Make Mine Marvel Age: May 2025

Thursday, May 29, 2025

With Daredevil's big 30th anniversary right around the corner, Marvel Age #127 unveiled the new miniseries Daredevil: The Man without Fear. Written by Frank Miller with art by John Romita Jr. and Al Williamson, the story explored DD's early days as he trained with Stick to master his new, ultra-sensitive senses.

Also in this issue, a Marvel Movie Update talks up a possible Doctor Strange movie to be directed by Wes Craven, as well as an equally theoretical Black Panther movie to star Wesley Snipes. The article mentions a Blade movie but says it could star L.L. Cool. J. The article goes on to mention the new Marvel Films, with Avi Arad as President and CEO.

And the continuing merry-go-round of articles about Marvel licensed projects lands this month on X-Men anniversary holograms.

Marvel Age #127

Price: $1.00 US

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: June 15, 1993

Cover date: August 1993

Inside front cover

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Jim Hoston: Designers

• Greg Capullo, Kevin Conrad, and Christopher Ebel: Front cover artists

• Frank Miller: Back cover artist

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Karl Bollers, Tom Brevoort, Lynaire Brust, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Michael Kraiger, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Carlos Lopez, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matthew Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Kevin Somers, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel, Flo Steinberg: Proofreaders

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Loretta Krol, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• John Bligh, Steve Bunche, Sergio Cariello, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowski, Spencer Lamm, Edward Murr, and Thomas Velasquez: Mechanical Artists

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Kevin Wiechmann: Mac Coordinator

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Holly Joyner, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Gary Guzzo: Publicity Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Heidi Balaban, Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Editor without Fear

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• Coming soon, it's Magneto #0 - free to readers to buy all five X books in July.

• Coming soon, it's the four-issue miniseries Thor Corps, by Tom DeFalco and Pat Olliffe.

• The animated Spider-Man TV series joins the Fox Kids Network for the 1994 - 1995 season.

• Marvel has acquired a 46 percent share of Toy Biz.

• Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the X-Men, it's the X-Men 30th Anniversary Magazine.

• Proceeds from the Spider-Man Special Edition: The Trial of Venom raised more than $500,000 for Unicef.

• Quasar #50 will be a 48-page special with (what else?) a gold foil cover.

Pages 4 - 6

Article: "Marvel and the Video Game Revolution Part 2," by Joe Caponsacco

Page 7

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 8 - 11

Article: "Midnight Sons: Road to Terror," by Steve Vrattos

Pages 12 - 15

Article: "Daredevil" The Man Without Fear," by Anya Martin

Pages 16 - 17

Marvel Movie Update, by Tom Russo

Pages 18 - 22

Article: "3-D Mutants," by Christopher Ebel

Page 23

Hembeck's Page

Pages 24 - 25

Mark's Remarks

Page 25

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Pages 26 - 28

Hot Sheet, by Jerry A. Novick

Pages 29 - 30

Letters Column: "Marvel Aged to Perfection"

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist - July

Inside back cover

July calendar

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Marvel had licensed out its characters for trading cards and collectibles in recent years, so it was only a matter of time before they rolled a line of video games. To up the ante, this issue of Marvel Age invites readers to take part in a video game giveaway sweepstakes. Readers could win games from Acclaim or Sega just by sending in their name, age, and address.

Also in this issue, it's Clive Barker's Razorline of exciting new comics, plus Marvel U.K.'s Frontier Comics -–not to mention the big crossover between The Punisher and Venom. As if things weren't hot enough already, there was the big Marvel Swimsuit Special, which mostly featured on illustrated heroes, but also made room for Marvel designer and sometime model Dawn Geiger.

Marvel Age #126

Price: $1.00 US

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: May 18, 1993

Cover date: July 1993

Inside front cover

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Heidi Balaban and Joe Kaufman: Additional design

• Tom Raney, Mark McKenna, and Joe Caponsacco: Front cover artists

• Mark McLaurin, Mark Pacella, Steve Skroce, Bob Dvorak, Anthony Williams, Arthur Nichols, Max Douglas and Mike Kraiger: Back cover artists

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Lynaire Brust, Karl Bollers, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Carlos Lopez, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matt Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Lisa Patrick, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Cenobite

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the X-Men with limited edition collector pin sets.

• Coming soon, it's the Midnight Sons trade paperback and the new Morbius miniseries.

• Deadpool gets his first miniseries in June, by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Joe Madureira.

• The original horse-riding Ghost Rider returns in an upcoming miniseries written by Da Slott and drawn by Dick Ayers.

