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Issue: What If? #8

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Publication Date: April 1978

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Issues: #8 of 47 Issues (93 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: 01/24/1978

Volume: 1

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860268604

Price: $0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #152, January 1978.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In2

1 Content Item
- What If the World Knew Daredevil Was Blind? [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted as/ in another Issue.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:

What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2001

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Content Items (5 total)

What If the World Knew That Daredevil Is Blind?

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Daredevil; The Owl; Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (inset)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

What If the World Knew Daredevil Was Blind?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Daredevil; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Watcher; Electro; Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; Owl (death); J. Jonah Jameson; Higgins; Duke Klaus Kruger; Dr. Van Eyck; Judge Lewis

First Line: It is a question that the dashing Daredevil has often asked himself.

Synopsis: Daredevil's blindness becomes public knowledge.

Reprinting

In Issue:

What If? Classic #2 published January 2005

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 25

Notes: DD in red and yellow costume for first half of the story.

Spider-Man "Spoils a Snatch"

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Spider-Man; Hostess Cup Cake

Character(s): Spider-Man; Mary Jane Watson

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Hostess Cup Cake ad.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters of comment from Sheldon A. Wiebe, Dave Middleton, and Joe Jordan.

What If the Spider Had Been Bitten by a Radioactive Human?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Roy Thomas [the Watcher]; Man-Spider [Webster Weaver] (origin); Aunt Mayfly Weaver; Uncle Bug Weaver (death); Liz; Trash Chompson; Miss Grunt; Culture Vulture (cameo); Marvin, the Hunter (cameo); Rude Rhino (cameo); Green Gobbler (cameo); "Octo" Doctorpuss, the Cat O' Nine Tails (cameo); Leapin' Lizard (cameo); King-Pig (cameo); Bog Dog (cameo); The Stinger (cameo); Weevil McEvil (cameo); The Schlocker (cameo); The Incredible Hog (cameo); Fishterio; Porkius, the Living Ham-Pire (cameo); Electro-Eel (cameo); The Spud of 1,000 Faces, Mr. Potato-Haid (cameo); Barbara Walrus; Raze, the Bug-Spray Baron (death)

First Line: I am the Watcher! I observe... I record... I edit!

Synopsis: Webster Weaver becomes the Mazing Man-Spider in a story narrated by a Watcher-like Roy Thomas.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Credits include "Special thanks to Dave Stevens & C. Lay, 'The Dawn Patrol.'"