom #53

• Power Man and Iron Fist #104

• G.I. Joe #22

• Marvel Age Magazine #13

Comics on sale January 17

• Fantastic Four #265 -- more on these mysterious disappearances! 

• Marvel Team-Up #140

• Iron Man #181

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #89

• Defenders #130

• Star Wars #82

• Alpha Flight #9

• Coyote #5

• What If #44

• Jack of Hearts #4

• Micronauts Special Edition #5

Page 5

Note -- What If #43 gets a content update 

Special Note on heroes mysteriously vanishing in this month's Coming Attractions. 

Page 6

Newswatch

Announcing Marvel Press, which will publish posters and portfolios

Page 7

Behind the Lines

"Ideas," written and illustrated by Archie Goodwin 

Pages 8 - 11

Article: "Beyond Star Wars," by Patrick Daniel O'Neill

Interview with editor Louise Jones and writer Jo Duffy

Pages 12 - 13

Article: "The Elektra Saga," by D. Jon Zimmerman

Pages 14 - 16

Article: "Who Are the Futurians," by Sandy Hausler

Pages 17 - 19

Article: "Archie Goodwin Returns to Power Man and Iron Fist," by Robert J. Sodaro

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "Beauty and the Beast," by Mark Lerer

Interview with writer Ann Nocenti

Pages 23 - 25

Article: "The Alien Legion," by Mark Lerer

Pages 26 - 28

New Talent Department

Spotlight on inker Kathy Orlando 

Page 29

Marvel Wants You 

Page 30

Ad for the Jack of Hearts miniseries

Pages 31 - 32

Untitled letters page

Inside back cover

Ad for Beauty and the Beast

Back cover

Ad for Conan the King #20 

Could this be the hardest-hitting issue of Marvel Age yet? If the Super Boxers are on the cover, you know the answer is a resounding yes! This entry in the Marvel Graphic Novel series was co-written by Ron Wilson and John Byrne with art by Wilson and Armando Gil, and it was clearly a passion project for boxing fan Wilson. 

This jam-packed issue pulled back the curtain for fans to learn about what's happening with the Jack of Hearts, Captain America, Moon Knight, Sub-Mariner, and more, including peeks at art from these projects. 

The New Talent Department features yet another future comics star, inker Karl Kesel, who here provides finishes on Indiana Jones pencils by Kerry Gammill. 

This issue's cover also features the first original corner box drawing by Ron Zalme of perennial Marvel mascot Irving Forbush, who is hear shown half-collapsed in his corner of a boxing ring. Irv would remain a Marvel Age cover fixture through issue #105. 

Oh, also? Blip is cancelled. Sad for Blip. 

Marvel Age #9

Price: $0.25 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: September 6, 1983

Cover date: December 1983 

Copyright © 1983 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation. 

• Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter

• Editor and Design Director: Jim Salicrup

• Editorial Assistant: Mark Lerer

• Art/Production Coordinator: Danny Crespi

• Assistant Art/Production Coordinator: Ron Zalme

• Production: Joe Albelo, Harry Candelario, Rob Carosella, Morrie Kuramoto, Ken Lopez, John 

  Morelli, and Barry Shapiro

• Typesetter: Nancy Dodaro

• Colorists: Paul Becton and George Roussos

• Friendly Assistance: Glorie Cohen, Lynn Cohen and Margaret Clark

• Proofreader: Alice Roth

• Cover: Ron Wilson and Armando Gil 

• Direct Sales Manager: Carol Kalish

• Assistant Direct Sales Managers: Peter David and Lea Sapp

• Corner Symbol: Irving Forbush 

Front cover 

• Characters: Super Boxers

 Inside front cover

• Ad for Beauty and the Beast

 

Page 1

• Contents

• Masthead 

• Indicia 

Editorial: "Is it art?" by Jim Salicrup (continues on page 8) 

Pages 2 – 5

• Marvel Comics Coming Attactions 

Comics on sale November 22

• The Thing #9

• Daredevil #204

• New Mutants #13

• Dazzler #31

• Conan the King #21

• Hercules #2

• The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #14

• Tarzan of the Apes - Marvel Super Special #29 (sic)

