Comic Art Archive / Publisher: Marvel

Series Title: Marvel Fanfare

Year Began:	1982
Year Ended:	1992
Country:	United States
Format:
Description:	Marvel Fanfare served as an anthology to give new writers and artists a place to show their stuff. It also published material that regulars produced but for which Marvel had no place in the regular publication schedule. Editor Al Milgrom in May 2005 on Marvel Fanfare: "It was intended that [Marvel Fanfare] would appeal especially to the fans. [I] tried to get the best possible stuff (as you say--by either established pros or talented newcomers). At least part of the purpose was to use better paper, more elaborate, detailed coloring and, by charging a higher cover price, to eliminate all those unsightly ads. The creators were paid a bonus 50% rate, too. I was sometimes 'accused' of just using up inventory material--as if that was necessarily a bad thing. I did use some inventory stuff--if I thought it was of high enough quality. As with any grand vision, the results sometimes fell short of the goal. But hey, I tried. It was sometimes difficult to keep on top of the book, since I went off staff after awhile, and had to try to coordinate its publication while working at home and juggling a full-time freelance career. What finally killed it was the advent of incentive payments to freelancers--top creators could make far more than the rate-and-a-half Fanfare paid if they worked on many of the better selling regular titles. That and my workload and family obligations made it tough to keep the book going. And sales had begun to drop as well." This information added 2005 by Steven Tice.
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Marvel Fanfare Issues With Artwork Assigned

Cover	Issue #	Published Date	# Pages Assigned
	1	March 1982	2 pages
	2	May 1982	12 pages
	3	July 1982	1 page
	5	November 1982	1 page
	8	May 1983	1 page
	11	November 1983	1 page
	14	May 1984	1 page
	16	September 1984	1 page
	18	January 1985	2 pages
	19	March 1985	1 page
	22	September 1985	2 pages
	30	January 1987	2 pages
	31	March 1987	1 page
	32	May 1987	1 page
	33	July 1987	1 page
	34	July 1987	1 page
	37	April 1988	1 page
	38	June 1988	1 page
	39	August 1988	1 page
	40	October 1988	3 pages
	41	December 1988	1 page
	42	February 1989	3 pages
	48	Mid December 1989	2 pages
	51	June 1990	3 pages
	52	August 1990	5 pages
	56	April 1991	3 pages
	58	August 1991	2 pages

Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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