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Cover: Jon Bogdanove & Terry Austin

Marvel Age #46

Name: Marvel Age #46
Brand: Marvel
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Jan 1987 · Marvel · 0.50 USD

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“A Special Marvel Team-Up Starring... Star-Lord and Forbush-Man”

★ 1st appearance — Comet Man

About this Issue

Marvel Age #46 (cover date January 1987) is part of Marvel's long-running promotional news magazine, a series that served as the primary pipeline through which Marvel telegraphed its creative ambitions to fans throughout the 1980s. Running from 1983 to 1994, the series as a whole functioned as an expanded, comic-book-sized Bullpen Bulletins — mixing previews, creator interviews, and behind-the-scenes features that gave readers an unprecedented look at how Marvel's publishing machine operated. Issue #46 was published against the backdrop of Marvel's energetic post-Secret-Wars era, when the company was simultaneously managing the rollout of the New Universe line and navigating internal editorial transitions. While no landmark first appearance has been independently corroborated for this specific issue across multiple sources, it represents the kind of deep-catalogue documentary record that historians rely on to reconstruct mid-1980s Marvel's editorial culture.

writer Jim Salicrup · artist, inker Ron Zalme · cover Jon Bogdanove, Terry Austin

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History

Marvel Age launched in June 1983 as a promotional magazine designed to be, in the words of contemporaneous coverage, a full comic-length edition of the Bullpen Bulletins page, giving the editorial staff direct access to readers beyond the letters columns. By issue #46, the series was well into its stride under the broader editorial oversight of Marvel's mid-1980s bullpen, with the New Universe initiative — championed by Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter alongside editors Archie Goodwin, Tom DeFalco, and Mark Gruenwald — still dominating Marvel's promotional messaging in surrounding issues. The October 7, 1986 on-sale date places #46 just weeks after the 25th Anniversary border-cover event (which applied to November 1986 cover-dated books and was carried by Marvel Age #44, not #46), situating this issue in the immediate post-celebration publishing window.

Trivia · 7 facts

Cover date: January 1987; on-sale (release) date: October 7, 1986 — confirmed by Marvel Fandom wiki and League of Comic Geeks.
Part of the Marvel Age series (Vol. 1), which ran continuously from 1983 to 1994 for a total of 140 issues, four annuals, two preview issues, and two specials.
Marvel Age functioned as Marvel's official news magazine — a comic-book-sized expansion of the Bullpen Bulletins page, featuring previews, creator interviews, and editorial commentary.
The series is notable as an early venue for writers who would become major Marvel voices, including Peter David and Kurt Busiek, per Wikipedia's entry on Marvel Age.
The recurring humor strip by Fred Hembeck — which poked fun at Marvel characters and history — was a regular feature throughout this era of the series, appearing in issues #8 through #112.
The superhero parody character Forbush Man, previously the mascot of Not Brand Echh, served as the recurring mascot of Marvel Age from issues #8 through #112, including this issue.
No specific first appearance, reprint content, or named feature story for Marvel Age #46 itself has been indexed or corroborated across the Grand Comics Database, Key Collector Comics, Marvel Fandom wiki, or any collector forum reviewed.