Comics on sale December 6 (This week's books were listed before the previous week's books, below) 

• Incredible Hulk #293

• Avengers #241

• Conan the Barbarian #156

• Marvel Tales #161

• X-Men #179

• Rom #52

• Power Man and Iron Fist #103

• G.I. Joe #21

• Elektra Saga #3

• Marvel Fanfare #13

• Marvel Age Magazine #12

• Epic Illustrated #22

Comics on sale November 29

• Amazing Spider-Man #250

• Captain America #291

• Thor #341

• Indiana Jones #15 (sic) 

• Savage Sword of Conan #97

• Moon Knight #36

• Micronauts #57

• Crystar #6 (sic)

• X-Men/Micronauts #3

• Magik #4 (formerly listed as Illyana and Storm)

Comics on sale December 13

• Fantastic Four #264

• Marvel Team-Up #139

• Iron Man #180

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #88

• Defenders #129

• Star Wars #81

• Alpha Flight #8

• Dreadstar #8

• Jack of Hearts #3

• Micronauts Special Edition #4

Page 6

Newswatch

Items on:

    • Assistant editor's month

    • The Elektra Saga

    • King Conan now titled Conan the King

    • Micronauts Special Edition

    • X-Men Classics

Page 6

Marvel Coming Retractions

    • Schedule changes for Coyote #4, Red Sonja #3, and Marvel Fumettis (sic) #1 

    • Black Panther, Mantis, Machine Man, and Nightcrawler limited series are all delayed

    • Blip has been cancelled

Pages 6 - 7

Behind the Lines

    Mark Gruenwald writes about his editorial philosophy, including: 

    1 - "The editor's job is to get good books to edit"

    2 - "The editor's job is to figure out your books' fundamental concepts and appeal"

    3 - "The editor's job is to get the best people you can to do the books"

    4 - "An editor's job, once you get good people, is to let those people do good things"

    5 - "An editor's job is to hedge bets"

Page 8

Editorial: "Is it art?" (continued from page 1)

Last Minute Additions...

    • Spider-Man and Daredevil #1

    • Doctor Strange Special Edition #1

    • Captain America Special Edition #1

    • Marvel Graphic Novel #9 - The Futurians

Pages 9 - 12

Article: "The Super Boxers," by Mark Lerer

Pages 13 - 15

Article: "The Jack of Hearts," by Patrick Daniel O'Neill

Pages 16 - 19

Article: "The Creation of the Sub-Mariner Limited Series," by Robert Simpson and Mark Lerer

Sub-Mariner by Bob Budiansky: 

 

Pages 20 - 21

Article: "A New Look for Captain America," by Sandy Hausler

Captain America by Paul Neary: 

Pages 22 - 23

Article: "New Directions for Moon Knight," by Robert J. Sodaro

Page 24

Article: "Marvel at the Movies: Silver Surfer in Summer Film," by Jay Boyar

Pages 25 - 28

New Talent Department: Karl Kesel

Pages 29, 31 and 32

Letters page, no title

Many letters about a typo in which Rom was spelled "Ron." 

Page 30

A Marvel Masterwork Pin-Up: Rom - NOT RON! - Spaceknight

Inside back cover

Ad for The Alien Legion

Back cover

Art for King Conan #20

The two names fans most wanted to hear from in 1983 -- Stan Lee and Jim Shooter -- are featured in a lengthy interview in Marvel Age #8, under a cover illustrated by Ron Zalme. This is one of those covers that doesn't promote anything in particular other than Marvel itself, but that didn't make it any less appealing. (Love that magenta shirt and yellow/black pants combo!) 

This cover also features the first appearance of Irving Forbush, the Marvel Age mascot who would go on to symbolize the spirit of fun the magazine stood for. 

