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Issue: Marvel Comics Presents #45
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 01/30/1990
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07148602214545
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
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Disclose Notes: On sale date from Mike's Amazing World / Marvel Age #85.
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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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Shadow Birth!

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Wraparound cover.
[untitled]

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Title, credits, summaries, recaps and indicia, on the inside front cover.
White Shadow! Black Shadow! Chapter VIII: Origins!

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He sat there like an unmovin' mountain of rolling flesh...
Wolverine learns the origin of the mutant who creates the Shadows as he tries to save Mai and Ch'un from Black Shadow.
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Stardust Miseries Part 8: Reach for the Stars

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Behold the man!
Enchantress uses the power of the Avengers to turn Wonder Man into a god, but his newfound powers restore his mind, and he fights her off to save his friends.
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The Main Event

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Ron; Jen
In this corner--
The Hulk enters the wrestling ring to defend his name against the wrestler who has adopted it, thoroughly defeating and humiliating him in the process.
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The wrestler called "The Hulk" is based on Hulk Hogan. In one panel he states "I'm Rowdier than Roddy! More Macho than the Man!" in references to WWF stars Rowdy Roddy Piper and Randy "Macho Man" Savage.
Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot

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superhero
Black Billy (villain)
A county fair in the great state of Texas...
Shooting Star rescues a group of kidnapped schoolgirls from an old ghost town.
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Letters from: Lorenzo Napoland, Charles S. Novinskie, Victor Dupree and Deborah Meltzer. On the inside back cover.

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