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.
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 #1662 - Fantastic Four #2513 - Amazing Spider-Man #2374 - Avengers #2285 - Daredevil #1916 - Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #757 - Conan #1438 - Marvel Team-Up #1269 - Incredible Hulk #28010 - 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
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
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