The 11-page interview covers what Stan was up to at the time -- developing movie projects, mostly -- and how Jim got started in comics and made his way to Marvel. Along the way, they discuss two stories I'd heard about for years but never saw in print: How Iron Man got his nose (Stan saw a very flat looking Iron Man mask and said "Doesn't he have a nose?"), and why Stan hates green on covers (he doesn't, but the one time he said something seems to have had a big impact). 

As for those movies...here's the list:

    • An original super-hero project created by Shooter and George Romero

    • A Human Torch movie from Columbia pictures

    • A live action X-Men movie from Nelvana 

    • A Dazzler movie

    • A Spider-Man movie produced by Roger Corman

    • A Black Widow movie -- probably not this one

    • A Daredevil movie

    • A Captain America...Broadway show

Also in this issue, Marvel Age explains why The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe was expanding by two issues (answer: because you demanded it!), and an article explaining who the Golden Age characters that appear in the then-current reprint of the Avengers Kree/Skrull War epic were, with what appears to be a new piece of art by John Byrne and Jack Abel. 

Paul Smith and John Romita Jr., then rising star artists, are also profiled this issue. And the New Talent Department spotlights future G.I. Joe artist Rod Whigham, who Marvel editor Bob Budiansky had met at a comic book convention. 

More Conan comedy courtesy of Paul Smith

Marvel Age #8

Price: $0.25 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: August 9, 1983

Cover date: November 1983 

Copyright © 1983 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation. 

• Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter

• Editor and Design Director: Jim Salicrup

• Editorial Assistant: Mark Lerer

• Art/Production Coordinator: Danny Crespi

• Assistant Art/Production Coordinator: Ron Zalme

• Production: Joe Albelo, Harry Candelario, Rob Carosella, Ken Lopez, Morrie Kuramoto, John 

  Morelli, and Barry Shapiro

• Typesetters: Nancy Dodaro and Carl Gafford

• Colorist: George Roussos

• Friendly Assistance: Lynn Cohen and Margaret Clark

• Cover: Ron Zalme 

• Direct Sales Manager: Carol Kalish

• Assistant Direct Sales Managers: Peter David and Lea Sapp

• Corner Symbol: Irving Forbush

Front cover 

• Characters: Stan Lee, Jim Shooter and friends 

 Inside front cover

• Ad for The New Defenders

 

Page 1

• Contents

• Masthead 

• Indicia 

Editorial: "Get Well, Stan" (Stan Lee had recently undergone minor surgery) 

Pages 2 – 5

• Marvel Comics Coming Attactions 

Red Sonja art by Howard Chaykin -- not sure what it's from

Comics on sale October 25, 1983 

    • The Thing #8

    • Daredevil #203

    • New Mutants #12

    • Ka-Zar #30

    • Red Sonja #4

    • The Falcon #4

    • Kull the Conqueror #4

    • Hercules #1

    • Conan Annual #8

    • The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #13

Comics on sale November 1, 1983

    • Amazing Spider-Man #249

    • Captain America #290

    • Thor #340

    • The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #134

    • Savage Sword of Conan #96

    • Doctor Strange #63

    • U.S. 1 #8

    • X-Men/Micronauts #2

    • Illyana and Storm #3

Comics on sale November 8, 1983

    • Incredible Hulk #292

    • Avengers #240

    • Conan #155

    • Marvel Tales #160

    • X-Men #178

    • Rom #51

    • Power Man and Iron Fist #102

    • G.I. Joe #20

    • Marvel Age Magazine #11

    • The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #14 

Comics on sale November 15, 1983

    • Fantastic Four #263

    • Marvel Team-Up #138

    • Iron Man #179

    • Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #87

    • Defenders #128

    • Star Wars #80

    • Alpha Flight #7

    • Coyote #5

    • What If #43

    • Jack of Hearts #2

Page 5

    Last Minute Additions...