• Coming soon, it's the 1993 Marvel Swimsuit Special.

Pages 4 - 5

Mark's Remarks

Page 5

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Pages 6 - 11

Article: "Razorline: An Interview with Clive Barker," by Tom Russo

Pages 12 - 14

Article: "Jump into the Pyre," by Robert Sodaro

Page 15

Hembeck's Page

Pages 16 - 19

Article: "Marvel Frontier Comics," by Frank Plowright

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "Let the Games Begin," by Joe Caponsacco

Page 23

Epicenter, by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 24 - 26

Hot Sheet, by Jerry A. Novick

Page 27

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 28 - 30

Letters Column: "The Letter Column"

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

June calendar

Thursday, May 15, 2025

If you want to get to know Fabian Nicieza - and honestly, who doesn't? - this is the Marvel Age issue for you. Fabian sits down for an interview about his writing projects, complete with family pictures, behind the scenes art and more.

Plus, Marvel strikes a publishing deal with a Japanese firm and sends Stan Lee and Spider-Man to seal the deal, and Mike Baron teams up with Mark Nelson for the very cool looking Epic series Feud. And Warlock is back in The Infinity Crusade, where he has to deal with his "confusing and aimless" existence as an omnipotent god. Tell me about it, brother...

Marvel Age #125

Price: $1.00 US

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: April 20, 1993

Cover date: June 1993

Inside front cover

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Dwayne Turner, Chris Ivey, and Joseph Caponsacco: Front cover artists

• Eliot Brown, Darick Robertson, Larry Mahlstedt, and Michael Kraiger: Back cover artists

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Heidi Balaban: Additional Design

• Craig Anderson, Joe Andreani, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Karl Bollers, Joey Cavalieri, Bobbie Chase, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Eric Fein, James Felder, Danny Fingeroth, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Bob Harras, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Scott Koblish, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ericka T. Moran, Johnny Greene, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Susan Crespi, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Arthur Weiner: MIS Director

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Holly Joyner, Barry Kaplan, Joe Kaufman, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Freddie Mendez, Pam Rutt, Stu Schwartzberg, Phil Sheehy, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager / Retailers Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Thrasher

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

• The TV show Bob filmed part of an episode at the Buster Awards, with appearances by Sergio Aragonés, Bob Kane, Jack Kirby, Mel Lazarus, Jim Lee, Mark Silvestri and others.

• Marvel's holographic trading cards are coming soon.

• She-Hulk gets a new look courtesy of writer Michael Eury, penciller Todd Britton, and cover artist Adam Hughes.

• Coming soon from Marvel UK, look for new series Warheads: Black Dawn and Cyberspace 3000.

• Coming soon, it's The Survival Guide to The Mansion, taking readers inside the X-Men's HQ.

• Marvel launches Japanese publishing partnership with "Space Zero"

Pages 4 - 7

Article: "The Future of 2099," by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 8 - 10

Article: "Epicenter: Feud Sketchbook," by Randy Meredith

Pages 11 - 15

Article: "Hello, I Must Be Going: An Interview with Fabian Nicieza," by Steve Vrattos

Pages 16 - 17

Article: "The Hunt for Magneto," by Troy Hernon

Pages 18 - 19

Mark's Remarks

Page 19

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Pages 20 - 22

Article: "The Warlock Chronicles," by Sonja Ratcliffe

Page 23

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 24 - 26

Hot Sheet by Jerry A. Novick

Page 27

Hembeck's Page

Pages 28 - 30

Letters Column: "What If...There Was Not Letter Column?"

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

May 1993 calendar

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Marvel Age #124 looks at the next chapter of Jim Starlin's continuing cosmic journey across the Marvel Universe with The Infinity Crusade, as well as Epic's Heavy Hitters line, the latter of which featured Joe Kubert's first work for Marvel in close to 40 years. Hey, it helps if your sons are two of the publisher's hottest artists!

Also in this issue, Marvel promotes one of the weirdest licensed comics ever: Mad Dog, which spun out of the short-lived TV series Bob, starring Bob Newhart as comics artist Bob McKay. In the show, Bob created Mad Dog, which is revived by a new publisher who wants to make the characters less of a nice guy and more of a bloodthirsty vigilante. The comic reflected that by having two stories per issue: one written and drawn by Ty Templeton, starring the old version, and the other by writer Evan Dorkin and artist Gordon Purcell.

Also in this issue, readers learned about upcoming projects including The Trouble with Girls, a new Tor series by Joe Kubert, and Howard Chaykin's Midnight Men.

