The New Mutants (vol. 1) #11
Title: “Magma”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Jan. 1984
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Cover Date: January 1984
Publisher: Marvel Story 1: Magma Pages: 22 Credits (as printed) Writer: Chris Claremont Penciler: Sal Buscema Finisher: Tom Mandrake Editor: Louise Jones Letterer: Joe Rosen Colorist: Glynis Wein Editor in Chief: Jim Shooter Created by: Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod Stars: New Mutants Story 2: The Brown of Reknown -- and his Assistant-Editor's "Letters Column!" Pages: 1 By: Eliot Brown [writer] and Parker [artist] This one-page strip (7 panels) is a comics-style replacement for the letters column. The intent of this page is humorous, and features Eliot Brown, the assistant editor of The New Mutants, explaining a non-existent content through which readers can win "Eliot's Marvel Universe Slipper-Socks." This page and the image of Eliot Brown wearing moose antlers in the cover's corner box represent this issue's participation in the much-promoted Marvel-wide "Assistant Editor's Month" event. The set-up for this event was a convention in California attended by all of Marvel's editors. In the months running up to this event, letters pages and Marvel Bullpen columns explained that the assistant editors would be in charge of all of Marvel's comics for a month, and things might get crazy. Most of the issues published with a January 1984 cover date featured stories which were heavily humor-oriented. Many of the stories were touted as stories which would were so wild they would not be published under regular conditions. The featured story in The New Mutants was not altered in any way to conform to this company-wide promotion, probably because the series was in the middle of a lengthy multi-story plot arc. The humorous strip running in place of the letter column filled this role. Cover Cover Price: 60¢ Cover Artist(s): Walt Simonson (pencils), Tom Mandrake (inks) Cover Blurb(s): BEWARE: It's Assistant Editor's Month! Don't say we didn't warn you!; Exciting News Inside!! See Letters Page Featured on Cover: Magma, Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) Shown in Corner Box: Cannonball, Eliot Brown (assistant editor), Wolfsbane, Sunspot, Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) Letter column: This issue does not have a traditional text-only letters column, but has a one-page comics-style strip identified as assistant editor Eliot Brown's "letters column!" |
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