Marvel Age #47

Marvel Age was Marvel's in-house preview magazine, and issue #47 delivers a genuinely fun peek behind the curtain with its promised "Behind the Scenes at the Creation of the New Universe." Ron Frenz and Brett Breeding's cover is a sprawling, energetic assembly — a massive, arms-wide powerhouse figure dominates the background while dozens of diverse characters, heroes, civilians, and costumed figures of all kinds pour forward in a wave of color and personality. It's a lively 1987 snapshot of an ambitious line-wide initiative, packed with enough faces to reward a second and third look.