Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #32
Published April 1982
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 52
Editing Tom DeFalco; Mark Gruenwald (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details - "What If the Avengers Had Become Pawns of Korvac?"

Characters 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
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Layton (signed)
Inks Joe Rubinstein (signed)
Letters Janice Chiang?

1 page Scottie; Cracker Jack advertisement "A Cracker Jack Story"

Characters Scottie
Genre children; sports
Letters Irving Watanabe?
Notes Inside front cover. Comics ad for the Cracker Jack snack from Borden. Baseball story.

38 page The Avengers story "What If...the Avengers Had Become the Pawns of Korvac?"

Characters 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
Synopsis Korvac destroys the Avengers and then recreates them to do his bidding.
Genre superhero
Script Mark Gruenwald; Peter Sanderson ("plot input")
Pencils Mark Gruenwald (layouts); Greg LaRocque ("finished art"); various ("embellishment")
Inks Rick Magyar (Arishem, Universal Armada); Jack Abel (the Avengers; Grandmaster, Korvac: Energy, Thor); Alan Kupperberg (Badoon); Joe 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)
Colors Glynis Oliver [as Glynis Wein]
Letters Rick Parker
Notes 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. This information indexed 2005 by Steven Tice.

Half page letters page "Why Not -- Extra!"

Script various
Letters typeset
Notes Inking credits and suggestions for future story titles.

Half page text article "U.S. Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Required By 39 U.S.C. 3685)"

Script Ed Shukin
Letters typeset
Notes Average number of copies of each issue during the previous year: 262,341. Single issue nearest to filing date: 261,112.

1 page letters page "Why Not?"

Script various
Letters typeset
Notes Letters on What If? #27.

1 page Captain America; Hostess Fruit Pies advertisement "Fury Unleashed!"

Characters Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Nick Fury; the Trapster
Synopsis Captain America saves Nick Fury from the Trapster's goon by distracting him with Hostess Fruit Pies.
Genre superhero
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes Comics ad for Hostess Fruit Pies from Continental Baking Company.