Marvel Tails

    (Marvel, 1983)
™ and © Marvel Characters, Inc.

This humor title finds Marvel’s popular characters recast as funny animals. In addition to Spider-Ham, there is also Captain Americat and the Hulk-Bunny. Interestingly, aside from a few sight gags, these are fairly straightforward super-hero stories by Marvel standards. Spider-Ham’s sarcastic retorts are completely in the character of the real Spider-Man and Captain Americat possesses the dogged determination of Captain America, even though he is a cat. Since many of Marvel’s stories have humorous elements anyway, it requires a more absurd approach to set it apart as a humor book.

A backup story featuring the Ghost Rider as the Goose Rider is more successful since by contrast there is little that is funny about the source material.

— George Haberberger
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  • 1
    #1
    Nov 1983
    Cover: $0.60
    W: Tom DeFalco, Steve Mellor  ·  A: Mark Armstrong, Steve Mellor
    1st Appearance of Captain Americat; 1st Appearance of Goose Rider; 1st Appearance of Hulk Bunny; 1st Appearance of Peter Porker; One-shot
    5 copies from $39.95
  • 1/NS
    #1 Newsstand Edition
    Newsstand Edition with cover by Steve Mellor
    Nov 1983
    Cover: $0.60
    W: Tom DeFalco, Steve Mellor  ·  A: Mark Armstrong, Steve Mellor
    1st Appearance of Captain Americat; 1st Appearance of Goose Rider; 1st Appearance of Hulk Bunny; 1st Appearance of Peter Porker; One-shot
    1 copy for $64.99