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Issue: What If? #32
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860268604
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Tom DeFalco; Mark Gruenwald (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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What If the Avengers Had Become Pawns of Korvac?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
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Bob Layton (signed)
Joe Rubinstein (signed)
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Janice Chiang?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Avengers
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Wonder Man]; Galactus; the Gardener; the Grandmaster; the High Evolutionary; the In-Betweener; Korvac; the Living Tribunal; Odin; the Shaper of Worlds; the Stranger; the Watcher
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A Cracker Jack Story

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Irving Watanabe?
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Subject Matter
childrens, sports
Scottie; Cracker Jack
Scottie
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Inside front cover. Comics ad for the Cracker Jack snack from Borden. Baseball story.
What If...the Avengers Had Become the Pawns of Korvac?

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Mark Gruenwald; Peter Sanderson ("plot input")
Mark Gruenwald (layouts); Greg LaRocque ("finished art"); various ("embellishment")
Rick Magyar (Arishem, Universal Armada); Jack Abel (the Avengers; Grandmaster, Korvac: Energy, Thor); Alan Kupperberg (Badoon); Joe Rubinstein [as Josef Rubinstein] (Captain America, Captain Marvel, Korvac: Ultimate, Watchers); Vince Colletta (Carina); Walter Simonson (Chaos, Order); Terry Austin (Collector); Jim Starlin? [as Himself] (Death); Alan Weiss (Doctor Strange); Mark Gruenwald (Eternity); Rick Bryant (Gardener); Bob Wiacek (Godheads, Stranger); Bob Layton (Galactus, Hercules, Iron Man, Korvac: Human); Al Milgrom (Guardians of the Galaxy, In-Betweener, Starhawk); Larry Hama (High Evolutionary); John Tartaglione (Humanity); Klaus Janson (Immortus); Herb Trimpe (Jocasta); Marie Severin (Living Tribunal); Frank Miller (Moondragon); John Romita (Ms. Marvel); Frank Giacoia (Odin); Dave Cockrum (Phoenix); Steve Mitchell (Shaper of Worlds); Ron Wilson (Silver Surfer); Dave Simons (Vision, Wonder Man); John Byrne (Zeus)
Glynis Oliver [as Glynis Wein]
Rick Parker
Subject Matter
superhero
The Avengers
Arishem (Celestial); the Avengers [the Beast; the Black Widow; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hawkeye; Hercules; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jocasta; Moondragon; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Quicksilver; the Scarlet Witch; Thor; the Vision; the Wasp; Wonder Man; Yellowjacket [Henry Pym]]; Badoon (flashback); Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Carina Walters; the Collector (flashback); Death; Dr. Strange; Eternity; Galactus; the Gardener; the Grandmaster; the Guardians of the Galaxy [Charlie-27; Martinex; Nikki; Starhawk; Yondu]; the High Evolutionary; Immortus; the In-Betweener; Korvac [Michael]; the Living Tribunal; Lord Chaos; Master Order; Mephisto; Odin; Phoenix [Jean Grey]; the Shaper of Worlds; the Silver Surfer; the Stranger; the Watcher (story host); Watchers; Zeus
Korvac destroys the Avengers and then recreates them to do his bidding.
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Based on the Korvac Saga in The Avengers #167-177. A sequel appears in #43. All pages are inker jam pages, with each inker inking certain characters, as listed.
Why Not -- Extra!

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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various
typeset
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0.75
Inking credits and suggestions for future story titles.
U.S. Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Required By 39 U.S.C. 3685)

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Ed Shukin
typeset
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0.25
Average number of copies of each issue during the previous year: 262,341. Single issue nearest to filing date: 261,112.
Why Not?

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various
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Subject Matter
Why Not?
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Letters on What If? #27.
Fury Unleashed!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Irving Watanabe
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Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America; Hostess Fruit Pies
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nick Fury; the Trapster
Captain America saves Nick Fury from the Trapster's goon by distracting him with Hostess Fruit Pies.
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Comics ad for Hostess Fruit Pies from Continental Baking Company.

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