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Marvel Age #109 salutes comic book inkers - at least two of them! - in issue #109. Ernie Chan and Joe Sinnott both get their due, and those pages include art they pencilled and inked - because like many of the very best inkers in the field, these guys are great pencil artists as well. 

Also in this issue, Mark's Remarks continues to cover New Talent Department submissions, in this case a plot by Jean-Jacques Dzialowski, with some art by Gerald Teon Walker. 

And this is the final Christmas issue of Marvel Age to feature a Groo cover by Sergio Aragones (or anyone else, for that matter). Sad! 

Marvel Age #109

Price: $1.00 US 

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)
On sale: December 17, 1991
Cover date: February 1992 
Copyright © 1991 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

Inside front cover 

Masthead
• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief
• Mark Gruenwald: Executive Editor
• Carl Potts: Epic Executive Editor
• Bob Budiansky, Executive Editor, Special Projects
• Renée Witterstaeter: Editor
• Mike Lackey: Associate Editor
• Steve Alexandrov: Designer
• Fred Hembeck: Sage of Marvel Age
• Dwight Jon Zimmerman: Contributing Editors
• Craig Anderson, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Barry Dutter, Eric Fein, Danny Fingeroth, Suzanne Gaffney, Pat Garrahy, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Len Kaminski, Terry Kavanagh, Kevin Kobasic, John Lewandowski, Marc McLaurin, Al Milgrom, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Mike Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Rob Tokar, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors
• John Romita: Art Director
• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director
• John Kalisz, Bud LaRosa, and Kevin Tinsley: The Raiders
• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager
• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager 
• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetter
• Jack Abel: World's Toughest Proofreader
• Dahlia Aponte, Darren Auck, John Babcock, Paul Becton, Steve Bunche, Joe Caponsacco, Rob Carosella, Steve Dutro, Cindy Emmert, Vince Evans, Jesus Gonzalez, Jim Hoston, Michael Kraiger, Ed Lazellari, Ariane Lenshoek, Edward Murr, Jared Osborn, George Roberts, Joe Rosas, George Roussos, and Davide Sharpe: Production
• Sergio Aragones: Cover artist
• Christopher Ebel: Manufacturing Coordinator
• Christine Aurilia, Al Bensew, Paul Curtis, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Anna Mazzarelli, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Stu Schwartzberg, Dan Slott, and Christine Slusarz: Friendly Assistance
• Karen Corbo, Carol Platt, and Vivian O'Brien: Rights and Permissions
• Skip Dietz: Co-op Field Rep Coordinator
• Victoria Schodowski: Administrative Assistant/Direct Market
• Lou Bank: Director of Sales/Direct Market
• Sven Larsen: Direct Sales Manager/Distributor Liaison 
• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager
• Craig Kunaschk: Publications Editor
• Kevin Tang: Publications Assistant Editor
• Steve Saffel: Promotion Manager 
• Dana Moreshead: Advertising Manager
• Irving Forbush: Fool of Xmas Past  
• Ralph Macchio: Senior Editor

Witterstaeter's Witticisms

Pages 1 - 5
Mondo Marvel Comics 

Item: Coming soon, it's the Marvel Holiday Special!
Item: Stan Lee made an appearance at a Manhattan bookstore to sign Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics.
Item: Fans sent in clippings about Marvel from Interview Magazine and USA Today. 
Item: WAM! membership kits are shipping now!
Item: Horizon Hobbies has super hero models, including the new one of Iron Man. 
Item: The Marvel Halloween party was held on October 25. 
Item: Marvel Age will have a full report on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, including the Spider-Man balloon, next issue. 
Item: Remember Jim Salicrup's ant farm? No? Well, sadly, the ants all died. 
Item: Coming soon:
    • Operation Galactic Storm starts in Captain America #398
    • Rocky and Bullwinkle TPB
    • Hawkeye TPB
    • Spider-Man Vs. Venom TPB
    • Spider-Man: Torment TPB
    • X-Men: From the Ashes TPB 
    • The Punisher: Return to Big Nothing original graphic novel
    • Fantastic Four bookshelf edition reprinting issues #347 - 349
    • Punisher: War Zone, a new series
    • Emperor Doom original graphic novel
    • Rick Mason, Secret Agent original graphic novel
    • Boys' Ranch by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby hardcover
Item: Marvel Tales now features new covers by folks like Klaus Janson and George Pérez
Item: Marvel recently celebrated Joe Sinnott's 65th birthday with a lunch at the America Café. 


Page 6
Stan's Soapbox

Willie Lumpkin, by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo


Page 7
Marvel Trivia Quiz

Pages 8 - 11
"The Amazing Chan," interview by Barry Dutter


Pages 12 - 14
Article: "Orchestrating Chaos: Developing Operation Galactic Storm," by Nel Yomtov 

Page 15
Great Moments in Marvel History

Pages 16 - 17 
Hembeck's Page in Marvel Age

Page 18 - 20 
Mark's Remarks 

Page 21 - 25
"The Joe Sinnott Interview," by Mike Lackey 



Pages 26 - 27 
Andy Mangel's Reel Marvel

Pages 28 - 29
The Marvel Age of Comics: 1985 Part IV

Pages 30 - 31
Letters page: "Shinny Shan Tobby!" 

Page 32
Assistant Editor Cards - Batch the First! 

Inside back cover
The Marvel Checklist 

Back cover
The 1992 Marvel Age Calendar: January 
By Mike Lackey and Darren Auck



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