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Marvel Team-Up #131

Name: Marvel Team-Up #131
Brand: Marvel
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Jul 1983 · Marvel · 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD

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“The Best Things in Life Are Free... But Everything Else Costs Money!”

★ 1st appearance — White Rabbit★ 1st appearance — Lorina Dodson

About this Issue

Marvel Team-Up #131 is the debut issue of the White Rabbit (Lorina Dodson), a Carroll-inspired villain who would go on to become a recurring antagonist in the Spider-Man corner of the Marvel Universe, accumulating over 90 appearances across four decades. The issue pairs Spider-Man with Frog-Man (Eugene Patilio) in only that character's second-ever appearance, leaning into DeMatteis's deliberate editorial strategy of spotlighting Marvel's most overlooked characters in this title. Its literary DNA — a villain whose entire identity is an Alice in Wonderland riff, down to her surname being a phonetic echo of Lewis Carroll's real name 'Dodgson' — gave it a self-aware, darkly comedic texture that distinguished it from typical late Bronze Age fare. The issue stands as an early example of DeMatteis crafting character-driven, pop-culture-literate Spider-Man stories, a voice he would refine into some of the definitive Spider-Man work of the 1980s and '90s.

writer J. M. DeMatteis · artist Kerry Gammill · artist, inker Mike Esposito · colorist Bob Sharen · letterer Diana Albers · cover Paul Smith

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History

The issue was written by J.M. DeMatteis, penciled by Kerry Gammill, inked by Mike Esposito, and edited by Tom DeFalco, with Jim Shooter serving as editor-in-chief — a standard late Bronze Age Marvel editorial configuration. DeMatteis was at this point in the middle of a productive run on Marvel Team-Up specifically attracted to, by his own account, obscure characters that were 'ripe for exploration,' which explains the choice to build the issue around Frog-Man's second outing rather than a marquee co-star. The cover was provided by Paul Smith, a rising artist whose clean, dynamic style made him a recognizable presence on Marvel's mid-tier titles at the time.

Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of the White Rabbit (Dr. Lorina Dodson), created by writer J.M. DeMatteis, penciler Kerry Gammill, and inker Mike Esposito (July 1983).
Features Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Frog-Man (Eugene Patilio) as co-leads; this is only Frog-Man's second appearance, his first having occurred in Marvel Team-Up #121.
The White Rabbit's name is a deliberate literary allusion: 'Lorina' was the name of Alice Liddell's older sister, and 'Dodson' phonetically echoes Lewis Carroll's real surname, 'Dodgson.'
Cover by Paul Smith; interior pencils by Kerry Gammill with inks by Mike Esposito; edited by Tom DeFalco under editor-in-chief Jim Shooter.
Story title: 'The Best Things in Life Are Free… But Everything Else Costs Money!' The issue also contains a framing backup/cover story titled 'Enter… the White Rabbit!'
The issue exists in at least three known print variants: a Direct Edition, a Newsstand Edition, and a Canadian Edition (with a higher cover price), as well as a Mark Jeweler advertisement insert variant.
This issue was reprinted in the Swedish anthology series Spindelmannen superseriepocket (Atlantic Förlags AB) #10.
The White Rabbit went on to appear in over 90 comics including Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, and the 2022 Amazing Spider-Man series, cementing her as a durable if offbeat Spider-Man villain.