        • Tales of Asgard #1, on sale October 25

        • Marvel Fanfare Special Edition #1, on sale November 1 (doesn't look like this published) 

        • The Super Boxers Graphic Novel #9 (sic), on sale November 8

        • Micronauts Special Edition #3, on sale November 15

        • Captain America Special Edition #1, on sale November 15

Page 6

    Newswatch

    Items on:

    • Jack of Hearts miniseries with art by George Freeman

    • Marvel Team-Up Thrillers trade paperback 

Pages 7 - 8

    Behind the Lines

    • "Short story" by Larry Hama about the Abomination 

    • Al Milgrom on the job of an editor

    • "In Your Future," by Carl Potts, about Alien Legin

Pages 9 - 19

    Article: "The Marvel Age Magazine Interview: Stan Lee and Jim Shooter"

Not sure why this was stuck in the middle of the Stan Lee and Jim Shooter interview, but it's probably the best cover of the month, hands down... 

Pages 20 - 21

    Article: "The Marvel Universe Expanded," by Mark Lerer 

    Covers three extra issues of The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

Pages 22 - 24

    Article: "Golden Age Greats, Revisited," by Warren Reece

    Covers Golden Age heroes

Pages 25 - 27

    Article: "A Tale of Two Artists," by Robert Sodaro and Mark Lerer 

    Article on artists Paul Smith and John Romita Jr. 

Pages 28 - 30

    The New Talent Department

    Spotlight on artist Rod Whigham

Pages 31 - 32

    Letters: "Mark Duncan's Page" (because a guy named Mark Duncan wrote in and said, "Why not call it 'Mark Duncan's Page'?" Why not indeed.) 

Inside back cover

    Ad for the Cloak and Dagger miniseries

Back cover

    Ad for King Conan #20

"Twice as many pages! Only 25¢!"

That's what is says on the cover of Marvel Age #7, the first issue will a full 32 pages inside. Despite the new expansion, this issue is chock full of content, starting with the Micronauts (this time joined by the X-Men) and artist Butch Guice making their second cover appearance. 

As promised, this issue kicks off the very popular "New Talent" feature, per EIC Jim Shooter's wishes. For fans looking back now, this inaugural article doesn't disappoint, as one of the young artists in question is none other than future superstar Tim Sale, who inks a page pencilled by John Buscema as his sample! 

"Coming Attractions" for this month makes a brief mention of the now-legendary "Assistant Editors Month," but doesn't come near capturing the insanity of that event. And in "Newswatch," we get another Rom redesign by Walter Simonson, this time of Starshine, as well as some playful fun with the logo for Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man. 

Art/Production Supervisor Danny Crespi has his "Employee Performance Record" revealed in an article by Jim Shooter--and Shooter himself is spotlighted in a page inspired by The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. 

Artist Bob Camp updates the "Map of the Marvel Bullpen" previously seen on the cover of FOOM #16 back in 1976, while the letters page features header art and a letter by future storyboard artist Benton Jew, as well as a gag drawing by Mike Carlin. 

Marvel Age #7

Price: $0.25 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: October 1983 

Copyright © 1983 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation. 

• Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter

• Editor and Design Director: Jim Salicrup

• Editorial Assistant: Mark Lerer

• Art/Production Coordinator: Danny Crespi

• Assistant Art/Production Coordinator: Ron Zalme

• Production: Harry Candelario, Rob Carosella, Stu Schwarzberg, Joe Albelo, John Morelli, 

  and Barry Shapiro

• Typesetter: Nancy Dodaro

• Colorists: Paul Becton and George Roussos

• Logo: John Morelli

• Friendly Assistance: Lynn Cohen and Margaret Clark

• Cover: Butch Guice and Bob Wiacek (cover credits now listed in the masthead!) 

