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Issue: Marvel Comics Presents #45

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Publication Date: March 1990

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Issues: #45 of 175 Issues (345 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: 01/11/1990

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.65 GBP
$1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On sale date from Mike's Amazing World / Amazing Heroes #175.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 Marvel Comics Presents #45 [Direct]

Marvel Comics Presents #45 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- Shadow Birth! [Illustration on Cover, Wraparound]1
- The Main Event [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Images2

Cover, Wraparound

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Title Page

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Cover, Front Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)

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Content Items (7 total)

Shadow Birth!

Illustration on Cover, Wraparound

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Hulk Visionaries: Peter David #4 published January 2007
as Shadow Birth! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Wraparound cover.

[untitled]

Credits on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Title, credits, summaries, recaps and indicia, on the inside front cover.

White Shadow! Black Shadow! Chapter VIII: Origins!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: He sat there like an unmovin' mountain of rolling flesh...

Synopsis: 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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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Stardust Miseries Part 8: Reach for the Stars

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: Behold the man!

Synopsis: 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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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

The Main Event

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ron; Jen

First Line: In this corner--

Synopsis: 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.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Hulk Visionaries: Peter David #4 published January 2007
as The Main Event [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: 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

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Black Billy (villain)

First Line: A county fair in the great state of Texas...

Synopsis: Shooting Star rescues a group of kidnapped schoolgirls from an old ghost town.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from: Lorenzo Napoland, Charles S. Novinskie, Victor Dupree and Deborah Meltzer. On the inside back cover.