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Marvel was never shy about repeating successes, so it was almost inevitable that Iron Man's Armor Wars storyline would be followed by Armor Wars II. This time around, the event was written by John Byrne, with John Romita Jr. still going strong on pencils. 

And in the age of Ralph Bakshi's "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" Saturday morning animated series, Marvel landed the rights to do a Mighty Mouse comic - but judging by the preview in this issue of Marvel Age, it didn't make things nearly as wacky and bizarre as the Saturday morning cartoon series did. 

Plus, Nomad gets his own hard-hitting miniseries by friends of the blog Fabian Nicieza, James Fry, and Mark McKenna! 

Marvel Age #92

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)
On sale: July 17, 1990
Cover date: September 1990 
Copyright © 1990 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead
• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief
• Mark Gruenwald: Executive Editor
• Ralph Macchio: Senior Editor 
• Carl Potts: Epic Executive Editor
• John Romita Jr. and John Byrne: Cover artists
• Jim Salicrup: Supreme Marvel Zombie
• Tom Daning: Assistant Editor
• Steve Alexander: Designer
• Barry Dutter, Sholly Fisch and Dwight Jon Zimmerman: Contributing Editors
• Craig Anderson, Gary Barnum, Tom Brevoort, Bob Budiansky, Bobbie Chase, Kelly Corvette, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Suzanne Dell Orto, Eric Fein, Danny Fingeroth, Suzanne Gaffney, Bob Harras, Michael Heisler, Marie Javins, Len Kaminski, Terry Kavanagh, Howard Mackie, Marc McLaurin, Al Milgrom, Mike Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Rob Tokar, Renée Witterstaeter, and Gregory Wright: Consulting Editors
• John Romita: Art Director
• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director
• Joe Rosas, Mickey Ritter, and Brad Vancata: The Raiders
• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager
• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager 
• Joyce Phua: Assistant Traffic Manager
• Lynda Strunk: Typesetter
• Jack Abel: World's Toughest Proofreader
• Dahlia Aponte, Darren Auck, Paul Becton, Steve Bunche, Rob Carosella, Michael Chesworth, Chris Eliopolous, Cindy Emmert, Vince Evans, Jesus Gonzalez, Brad K. Joyce, Ed Lazellari, Ariane Lenshoek, Edward Murr, Jared Osborn, Betty Ringmus, and George Roberts: Production
• Gregory WrightColorist
• Glenn Herdling: Manufacturing Coordinator
• Christine Aurilia, Paula Butterworth, Dwight Coye, Arthur Parris Jackson, John Lewandowski, George Roussos, Stu Schwartzberg, and Christine Slusarz: Friendly Assistance 
• Kay Shadley: Rights and Permissions Editor
• Denise Bove: Vice President/Director of Newsstand Sales
• Jim Sokolowski: National Key Account Manager
• Cindy Marenda: Sales Administrator
• Carol Kalish: Vice President Direct Sales
• Kurt Busiek: Direct Sales Project Manager
• Victoria Schodowski: Administrative Assistant 
• Lou Bank: Assistant Direct Sales Manager Customer Service
• Sven Larsen: Direct Sales Assistant Manager
• Steve Saffel: Promotion Manager 
• Fabian Nicieza: Advertising Manager
• Irving Forbush: Upstaged by a Mouse

Salicup's Section

Marvel Agenda 

Pages 1 - 6
Marvel Coming Attractions

Titles on sale August 28
The Avengers #324
Avengers West Coast #63
Camp Candy #6
Captain America #378
Daredevil #285
Namor the Sub-Mariner #7
The Punisher #40
Web of Spider-Man #69
X-Men #269
Marvel Comics Presents #60
What The—?! #9
Sensational She-Hulk #20
Stalkers #7
Excalibur #29
Foolkiller #1
Elsewhere Prince #6
Captain America Movie Special (B&W magazine)
Captain America Movie Special (color comic) 
The Thanos Quest #2
Espers trade paperback 

