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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 
Copyright © 1993 Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. 

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 


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