Cover Dated March 1987
Coming Attractions
December 23
Daredevil 241 by Ann Nocenti, Todd MacFarlane and Al Williamson
GI Joe Special Missions 4
Strikeforce : Morituri 5
New Mutants 50 – Xavier returns and the team fights Magus by Chris Claremont, Jackson Guice and John Beatty
Avengers vs X-Men 1
December 30
Alpha Flight 45 by Bill Mantlo, June Brigman and Whilce Portacio
GI Joe and the Transformers 4
Fallen Angels 1 by Jo Duffy, Kerry Gammill and Tom Palmer
Power Pack 29
Fantastic Four vs the X-Men 3 by Chris Claremont, Jon Bogdanove and Terry Austin. I did not realize that the FF and Avengers versus minis came out at the same time, as the the X-Men are radically different, at this time.
January 6
Marvel Age 49
Uncanny X-Men 216 by Chris Claremont, Jackson Guice and Dan Green
GI Joe 58
The Nam 5
Elektra : Assassin 7
January 13
X-Factor 15 by Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson and Bob Wiacek
Classic X-Men 8 which reprints X-Men 100
Magik is shown to promote New Mutants 50!
Bullpen Birthdays
December 6 – Frank Springer
December 8 – Mike Hobson
December 11 – John Buscema
December 13 – Kyle BakerDecember 15 – Marc DeMatteis
December 17 – Andy Mushynsky
December 19 – Peter Gillis
December 20 – Dave Simons
December 23 – Phil Felix
December 25 – Joe Rosen
December 27 – Mark Bright
December 28 – Stan Lee & Ralph Macchio
December 29 – Paul Becton
Top Ten – August 1986
- X-Men 212
- X-Factor 11
- GI Joe Special Missions 2
- Classic X-Men 4
- The Nam 1
- Elektra : Assassin 3
- GI Joe 54
- GI Joe Order of Battle 2
- Marvel Universe 13
- Strikeforce : Morituri 1
The Mutant Report features the X-Men versus Avengers miniseries.
There is a Fallen Angels feature.
Fred Hembeck does a classic What If Fantastic Four fought X-Men story.
There is an Alien Legion feature, whatever that is.
A second part of a New Universe look through
The Marvel Age looks by at 1973, Part IV.
Issue ends with a slew of letters! From Richie Donato of Staten Island, NY / P. David Hunter of Sandy, UT / Scott Morse of Santa Clara, CA / Josie James of Waukega, IL // Rick Houston of Richman, VA. Even Brent Anderson wrote a letter, explaining what happened with the issue of 45 of Marvel Age, and its description of his series “Strikeforce : Morituri” a series that gets mentioned a lot in this issue but I’ve never heard of it. It even gets the back cover!
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Happy Veterans’ Day, all of you who has ever served! I really appreciate it!
Shadow and Flame with Magik 