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Issue Details

Issue #73
Published [March] 1991
Cover Price 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Terry Kavanagh; Kelly Corvese (assistant editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Logan
Genre superhero
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith (signed)
Colors Barry Windsor-Smith

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Marvel Comics Presents"

Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover. Introductions, credits and indicia. The order of the Black Knight and Sub-Mariner stories is reversed in the introductions.

8 page Weapon X story "Weapon X; (chapter 1)"

Characters Carol Hines; Dr. Abraham Cornelius; Logan; Professor Thornton
Synopsis Logan is captured and brought to Weapon X where The Professor and his colleagues begin his transformation. The experiment takes some unexpected turns as the subject begins leeching massive amounts of adamantium from the system.
Genre superhero
Script Barry Windsor-Smith
Pencils Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks Barry Windsor-Smith
Colors Barry Windsor-Smith
Letters Jim Novak; Barry Windsor-Smith
Reprinted in X-Marvel (Play Press, 1990 series) #22 (January 1992) [Italy]; in Weapon X (Marvel, 1993 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Special (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #2 (November 1994) [Italy]; in X-Men: The Movie (Marvel, 2000 series) #[nn] (May 2000); in Wolverine: Arma X (Panini, 2009 series) #[nn] (April 2009) [Italy]

8 page Shanna the She-Devil story "Dance of the Forest; (The Bush of Ghosts part 6)"

Characters DuBose Wilson; Eric Heller; Jeremy Mchele; Shanna
Genre jungle
Script Gerard Jones
Pencils Paul Gulacy
Inks Gary Martin
Colors Steve Mattsson
Letters Jade Moede
Reprinted in Marvel Magazine (Marvel Italia, 1994 series) #15 (September 1995) [Italy]

8 page The Black Knight story "Sands of Time"

Characters the Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; the Black Knight [Eobar Garrington] (flashback); Dr. Strange; King Richard Lionheart (flashback); Saladin (flashback); Valinor (the Black Knight's horse, flashback)
Synopsis Dane tells Dr. Strange about the original Black Knight's battle with Saladin.
Genre superhero; period
Script Jason Balgobis (plot); Russell Lyman (script)
Pencils Dave Cockrum
Inks Dave Cockrum
Colors Mike Thomas
Letters Ken Lopez
Notes Set in New York with flashback to 1191 during the Crusades.
Reprinted in Thor (Play Press, 1991 series) #34 (June 30, 1992) [Italy]

8 page Namor the Sub-Mariner story "The Sea Enemy!"

Characters Russian fishermen; the Sub-Mariner
Synopsis Namor takes on a Russian fishing boat.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Morelli [as John Morelli]
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters Jack Morelli [as John Morelli]
Reprinted in Namor (Play Press, 1990 series) #24/25 (July 1992) [Italy]

1 page letters page "Marvel Readers Present"

Script various
Letters typeset
Notes Inside back cover. Letters on Marvel Comics Presents #59-61.

1 page The Black Knight; Shanna the She-Devil; The Sub-Mariner illustration "untitled"

Characters the Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Shanna; the Sub-Mariner
Genre superhero; jungle
Pencils Bret Blevins (signed)
Inks Bret Blevins (signed)
Notes Outside back cover.