Cover Dated March 1984
Cover by Mike Zeck
That is my favorite cover of Secret Wars, just because it has Kitty Pryde, who will not physically appear in the story itself. Imagine how much better it would have been! She doesn’t made it, sadly, to the official cover.
Which is a huge shame! She isn’t even swapped out for anyone, we just get to see Nightcrawler’s heels! Which means, whenever there is a Secret Wars 1 homage cover, Kitty is never represented. Which yes, I would have gone insane buying all of those homage covers if she was included.
The Kitty image is also shown at the back of Fantastic Four 265, as an upcoming comic but since I own this issue, I don’t really need to keep that Fantastic Four issue for the exact same reason.
Comics on Sale
February 28
Daredevil 207
New Mutants 16
Kitty Pryde and Wolverine 2
Amazing Spider-Man 253
Indiana Jones 18
March 13
Incredible Hulk 296
Avengers 244
Conan 159
X-Men 182
Marvel Age 15
Alpha Flight 11
What If 45, Hulk went Berserk (as that never happened!?!)
Beauty and the Beast 2
March 20
Fantastic Four 267
Marvel Team-Up 142
Spectacular Spider-Man 91
Newswatch
Iron Man : Demon in a Bottle is coming to trade! As is X-Men’s Phoenix trade.
Official Marvel Comics Personnel Pronunciation Guide
Byrne : burn
Buscema : byoo-SEM-ma
DeMatteis – de-MAT-is
Gice – gice
Janson – JON-sen
Macchio – MA-kee-o
Moench – mench
Nocenti – no-SEN-tee
Orzechowski – or-ze-COW-skee
Salicrup – SAL-i-krupp
Sienkiewicz – sin-KEY-ich
Wiacek – WY-a-check
Top Ten – March 1983
- X-Men 167 (Paul Smith!)
- Fantastic Four 252
- Amazing Spider-Man 238
- Avengers 229
- Daredevil 192
- Spectacular Spider-Man 76
- Conan 144
- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 3
- Marvel Team-Up 127
- Incredible Hulk 281
There is a Secret Wars feature, naturally. Lockheed the Dragon, is mention as a participant. There are preliminary sketches of Spider-Man’s new costume. Mostly, instead of a white spider motif it would have been red. Except for the eyes. Kitty is not listed as a hero.
There is an A-Team story.
On the Letters page, four X-Men’s heads are shown – Cyclops, Colossus, Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler. I like how, at the time the letters page, Notes from Nuts, was written, the miniseries was going to be titled – Ariel and Wolverine. That wouldn’t have been as good. I’m pretty certain those heads are drawn by Paul Smith.
No birthdays, sadly
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Happy 4th of July, everybody! Be careful out there!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 