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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published February 1984
Cover Price 2.00 USD; 2.25 CAD
Pages 52
Editing Al Milgrom [as Allen Milgrom]; Jim Shooter (original & reprint editor-in-chief)
Notes Wraparound cover. The cover is similar to the cover of Micronauts #7 (July 1979) by Michael Golden and Neal Adams. Sale date: October 1983.

Cover Details

Characters the Man-Thing; the Micronauts [Acroyear; Biotron; Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette; Microtron]
Genre superhero; fantasy
Pencils Jackson Guice (signed)
Inks Joe Rubinstein (signed)
Notes Wraparound cover. The cover is similar to the cover of Micronauts #7 (July 1979) by Michael Golden and Neal Adams. Sale date: October 1983.

1 page The Micronauts text article "Bringing A Microverse! Into Being"

Characters the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch; the Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic; the Thing]; Crystal; Galactus; the Silver Surfer [all in cover reprint]
Synopsis Bill Mantlo on why he co-created, with Michael Golden, the Microverse. Contains a reduced cover reprint from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #75 (June 1968), an illo of the Microverse and a translation of the Microverse alphabet.
Genre superhero; fantasy
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Jack Kirby (cover reprint); ? (illo)
Inks Joe Sinnott (cover reprint); ? (illo)
Colors Bob Sharen?
Letters typeset
Notes Inside front cover.
Reprinted from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #75 (June 1968) [the cover, reduced]

17 page The Micronauts story "The Great Escapes"

Characters Abner Jenkins (Steve Coffin's next-door neighbor); Baron Karza, his dog soldiers & Acroyears; Colonel Macey; Commander Slug of the Rebel Underground; the High Shadow Priest; the Humanoids of H.E.L.L.; the Man-Thing (cameo); the Micronauts [Acroyear; Biotron; Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette; Microtron]; Muffin; Prince Argon; Professor Phillip Prometheus; Ray Coffin; Steve Coffin; Time Traveler
Genre superhero; fantasy
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Michael Golden (breakdowns)
Inks Joe Rubinstein [as Josef Rubinstein] (finishes)
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters John Costanza
Notes Original colorist: Roger Slifer.
Reprinted from Micronauts (Marvel, 1979 series) #6 (June 1979).

17 page The Micronauts story "Adventure Into Fear!"

Characters Baron Karza (also as Chief Scientist Karza, in a flashback); Colonel Macey; Lord Dallan Rann (Regent of Homeworld) & Lady Sepsis (Arcturus Rann's parents, in a flashback); the Man-Thing; the Micronauts [Acroyear; Biotron; Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette; Microtron]; Muffin; Prince Argon; Prof. Prometheus; Ray Coffin (in a memory); a Shadow Priest; Slug; Steve Coffin; Time Traveler
Genre superhero; fantasy
Script Bill Mantlo (co-plot, script); Michael Golden (co-plot)
Pencils Michael Golden (breakdowns)
Inks Joe Rubinstein (finishes)
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters John Costanza
Notes Original colorist: Roger Slifer.
Reprinted from Micronauts (Marvel, 1979 series) #7 (July 1979).

11 page The Micronauts story "Earth Wars!"

Characters Baron Karza; Baron Karza's dog soldiers (in a flashback); Colonel Macey; the Humanoids; the Micronauts [Acroyear; Biotron; Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette; Microtron]; Muffin; Prince Argon (becomes Force Commander); Prof. Prometheus (in a flashback); Ray Coffin (also as Captain Universe); a Shadow Priest; Slug; Steve Coffin; Time Traveler (a guise of the Enigma Force)
Genre superhero; fantasy
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Michael Golden (breakdowns)
Inks Bob McLeod (finishes)
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Gaspar Saladino (pg 1, uncredited); Diana Albers (pg 2-11)
Notes Original colorist: Carl Gafford.
Reprinted from Micronauts (Marvel, 1979 series) #8 (August 1979) [first 11 of 17 pages]

1 page The Micronauts cover reprint (on interior page) "Micronauts #6 cover reprint"

Characters the Micronauts [Acroyear; Bug; Marionette]
Genre superhero; fantasy
Pencils Michael Golden (signed)
Inks Joe Rubinstein (signed)
Reprinted from Micronauts (Marvel, 1979 series) #6 (June 1979)

1 page The Micronauts cover reprint (on interior page) "Micronauts #7 cover reprint"

Characters the Man-Thing; the Micronauts [Acroyear; Biotron; Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette; Microtron]
Genre superhero; fantasy
Pencils Michael Golden (signed)
Inks Neal Adams (signed)
Notes The cover signature is a stylized GA (for Golden and Adams).
Reprinted from Micronauts (Marvel, 1979 series) #7 (July 1979)

1 page The Homeworld Microship Endeavor character profile "The Homeworld Microship Endeavor"

Genre superhero; fantasy
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Eliot R. Brown
Inks Eliot R. Brown
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters John Costanza; typeset
Notes No credits.
Reprinted from Micronauts (Marvel, 1979 series) #4 (April 1979).

1 page Dazzler and the Beast promo (ad from the publisher) "Beauty And The Beast"

Characters the Beast; Dazzler; Dr. Doom
Genre superhero
Pencils Don Perlin (signed)
Inks Kim DeMulder (signed)
Notes Inside back cover. Promo for the Beauty And The Beast limited series.