Make Mine Marvel Age

 

The Marvel team celebrates the life of Sol Brodsky in Marvel Age #22. Brodsky was, of course, an artist, occasional writer, production manager, special projects maven, and much more. The quotes in this issue's extensive article from folks like Stan Lee, Mike Esposito, Jim Galton and others, he was a beloved member of extended Marvel family, and even when he went off to co-found Skywald Publications, he received encouragement from Stan, and was welcomed back when Skywald folded. 

Most of this issue is dedicated to Sol Brodsky. Besides the usual departments, like Coming Attractions and Newswatch, the only article is about the Iceman miniseries. Even "Hembeck's Page in Marvel Age" took a break this month so as not to interrupt the tribute to the man who designed the original Fantastic Four logo, among many other accomplishments. Below are a portrait of Sol by Marie Severin and a Millie the Model page he drew. 

In fact, this issue may be unique in Marvel Age history. Only issue #138, which followed the death of Jack Kirby, comes close to the depth that this issue provides. 

Marvel Age #22

Price: $0.35 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: October 9, 1984

Cover date: January, 1985

Copyright © 1984 Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation. 

• Jim Shooter: Editor in Chief

• Jim Salicrup: Editor and Design Director

• Sandy Hausler: Assistant Editor

• Norman Gosney: Designer

• Dwight Jon Zimmerman: Coming Attractions

• Dan Crespi: Art/Production Coordinator

• Ron Zalme: Assistant Art/Production Coordinator

• Harry Candelario, Rob Carosella, Phil Felix, Morrie Kuramoto, Ken Lopez, John Morelli, 

  and Barry Shapiro: Production

• Brenda Mings: Typesetter

• Paul Becton, Ken Feduniewicz, and George Roussos: Colorists

• Craig Anderson and Lynn Cohen: Friendly Assistance 

• John Romita: Cover 

• Carol Kalish: Direct Sales Manager

• Peter David: Assistant Direct Sales Manager

• Steve Saffel: Assistant Promotions Manager for Direct Sales

• Irving Forbush: Official Marvel Mascot

Front cover 

• Character: Sol Brodsky

 Inside front cover

• Ad for G.I. Joe Yearbook

 

Page 1

• Marvel Agenda (contents) 

• Masthead 

• Indicia 

Editorial by Jim Salicrup (untitled)

Pages 2 – 5

Marvel Comics Coming Attractions

Titles on sale October 23

• The Thing #20

• Daredevil #215

• New Mutants #24

• Red Sonja #6

• Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #10

• Iceman #2

• Beauty and the Beast #2

• Buckaroo Banzai #2

• Crash Ryan #3

Titles on sale October 30

• Spider-Man #261

• Captain America #302

• Power Pack #7

• Indiana Jones #26

• Micronauts #5

• Alpha Flight #19

• Dr. Strange #69

• Crystar #11

• Savage Sword of Conan #108

• Alien Legion #5

• Sisterhood of Steel #1

Titles on sale November 6

• Incredible Hulk #304

• Avengers #252

• Conan #167

• Marvel Tales #172

• X-Men #190

• Rom #63

• Power Man and Iron Fist #114

• G.I. Joe #34

• Kull the Conqueror #8

• Sheena of the Jungle (sic) #2

• Marvel Age Magazine #23

• Marvel Graphic Novel #14 -- Swashbucklers (sic) 

Titles on sale November 13

• Fantastic Four #275

• Iron Man #191

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #99

• Defenders #140

• Thor #352

• Starriors #4

• Kitty and Wolverine (sic) #4

• Marvel Team-Up #150

• Star Wars #92

• Doctor Who #5

• Dreadstar #16

• Time Spirits #2

Pages 6 - 7

More Coming Attractions

Shipping in November

• The Thing #21

• Daredevil #216

• New Mutants #25

• Red Sonja #7

• Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #11

• Conan the King #27

• G.I. Joe Yearbook #1

• Crash Ryan #4

• Starstruck #1

• Amazing Spider-Man #262

• Captain America #303

• Indiana Jones #27

• Power Pack #8

• Micronauts #6

• Alpha Flight #20

• Transformers #4

• Conan the Destroyer #2

• Groo (sic) #1

• Savage Sword of Conan #109

• Swashbucklers (sic) #1

• Marvel Super Special #36 -- Dune

• Marvel Age Magazine #24

• Incredible Hulk #305

• Avengers #253

• Conan #168

• Marvel Tales #173

• X-Men #191

• Rom #64

• Power Man and Iron Fist #115

• G.I. Joe #33

• Marvel Fanfare #19

• Void Indigo #2

• Fantastic Four #276

• Iron Man #192

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #100

• The New Defenders #141

• Star Wars #93

• Thor #353

• Kitty and Wolverine (sic) #5

• Doctor Who #5

• Coyote #10

• Epic Illustrated #28

Titles shipping in December

• The Thing #22

• Daredevil #217

• New Mutants #26

• Web of Spider-Man #1

• Red Sonja #8

• Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #12

• Iceman #3

• Beauty and the Beast #3

• Amazing Spider-Man #263

• Captain America #304

• Indiana Jones #28

• Power Pack #9

• Micronauts #7

• Alpha Flight #21

• Dr. Strange #70

• Groo (sic) #2

• Dune #1

• Savage Sword of Conan #110

• Dreadstar #17

• Alien Legion #6

• Sisterhood of Steel #2

• Incredible Hulk #306

• Avengers #254

• Conan #169

• Marvel Tales #174

• X-Men #192

• Rom #65

• Power Man and Iron Fist #116

• G.I. Joe #34

• Kull the Conqueror #9

• Marvel Age Magazine #25

• Fantastic Four #277

• Iron Man #193

• Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #101

• The New Defenders #142

• Star Wars #92

• Thor #352

• Kitty and Wolverine (sic) #6

• Spider-Man Index #1

• Doctor Who #6

• Time Spirits #3

Page 8

Newswatch

Item: Transformers will get an ongoing series.

Item: Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, will get his own series.

Item: X-Men #193 will be a double-sized issue celebrating 100 issues since the debut of the new team. Issue #195 will be a crossover with Power Pack. And the X-Men will appear in Marvel Team-Up #150.

Item: The Gladiators, from the pages of the Beauty and the Beast miniseries, will appear in New Mutants #28 and 29, which guest-star the Dazzler and will be drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz.

Item: Marvel is publishing the first in a series of indices in December, starring Spider-Man and featuring a cover by John Byrne.

Item: Jim Owsley will take over as writer of Conan the Barbarian with issue #172. 

Item: Gordy, agent of S.M.I.L.E. (Special Military Intelligence Law Enforcement division) will return in Power Man and Iron Fist #114. Also, issues #114 and 115 will have covers by John Byrne. 

Pages 9 - 11

Article: "The Iceman Cometh," by Sandy Hausler

Page 12

Stan Lee's message about the death of Sol Brodsky

Pages 13 - 25

Article: "Sol Brodsky Remembered," by Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Pages 26 - 28

Article: "The Marvel Age -- 1966 (Part V)," by Warren Reece

Page 29

Bullpen Bulletins 

Pages 30 - 32

Letters column: "Mail from Marvelites," suggested by Todd Wages

Inside back cover

Ad for the Star Comics line

Back cover

Ad for Groo the Wanderer