Titles on sale September 4
Alf #34
Amazing Spider-Man #340
Avengers Spotlight #37
Bruce Force #3
Groo the Wanderer #70
Heathcliff #52
Mighty Mouse #1
New Mutants #94
Quasar #15
Thor #424
Alpha Flight #89
Power Pack #59
Interface #6
Wolverine #32
The Punisher Magazine #15
Savage Sword of Conan #178
Strip #14
Ghost Rider #6
Black Panther #1
Seven Block #1
Captain America trade paperback (collecting #247 - 255) 
Fred Hembeck Sells the Marvel Universe #1

Titles on sale September 11
The Avengers #325
Captain America limited series #1
Conan the Barbarian #237
G.I. Joe #105
Guardians of the Galaxy #5
The Incredible Hulk #374
Marvel Age Magazine #93
Marvel Tales #242
The Punisher #41
Silver Surfer #42
Marvel Comics Presents #61
What If...? #18
Hero #6
Robocop #8
Shield #16
Excalibur #30
Spider-Man #3
Hollywood Superstars #2
Street Poet Ray #4
Deathlok #4
Doctor Who #164
Marvel Masterworks #12: The X-Men (#101 - 110) 

Titles on sale September 18
Fantastic Four #345
Spectacular Spider-Man #169
Iron Man #261
New Warriors #4
Thor #425
Transformers #71
X-Factor #59
X-Men Classic #52
Cloak and Dagger #14
Marvel Fanfare #53
Conan Saga #43
Marvel Requirer #7
Akira #24
Wild Cards #2
Punisher: Kingdom Gone hardcover
Moon Knight #19
Pendragon #3
Dr. Strange #22
The Punisher War Journal #23
The 'Nam #49
Strip #15

Page 5
Super-Villain Checklist

Pages 6 - 8
Newswatch
Item: Death's Head graphic novel, coming soon, will reveal DH's origin. 
Item: New miniseries Pendragon from Marvel U.K. modernizes British mythology and stars Captain Britain and others. 
Item: Seven Block is a one-shot from Epic Comics by Chuck Dixon and Jorge Zaffino about a maximum security prison and germ warfare experiments 

Page 6
Marvel Top Ten
April 1990
1 - X-Men #262
2 - Amazing Spider-Man #333
3 - Wolverine #25
4 - Punisher Annual #3
5 - X-Factor #55
6 - Excalibur #23
7 - Punisher War Journal #19
8 - Punisher #334
9 - Ghost Rider #2
10 - Guardians of the Galaxy #1 

Pages 6 - 7 
Marvel Trivia Quiz 

Page 8
Profile: Jim Starlin 
Page 9 
Mark's Remarks

Page 10
Article: Mighty Mouse, by Tom Daning

Pages 11 - 13
Mighty Mouse preview

Page 14
The Many Faces of Wolverine 

Page 15
Stan's Soapbox

Willie Lumpkin by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo 

Pages 16 - 17
Hembeck's Page in Marvel Age

Pages 18 - 20
The Mutant Report: The Mutant List, by Peter Sanderson 

Pages 21 - 23 
Article: The Armor Wars II, by John Salerno 

Page 24
Article: Darkman (no writer credit) 

Page 25
Article: Nomad, by Dwight Jon Zimmerman 

Pages 26 - 27
The Marvel Age of Comics: 1982 Part Two, by Brian Nelson 

Marvel Comics Price Guide

Pages 28 - 29
New Talent Department: Patrick Archibald 


Pages 30 - 32
Letters Column: Until-Self Verbalizes Normally -- Make Self's Marvel


Inside back cover
Marvel Age Super Shopper Gallery 

Back cover
The 1990 Marvel Age Calendar: August
Writers: Chris Eliopolous and Barry Dutter
Artist: Ron Zalme
Colorist: (credit missing) 



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