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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published May 1987
Frequency bi-monthly except monthly July through November
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 36
Editing Larry Hama; Pat Redding (Assistant Editor); Tom DeFalco (Executive Editor)

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Ham [Peter Porker]
Genre superhero; funny animals; humor
Pencils Joe Albelo (signed)
Inks Joe Albelo ?
Notes Cover homage to The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #50.

17 page Spider-Ham story "To Oink or Not To Oink, or The Days of Swine and Roses"

Characters Spider-Ham [also appears as Peter Porker]; J. Jonah Jackal; J. Jeremiah Jackal; Bunsen Bunny; Upton Adam Stray; Aunt May Porker; Flash Tomcat; Liz Alleycat; CAMEO: Andy Warthog; Mick Jaguar; Bruce Springchicken; Cybill Sheepdog; Whoopie Goldfish; Meryl Peep; Truman Coyote; Mel Gibbon; Rebecca deMonkey; Dinah Saur; Barry Manitee; Barbara Mandrill; Buddy Gheko; VILLAIN: The Hobgobbler
Synopsis At the Daily Beagle, Peter works up the nerve to ask Batty Brant for a date, but she rejects him, plunging him into sorrow. Jonah and the interns become The Black Jackal and his Beagle Brigadeers (Bullet Bunny, Power Puss, Invisi-Jackal Junior), and they take Peter to a celebrity party. The Hobgobbler kidnaps Barbara Mandrill, and Spider-Ham rescues her. Arriving home, Aunt May introduces him to Mary Jane Waterbuffalo. ORIGIN: May Porker creates an atomic powered hair dryer, gets zapped, and bites a spider, who turns into a pig with spider-powers, who May assumes is her nephew Peter. He creates web-shooters and a costume, and the rest is history.
Genre superhero; funny animals; humor
Script Steve Mellor
Pencils Joe Albelo
Inks Pierre Fournier
Colors Julianna Ferriter
Letters Janice Chiang

5 page The Mighty Scavengers story "The Mighty Scavengers"

Characters Pigeon; Squawkeye; Quacksilver; The Scarlet Pooch; Black Panda; VILLAIN: Kangaroo the Conqueror; Ultrog
Synopsis The Futuro-Scope shows Kangaroo enslaving the 30th century, so The Scavengers take their time machine, primarily hoping for good publicity of defeating a villain. Ultrog falls for The Scarlet Pooch, but The Scavengers blow him up and take Kangaroo back to the 20th century, where they're still getting bad publicity.
Genre superhero; funny animals; humor
Script Mike Mellor
Pencils Steve Mellor
Inks Steve Mellor ?
Colors Steve Mellor ?
Letters Jack Morelli
Notes Unnamed character: "Jarvis"-like walrus.

1 page Heathcliff promo (ad from the publisher) "Double Trouble!"

Characters Heathcliff
Genre children; funny animals
Pencils Warren Kremer ? (illustration)
Inks Warren Kremer ? (illustration)
Notes House ad for new Star Comics series Heathcliff's Funhouse (Marvel, 1987 series) and original series Heathcliff (Marvel, 1985 series)

Half page The Pig Pen letters page

Script Pat Redding ?
Letters typeset
Notes Letters submitted by Eric Kendall; Chris Galbraith; Marty Saillon; Neal Bonenfant; William Smith; Yaron Y. Goland; John Mui; Colin Tooze; Brian Keen. Column titled "Pigpen" (one word, in quotes) in this issue.

Half page statement of ownership

Synopsis Statement of October 6, 1986. Average number of copies sold during preceding twelve months: 184,045. Publisher: Stan Lee; Editor and Managing Editor: Jim Shooter (all at 387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10037) Owners: Cadence Industries Corporation, Sheldon Feinberg, Joseph Walsh, Joseph Calamari, Paul Hindin, James Galton, Jim Foy (all at 21 Henderson Drive, West Caldwell, NJ 07006) Business Manager: Thomas Costello
Letters typeset

1 page Popples advertisement "Popples Pop In"

Pencils ? (photographs)
Inks ? (photographs)
Colors ? (photographs)
Letters typeset
Notes Back cover advertisement for the Popples line of toys (also a Star Comics title). Popples © 1986 Those Characters From Cleveland, Inc.