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Issue: Marvel Comics Presents #50

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Publication Date: May 1990

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Issues: #50 of 175 Issues (345 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: 04/10/1990

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07148602214550

Price: $1.75 CAD
$1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from Mike's Amazing World / Marvel Age #87.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Marvel Comics Presents #50 [Direct]

Marvel Comics Presents #50 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (7 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Wraparound from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 2

Notes: This is a true wraparound cover (the right side of the front cover connects to the left side of the back cover); The cover includes many of the characters who have appeared in Marvel Comics Presents for the first fifty issues.

Marvel Comics Presents

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Credits

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Title page, index, credits, summaries, recaps & indicia.

Life's End Part III: Breaking Point

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Mr. Beck [Captain]; Mary Beck

First Line: Lemme off the wall-crawler. I owe him for what he did to my brother.

Synopsis: Wolverine and Spider-Man save a father and daughter from evil mutants.

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Pages: 8

Notes: The pair that the heroes save are implied to be Fawcett/DC's Captain Marvel (Shazam) and Mary Marvel. Wolverine refers to him as "Captain", and their surname is Beck - a nod to their creator C.C. Beck. The villain Savage Fin is almost identical to Savage Dragon, also created by Erik Larsen.

A Family Affair: Chapter One

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Lou Metzer (cameo)

First Line: Stephen, we've been at this for five hours straight now.

Synopsis: Stephen enlists the help of Reed Richards in trying to locate his missing brother. He returns to Earth as Comet Man, and immediately saves a young girl from being run down by a speeding car.

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Pages: 8

Notes: The African American man (Lou Metzer) that appears at the end of this story is depicted as white next issue.

I Just Flew in from Poughkeepsie... (And Boy Are My Arms Tired)

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Flint (villain, dream); Doctor Spock; Carla Denti; Ekl'r (villain)

First Line: Give up, Ultra-- you've met your match!

Synopsis: Captain Ultra is cured of his fear of flames by Doc Samson, and then has to battle Ekl'r, the Demon Without Humor.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Many of the background characters for this story are caricatures of old time celebrities.

You Can't Go Home Again

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Rava; The Marauder (villain)

First Line: This certainly is an odd sector of space. I wonder if...

Synopsis: The Surfer is hijacked to a mysterious planet through a singularity controlled by a tyrant named Marauder, and fights to rescue the people there.

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Pages: 8

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Letters from readers: Krishna Sadasivam, Robert J. Sodaro, Benjamin E. Via and Shane Hutchison.