• Direct Sales Manager: Carol Kalish

• Assistant Direct Sales Managers: Peter David and Lea Sapp

Front cover 

• Characters: X-Men and Micronauts

 Inside front cover

• Ad for Indiana Jones

 

Page 1

• Contents

• Masthead 

• Indicia 

Column: "The Stars of Tomorrow" 

Pages 2 – 5

• Marvel Comics Coming Attactions (no writing credits) 

Comics on sale September 27, 1983 

    • The Thing #7

    • Daredevil #202

    • New Mutants #11

    • Dazzler #30

    • King Conan #20

    • Return of the Jedi #4

    • The Falcon #3

    • Moon Knight Special Edition #3

    • Machine Man #1

    • Marvel Fumettis #1 (published as the Marvel Fumetti Book #1) 

    • Avengers Annual #12

    • X-Men Annual #7

Comics on sale October 4, 1983

    • Amazing Spider-Man #248

    • Captain America #289

    • Thor #339

    • Indiana Jones #13

    • Savage Sword of Conan #95

    • Moon Knight #35

    • Micronauts #56

    • Crystar #5

    • X-Men/Micronauts #1

    • S.H.I.E.L.D. #2

Comics on sale October 7, 1983

    • Epic Illustrated #21

Comics on sale October 11, 1983

    • Incredible Hulk #291

    • Avengers #239

    • Conan #154

    • Marvel Tales #159 

    • X-Men #177

    • Rom #59

    • Power Man and Iron Fist #101

    • G.I. Joe #19

    • Cloak and Dagger #4

    • Sub-Mariner #1

    • Blip #10 (seriously, did these issues ever get printed?) 

    • Marvel Age Magazine #10 

Comics on sale October 18, 1983

    • Fantastic Four #262

    • Marvel Team-Up #137

    • Marvel Fanfare #12

    • Iron Man #178

    • Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #86

    • Defenders #127

    • Star Wars #79

    • Alpha Flight #6

    • Dreadstar #7

    • Mantis #1 (Doesn't look like this miniseries by Denny O'Neil and Val Mayerik ever published) 

Page 5

    Note to retailers to get their stores listed in the Marvel Comics Super Mart. 

Page 6

Newswatch -- mostly making the point that so much stuff is going on it's impossible to keep up. 

    Items mention: 

    • Shadowmasters

    • Alien Legion

    • The Doctor Strange graphic novel (not sure this published)

    • Magneto limited series (I don't think this published -- certainly not under this name) 

    • Fantastic Four

    • Longshot

    • Marvel Team-Up Annual

    • Sub-Mariner limited series

    • Howard the Duck limited series (this didn't publish either)

    • Machine Man limited series

    • S.H.I.E.L.D. limited series

    • Thing graphic novel

    • Futurians graphic novel

    • Soldier of Void (This might have been a working title for Void Indigo) 

    • Kitty Pryde and Wolverine limited series

    • A comic by Bob Bolling (that would have been Wally the Wizard)

Pages 6 - 7

Behind the Lines

   Job review of Art/Production Supervisor Danny Crespi by Jim Shooter

Page 7

More Heroes Behind the Scenes Dept. 

    Profile of Assistant Editor Ann Nocenti by Carl Potts

Page 8 

Article: "Machine Man Returns!" by Mark Lerer

Pages 9 - 12

Article: "An Annual Tradition," by Robert Simpson and Mark Lerer

Pages 13 - 14

Article: "Creating a New Limited Series: The Falcon" by Jim Oswley

Page 15

"The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Volume One" -- spotlight on Jim Shooter 

Pages 16 - 18

"A Map of the Marvel Bullpen," art by Bob Camp -- with a key to who's who

Pages 18 - 19

Article: "A Special Preview of Marvel Tails," by Jim Salicrup

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "Mutants and Micronauts" by Sandy Hausler

Pages 23 - 24

Article: "Dazzler: The Graphic Novel" by Sandy Hausler and Mark Lerer

Page 25

Article: "The Creation of the Dazzler" by Sandy Hausler and Mark Lerer 

Pages 26 - 29

Article: "The New Talent Department"

Intro by Jim Salicrup

Critiques of artwork by:

    • Tim Sale (yes, that Tim Sale!)

    • John Torrisi

Page 30

"Marvel Wants You!" -- guidelines for submitting artwork to Marvel, with art by Terry Austin

Pages 31 - 32 

Letters page: "Marvel Mail Baggage," with illustrations by Benton Jew and Mike Carlin

Inside back cover

Ad for Daredevil #200

Back cover

Ad for The Defenders