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A mere 27 years after his debut in Avengers #9, Wonder Man finally got his own solo series in 1991. The series would go on to run 29 issues, with guest-appearances by Spider-Man, the Hulk, and others. And this would be the first – and only – issue of Marvel Age to feature a multi-panel cover, the result of four sketches that were all judged to be too good to not use! 

Even though there's a picture of Stan Lee with Ronald Reagan in this issue's Stan's Soapbox column, there's no mention of Rockin' Ronnie on the page, so we don't know what the occasion was. Too bad!  

And even though it's been eight months since Captain America graced the cover of Marvel Age for his big 50th anniversary, this new issue features an article about Cap's Sentinel of Liberty series, coming out at last. 

Marvel Age #103

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)
On sale: June 18, 1991
Cover date: August 1991
Copyright © 1991 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead
• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief
• Mark Gruenwald: Executive Editor
• Carl Potts: Epic Executive Editor
• Jim Salicrup: Supreme Marvel Zombie
• Mike Lackey: Assistant Editor
• Cindy Emmett and Dawn Geiger: Designers
• Fred Hembeck: Sage of Marvel Age
• Mindy Fisch, Sholly Fisch and Dwight Jon Zimmerman: Contributing Editors
• Craig Anderson, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Bob Budiansky, Bobbie Chase, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Suzanne Dell'Orto, Barry Dutter, Eric Fein, Danny Fingeroth, Suzanne Gaffney, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Len Kaminski, Terry Kavanagh, Kevin Kobasic, John Lewandowski, Howard Mackie, Marc McLaurin, Al Milgrom, Sarra Mossoff, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Mike Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Rob Tokar, Renée Witterstaeter, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors
• John Romita: Art Director
• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director
• Bud LaRosa, Hope Perelman, Bob Petrecca, and Kevin Tinsley: The Raiders
• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager
• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager 
• Lynda Strunk: Typesetter
• Jack Abel: World's Toughest Proofreader
• Ron Aikens, Steve Alexandrov, Dahlia Aponte, Paul Becton, Steve Bunche, Rob Carosella, Chris Eliopoulos, Vince Evans, Jesus Gonzalez, Ed Lazellari, Ariane Lenshoek, Gabrielle Macari, Edward Murr, Bettie Ringma, George Roberts, George Roussos, and Davide Sharpe: Production
• Jeff Johnson and Terry Austin: Cover artists
• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist
• Christopher Ebel: Manufacturing Coordinator
• Christine Aurilia, Al Bensew, Meg Brennan, Paula Butterworth, Paul Curtis, Arthur Parris Jackson, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Anna Mazzarelli, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Stu Schwartzberg, Dan Scott, and Christine Slusarz: Friendly Assistance
• Karen Corbo, Carol Platt, and Vivian O'Brien: Rights and Permissions
• Carol Kalish: V.P./New Product Development 
• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Publications Editor
• Victoria Schodowski: Administrative Assistant 
• Lou Bank: Assistant Direct Sales Manager Customer Service
• Sven Larsen: Director of Direct Sales/Direct Market
• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager/Retail Liaison 
• Steve Saffel: Promotion Manager 
• Dana Moreshead: Advertising Manager
• Irving Forbush: Way Out Wonder, Man
• Ralph Macchio: Wonder Editor

Salicup's Section

Pages 1 - 3
Mondo Marvel Comics 
Item: Coming soon, it's the Marvel Illustrated Swimsuit Special. 
Item: Coming soon, it's the Impossible Man Summer Special. 
Item: Coming soon, it's The Best of Marvel Comics trade paperback. 
Item: The double-sized Alpha Flight #100 will feature lots of guest stars. 
Item: Deathtrap: The Vault is a new graphic novel that pits Freedom Force, the Rhino and Venom against each other.

Marvel Top 100 List
February 1991
  1. Spider-Man #9
  2. New Mutants #100 
  3. X-Men #275
  4. Amazing Spider-Man #346
  5. Marvel Comics Presents #73
  6. Punisher War Journal #29
  7. Darkhawk #2
  8. Marvel Comics Presents #74
  9. Ghost Rider #12
  10. X-Factor #13
Page 4
Epic-Grams

Art by Mike Kazaleh

Page 5
Article: "The Transmutation of Ike Garuda," by Charles S. Novinskie

Art by James Sherman

Pages 6 - 7
Article: "Alien Legion: Tenants of Hell," by Tom Daning

Pages 8 - 9
Article: "The Adventures of Captain America, Sentinel of Liberty," by Suzanne Gaffney 

Art by Kevin Maguire

Pages 10 - 11
Andy Mangels' Reel Marvel

Pages 12 - 13
Marvel Licensing: New PVCs and Porcelain Bisques

Wolverine, Storm, Gambit and Cable sketches by Ron Frenz and Rodney Ramos


Hulk sketch by John Romita Sr. 

Page 14
Stan's Soapbox

Willie Lumpkin by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo


Page 15
The Many Faces of The Vision 

Pages 16 - 17
Hembeck's Page in Marvel Age 

Page 18 
Marvel Trivia Quiz

Pages 19 - 20 
Article: "Wonder Man," by Mike Lackey

Pages 21 - 25
Preview: Wonder Man #1

Pages 26 - 27
The Marvel Age of Comics: 1984 Part Three

Pages 28 - 29
Mark's Remarks 

Pages 30 - 32
Letters column: "It's Mailer Time" 

Inside back cover
Marvel Age Super Shopper Gallery 

Back cover
The 1991 Marvel Age Calendar: July 
Writer: Mike Lackey
Artist: Ron Zalme
Colorist: Renée Witterstaetter


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