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John Byrne
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John, would you amend your monthly capacity based on filling multiple roles?••• No.
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Brandon Carter
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I have been trying to figure out when this cockamamie idea was first lofted. Based on telling time by where I lived it must have been circa 1985, a few years before I accepted the Superman assignment. (Given Shooter’s over-the-top reaction to that, it certainly could not have been after!)So, what was a typical “Marvel month” in that year? ************* https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:1985,_June_Cover_Dat e
Here's a link to a list of Marvel titles published with a June 1985 cover date. I just chose June since it's in the middle of the year but other months are accessible here as well. There weren't as many as I expected, maybe two dozen? . That's not counting reprint titles, mini-series, UK titles, and Epic titles. I assume Star comics would not have been included either, though that may have been pretty fun!
Edited by Brandon Carter on 06 October 2025 at 6:15pm
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John Byrne
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Those covers feel more recent than their dates. Groan.
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Steve Coates
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636 issues for the year Eliminating all limited series, magazines non-continuity and non-Marvel properties leaves 241 issues in the main stream for the year
Title ---Year Total ---notes Alpha Flight 12 The Amazing Spider-Man 12 The Avengers 12 Captain America 12 Cloak and Dagger 3 Daredevil 12 Dazzler 6 The Defenders 12 Doctor Strange 6 Eternals 3 Fantastic Four 12 The Incredible Hulk 12 Iron Man 12 Marvel Team-Up 2 The New Mutants 12 Power Man and Iron Fist 8 Power Pack 12 Rom 12 Secret Wars II 6 The Spectacular Spider-Man 12 The Thing 12 Thor 12 The Uncanny X-Men 12 The Vision and the Scarlet Witch 3 - a 12 issue limited series ,which appears to be in continuity Web of Spider-Man 9 West Coast Avengers 3
Average would be 20 titles per month.
Edited by Steve Coates on 06 October 2025 at 7:01pm
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Vinny Valenti
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They kinda did a subset of this with KRAVEN'S LAST HUNT in the summer of '87, where all of the Spider-titles for 2 months were by JM DeMatteis and Mike Zeck. But neither of them had regular titles at the time, so that was much more doable.
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Eric Jansen
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It might have been a cockamamie idea at the time, but those special issues would have become beloved favorites.
JB writing and drawing even ONE issue of THOR, IRON MAN, DEFENDERS, POWER PACK, POWERMAN & IRON FIST, DR. STRANGE, DAREDEVIL--it's a dream come true!
Edited by Eric Jansen on 06 October 2025 at 9:03pm
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Josh Goldberg
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But forty COVERS seem doable!****
Back in those days, I bought many a comic book because the cover (and only the cover) wad drawn by JB.
Edited by Josh Goldberg on 06 October 2025 at 8:22pm
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John Byrne
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Back in those days, I bought many a comic book because the cover (and only the cover) wad drawn by JB.••• My apologies.
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David Miller
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I had been reading comics for all of about five months when I picked up
Secret Wars II #1. I wasn’t exactly tricked into buying, since I had read and
liked Secret Wars #12, but the downshift from the John Byrne cover to Al
interiors was my first experience with that particular kind of whiplash.
Edited by David Miller on 06 October 2025 at 8:46pm
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James Woodcock
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Good gravy, I read through that list and realise I bought probably 90% of
those titles, if not more.
And I was a teenager.
I couldn’t afford to do that now as an adult.
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Well, I'd hope the passage of 40 years would make you an adult...
in mind and body, but not spirit.
I must have been pretty close to dead broke in 1985, I didn't buy but 1 or 2 issues of the titles I listed.
And JB, thanks for the laugh.
Edited by Steve Coates on 06 October 2025 at 9:41pm
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Vinny Valenti
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Well, since we are talking about JB covers and 1985.....
....it took me decades to think to put the AMAZING/WEB OF SPIDER-MAN covers together to form one image. Boy was that a "D'oh!" moment.
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