Marvel Age #124

Price: $1.00 US

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: March 16, 1993

Cover date: May 1993

Inside front cover

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Ron Lim, Terry Austin, and Michael Kraiger: Front cover artists

• Joe Kubert: Back cover artist

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Bobbie Chase, Danny Fingeroth and Bob Harras: Group Editors

• Craig Anderson, Richard Ashford, Tom Brevoort, Karl Bollers, Joey Cavalieri, Hector Collazo, Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Dan Cuddy, Don Daley, Tom Daning, Barry Dutter, Eric Fein, James Felder, Sholly Fisch, Suzanne Gaffney, Jaye Gardner, Pat Garrahy, Glenn Greenberg, Glenn Herdling, Marie Javins, Terry Kavanagh, Mike Lackey, John Lewandowski, Marc McLaurin, Hildy Mesnick, Matt Morra, Sarra Mossoff, Mindy Newell, Fabian Nicieza, Mark Powers, Michael Rockwitz, Evan Skolnick, Mort Todd, Rob Tokar, Tim Tuohy, David Wohl, and Nel Yomtov: Consulting Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Frank Percy, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ariane Lenshoek, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Steve Dutro, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Arthur Weiner: MIS Director

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Melisa Danon, Patricia Dazzo, Alison Gill, Gary Guzzo, Barry Kaplan, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager / Retailers Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Seth Deitchman: Assistant Co-op Manager

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• L. Dean Rohlfing: National Field Representative Coordinator

• Dan Lewis: Texas Field Representative

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Infinity Senior

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

Item: Spider-Man and the Punisher team up in Designer Genes, a one-shot by writer Terry Kavanaugh and artist Scott McDaniel.

Item: The story "For Love Nor Money" weaves through Terror Inc. #11, Cage #15, Silver Sable #13, Terror Inc. #12, Cage #16, and Silver Sable #14.

Item: Death3 is a four-issue miniseries coming soon from Marvel UK, featuring three different Death's Heads.

Item: Coming soon, it's The Ren & Stimpy Show: The Big Bugger, collecting the first four issues of the comics series.

Item: Moon Knight #50, Web of Spider-Man #100, Spectacular Spider-Man #200, and Uncanny X-Men #300 will all be extra-sized issues with holo-grafx foil covers.

Pages 4 - 6

Article: "Howling at the Moon: A Mad Dog Preview," by Andy Mangels

Page 7

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 8 - 11

Article: "Heavy Mettle," by Anya Martin

Pages 12 - 13

Article: "New Cards on the Block," by Karl Bollers

Pages 14 - 16

Hot Sheet

Pages 17 - 19

Article: "A Composition on the Conclusion of the Cosmic Crossover," by Doug Murray

Pages 20 - 21

Article: "Hangin' 10 with Norrin Radd," by Robert Sodaro

Pages 22 - 24

Article: "Civil War," by Kristin Sundin

Page 25

Epicenter, by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 26 - 27

Mark's Remarks

Page 27

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Page 28

Hembeck's Page

Page 29 - 30

Letters column: "Mutants, Mutants Everywhere, But Not a One to See"

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

April 1993 calendar

Thursday, May 1, 2025

We haven't heard much about the Mighty Thor lately in Marvel Age, but that all changes in Marvel Age #123, which looks at the new series Thunderstrike in both a feature article and this month's "Tom Talks" column, by editor in chief and series writer Tom DeFalco.

But the god of thunder isn't alone, because this issue also presents Cable in his own series, along with the Maximum Carnage event, and the latest on Avengers West Coast with returning Avengers scribe Roy Thomas.

Marvel Age #123

Price: $1.00 US

Pages: 36 (32 interior plus four covers)

