Cover: Bill Sienkiewicz & Eliot R. Brown

Dazzler #29

Nov 1983 · Marvel · 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD

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“Fame”

★ 1st appearance — Roman Nekoboh

About this Issue

Dazzler #29 marks the first appearance of Roman Nekoboh, the fading entertainment-industry celebrity whose scheming pursuit of Alison Blaire would become the central engine driving the series' Los Angeles phase and setting the stage for the 1984 Marvel Graphic Novel 'Dazzler: The Movie.' The issue also pivots the series away from its New York supporting cast and establishes Dazzler's ambitions in film and recording — a narrative turn that would eventually lead to her public outing as a mutant, one of the more consequential moments in her solo-title run. Although Rogue, Slimey, and several other supporting players appear only in recap or flashback here, the issue serves as the transitional hinge between the Rogue-villain arc concluded in #28 and the Hollywood soap-opera stretch that occupied the series through its final dozen issues. The Bill Sienkiewicz cover — designed to resemble an actual vinyl LP sleeve — is one of the most visually inventive packages in the Bronze Age Dazzler run.

writer, artist Frank Springer · writer Jim Shooter · inker Vince Colletta · colorist Andy Yanchus · letterer Janice Chiang · cover Bill Sienkiewicz, Eliot R. Brown

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History

Issue #29 was written by Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, who took personal control of the title's scripting duties at this juncture in an effort to reorient the series. Frank Springer, the book's long-running penciler, continued on interior art, with Vince Colletta inking and Ralph Macchio editing under Shooter's editorial-in-chief oversight. Shooter's stated intent was to ground the story in a Hollywood milieu he believed he understood, and the character of Roman Nekoboh — a washed-up entertainer whose surname 'Nekoboh' reverses to 'Hoboken,' the New Jersey birthplace of Frank Sinatra — is widely understood across multiple commentary sources as a Sinatra-inflected creation, though Shooter himself never publicly confirmed this in a primary source. The issue shipped in direct and newsstand editions, with a Canadian price variant, and went on sale July 5, 1983 (direct) and July 26, 1983 (newsstand).

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Roman Nekoboh (Earth-616), the past-his-prime celebrity entertainer who becomes Dazzler's primary antagonist/love interest through the series' Los Angeles arc and the 1984 graphic novel 'Dazzler: The Movie.'
Written by Jim Shooter (Marvel Editor-in-Chief), penciled by Frank Springer, inked by Vince Colletta, with a cover by Bill Sienkiewicz — Sienkiewicz's cover is designed to mimic a vinyl LP album sleeve.
The story is titled 'Fame,' a title consistent with the series' music-themed chapter names; it opens with an extended dream sequence in which Dazzler imagines herself as a world-famous star before returning to her poolside reality.
Rogue (Anna Marie) appears only in a recap/flashback of the previous arc — she is not present in the main story — as the prior issue (#28) concluded Dazzler's battle against Rogue.
The issue contains a self-referential in-joke: the production credits of the fictional film 'Passionate Pines' shown in Dazzler's dream are identical to this issue's actual creative credits (Shooter, Macchio, Colletta, Springer, Chiang, Yanchus, Harras).
Micronauts characters Bug and Marionette appear in cameo in the issue's backup/pin-up section, which also features three one-page Dazzler pin-ups penciled by Butch Guice and inked by Vince Colletta.
The name 'Nekoboh' is 'Hoboken' spelled backwards — Hoboken, NJ being the birthplace of Frank Sinatra — and multiple secondary sources identify Nekoboh as a Sinatra-inspired character, though this is described as rumor/speculation rather than confirmed by Shooter in a primary source.
The issue has been collected in: French 'Titans' #69–70 (Editions Lug, 1984); 'Essential Dazzler' Vol. 2 (Marvel, 2007, black-and-white); 'Marvel Masterworks: Dazzler' Vol. 3 (Marvel, 2021); and the 'Dazzler Omnibus' (Marvel, 2024).