Butch Guice, then the new artist on Micronauts, puts his own stamp on the time-honored "artist surrounded by the characters he draws" idea with this cover. Guice was only a few issues into his run on the series at the time, and he was already making a big impact with this, his first major comics assignment. The image also includes references to Micronauts writer Bill Mantlo, the movie E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, and the early 1980s humorous book on masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche.
We're only three issues in, and Micronauts is already the second non-Marvel property to make the cover of Marvel Age, although it gets an asterisk for mixing toy properties with a few original characters, which has made reprinting the series next to impossible. (Never say never, right?)
Marvel Age #3
Price: $0.25 US
Pages: 20 (16 interior plus four covers)
On sale: June 1983
Copyright © 1983 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation.
• Editor: Carol Kalish
• Assistant Editor: Peter David
• Designer: Lea Sapp
• Production: Danny Crespi and Ron Zalme
• Typesetters: Nancy Dodaro and Wendy Cooper Fitzgerald
• Photostats: Rob Carosella and Harry Candelario
• Colorists: Stan Goldberg, Paul Becton and George Roussos
• Letterer: Joe Albelo
• Logo: John Morelli
• Guiding light: Jim Shooter
Front cover
• Pencils/inks: Butch Guice
• Characters: Micronauts
Inside front cover
• Ad for Dreadstar #4
Page 1
• Contents
• Masthead
• Indicia
Pages 2 – 4
• Marvel Comics Coming Attactions (no writing credits)
Comics on sale May 3, 1983 - May 24, 1983
Summaries of:
The Thing #3
King Conan #18
Dazzler #28
Daredevil #198
New Mutants #7
Amazing Spider-Man #244
Captain America #285
Thor #335
Moon Knight #33
Indiana Jones #9
Crystar #3 (sic)
Hawkeye #1
Return of the Jedi #1
Kull the Conqueror #3
Fantastic Four Annual #17
U.S. 1 #5
Micronauts #54
Incredible Hulk #287
Marvel Tales #155
Avengers #235
Conan the Barbarian #150
X-Men #173
Power Man/Iron Fist #97
G.I. Joe #15
Rom #46
Iron Man #74
Marvel Team-Up #133
Fantastic Four #258
Peter Parker #82 (sic)
Defenders #123
Star Wars #75
Marvel Universe Handbook #9 (sic)
Alpha Flight #2
Epic Illustrated #19
Dreadstar #5
Marvel Graphic Novel #8 -- Dazzler: The Movie!
Blip #6
Savage Sword of Conan #91
Octopussy -- Marvel Super Special #27
Marvel Age #6
Marvel Fanfare #10
Page 4
• Marvel Comic Retractions
Corrections on previous listings on:
Avengers #233
X-Men #171
• Less than one-third page ad for retailers to be listed in the Marvel Comics Super Mart
• This page also includes a new disclaimer in tiny type: "While we never knowingly print inaccurate information in these pages, Marvel Comics reserves the right to make any changes that become necessary. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. -- The Bullpen"
Page 5
• News Watch
Items on:
• Holiday party featuring a performance by Larry Hama's group, the, um, Burning Sensations -- art by Bob Camp, future Ren & Stimpy animator:
• Al Milgrom is going back to his freelance career and leaving the editorial staff.
• Announcements of Marvel Graphic Novel #7: Killraven and an adaptation of the animated movie Rock and Roll.
• A look at schedule shifts that resulted in Ka-Zar #26 being delayed and Red Sonja #1 moving three weeks. Plus, "As for those of you who complain because New Mutants comes out the same week as Teen Titans, give us a break, huh?"
Pages 6-9
• Article: “Butch Guice Gets Small” by Patrick O'Neill
Interview with Micronauts artist Butch Guice, including sketches of Moon Knight, Kitty Pryde, a caveman, a space explorer...and Charlie Chaplin? Sure, why not?
• Article: "Stories I'd Rather Not Write," by Roger Stern, with great illustrations by Stan Goldberg
Stories Roger describes include:
"If This Be Bucky--!" (which kind of echoes some of the plot points in the Winter Soldier's storyline in the MCU...hmm!)
"The Clone's Story" (relates what happened to the Gwen Stacy clone introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #144; she's now elderly, because the process to grow her to adulthood at an accelerated rate never slowed down; also, she's a nun, because, uh, reasons?)
• One-third page Marvel Age subscription ad with art by Ron Zalme
• Box promising that yes, there will be letters column for Marvel Age.
• Article: "Comics of Epic Proportions," by Peter Sanderson
Covers the Epic Comics line, with quotes from editor Archie Goodwin, writer/artist Jim Starlin on Dreadstar, the Coyote team of writer Steve Englehart on Coyote and artist Steve Leialoha, who reveal that Coyote was envisioned originally by Steve and artist Al Weiss as a character called "Sage Elf"!
Inside back cover
• Ad for Coyote with art by Steve Leialoha
• "In This Issue" text:
"Butch Guice Sizes Up the Micronauts"
"The Creation of the Epic Comics Line"
"The Unwanted Return of Bucky Barnes"
"And Much More!"
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