On sale: February 16, 1993

Cover date: April 1993

Inside front cover

Masthead

• Tom DeFalco: Editor in Chief

• Mark Gruenwald: Senior Executive Editor

• Carl Potts: Marvel Executive Editor, Epic

• Bob Budiansky, Marvel Executive Editor, Special Projects

• Steve Saffel: Editor

• Lia Pelosi: Editorial Assistant

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Designers

• Ron Frenz and Al Milgrom Front cover artists

• Tom Lyle and Michael Kraiger: Back cover artists

• Joe Caponsacco and Michael Kraiger: Cover colorists

• Renée Witterstaeter: Colorist

• Bobbie Chase, Danny Fingeroth and Bob Harras: Group Editors

• John Romita: Art Director

• Steve Geiger: Managing Art Director

• Frank Percy, Kris Renkewitz, and Bill Wylie: The Raiders

• Joe Kaufman: Book Designer

• Virginia Romita: Traffic/Production Manager

• Dawn Geiger: Assistant Production Manager/Designer

• Daniel Carr, Maria Parwulski: Typesetters

• Jack Abel: Proofreader

• Cindy Emmert: Designer

• Paul Becton: Color Corrections

• George Roussos: Cover Colorist

• Steve Alexandrov, Ariane Lenshoek, and Kevin Tinsley: Cover Coordinators

• Rob Carosella and Jesus Gonzalez: Camera Technicians

• Darren Auck, Jon Babcock, Steve Dutro, Ed Lazellari, and Davide Sharpe: Letterers

• Steve Bunche, Johnny R. Greene, Jim Hoston, Jerry Kalinowsky, and Edward Murr: Mechanical Artists

• Arthur Weiner: MIS Director

• Judy Sottile: MIS Manager

• Christopher Ebel and Freddie Mendez: Manufacturing Coordinators

• Dahlia Aponte, Christine Aurilia, Bernadette Ayala, Heidi Balaban, Al Bensew, Mark Bernardo, Dan Buckley, Paul Curtis, Patricia Dazzo, Stephanie Fogle, Alison Gill, Barry Kaplan, Josie McCain, Tony Matias, Mary "Mac" McPherson, Pam Rutt, Marti Silber, Jeff Simons, Christina Slusarz, and Sam Springle: Friendly Assistance

• Jackie Aguila, Karen Corbo, and Carol Platt: Rights and Permissions

• Lou Bank: Director of Sales / Direct Market

• Skip Dietz: Direct Sales Manager / Co-op Field Rep Coordinator

• Dean Rohlfing: Direct Sales Manager / Distributor Liaison

• Bruce G. Costa: Direct Sales Manager / Retailers Liaison

• Craig Kunaschk: Assistant Distributor Liaison

• Geri-Lynn Buckholz: Assistant Retailer Liaison

• Kevin Tang: Catalog Editor

• Terry Hernon: Direct Sales Copywriter

• Georgiana White: Customer Service

• Andrea Goldberg: Mid-West Field Representative

• Mike Martin: West Coast Field Representative

• Jim Sokolowski: Director of Sales / Newsstand

• Bob Kerekes: Manager of Business Development

• Laurie Stecky: Assistant Marketing Manager Newsstand Sales

• Cynthia LeBron: Newsstand Sales Administrator

• Scott Donigian: Distribution Representative on the Northern Road

• Craig McWilliams: Distribution Representative on the Southern Road

• Matt Ragone: Director of Specialty Sales

• Sven Larsen: Marketing Manager

• Jim Brennan: Advertising and Promotion Manager

• Tammy Brown: Advertising Manager

• Dana Moreshead and Mariano Nicieza: Advertising Art Directors

• Ralph Macchio: Senior Myth

Editorial

Contents

Pages 1 - 3

Up Front, by Matt Morra

Item: Toy Biz introduces new X-Men action figures at Toy Fair 1993.

Item: Coming soon, it's X-Men Unlimited, a new series with longer stories and page counts.

Item: Update on the Darkhold storyline and how it's a good jumping on point.

Item: 1993 Annuals will feature the debuts of new characters.

Item: USAGent gets his own limited series by Mark Gruenwald and M.C. Wyman.

Item: Deathlok #25 features the finale of the "Panther's Legacy" story.

Pages 4 - 5

Mark's Remarks

Pages 6 - 9

Article: "Thunder Strike: Lightning Strikes Twice," by Tom Russo

Page 10

Hembeck's Page in Marvel Age

Page 11

Stan's Soapbox

Pages 12 - 14

Article: "Cable Redemption for the Future," by Randy Meredith

Page 15

Epicenter by Paula C. Foye

Pages 16 - 17

Article: "Maximum Carnage: A Guide to the Spidey / Venom / Carnage Crossover," by Lia M. Pelosi

Pages 18 - 20

Hot Sheet

Pages 21 - 24

Article: "Earth's Mightiest Heroes in the Sun," by Steve Vrattos

Page 25

Personal Appearance Cards: A Whole New Game, by Sonja RatcliffePages 26 - 27

Tom Talks

Page 27

The Bossmen, by Rick Parker

Pages 28 - 30

Letters column: "Until Marvel Age Gets a Permanent Letter Column Title, Make Mine Marvel!"

Pages 31 - 32

Checklist

Inside back cover

Marvel 1993 calendar