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1990-12-01 02:03:11
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1990 / Box 30 / EiC: Tom DeFalco

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Marvel Comics Presents #44 (Puma)

Issue(s): Marvel Comics Presents #44 (Puma story only)
Cover Date: 1990
Title: "...And not a drop to drink!"
Credits:
Dan Mishkin - Writer
Gavin Curtis - Penciler
Bob Wiacek - Inker
Kelly Corvese - Assistant Editor
Terry Kavanagh - Editor

Review/plot:
Who is this, Puma Jr.?

No seriously, what's going on?

No, seriously. What's going on?!

I'm honestly just lost.

Quality Rating: D+

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This is apparently what Puma has been doing with himself since giving up the Daily Bugle.

References: N/A

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Characters Appearing: Puma

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Comments

Clearly this is the "Ultimate Universe" version of Puma. Because. that is not "our" Puma.

Posted by: clyde | July 30, 2015 6:22 PM

Dan Mishkin was the original writer of Amethyst in DC Comics back in 1983.

It was a story very much at odds with itself when it came to tone - saccharine, oversimplistic yet gory plot centered on a protagonist that was at one time oversexualized while also rather naive, even by the standards of the thirteen years old girl that she was in truth, and gloriously unashamed of being pure Mary Sue.

If the scans above are any indication, his writing is not any more convincing nor deeper seven years later.

Posted by: Luis Dantas | July 31, 2015 1:38 AM

Puma seems to be one of those characters that Marvel can't decide if he should be a villain or a hero.

Posted by: mikrolik | July 31, 2015 4:42 PM

If I got to write for Marvel, my secret plan would be to bring back Puma and make this story so incredibly important to the current continuity that there's a run on this otherwise utterly obscure issue of MCP. But only after I bought every copy I could find on the internet.

Posted by: FF3 | June 6, 2016 11:06 PM

Mishkin was also the co-creator and initial writer of Blue Devil, a light comedy adventure comic where random weird mystical stuff showed up to prompt adventures.

Posted by: Omar Karindu | June 7, 2016 4:53 PM

If nothing else, 'Blue Devil' had a great premise: an actor magically becoming the character he was playing for real.

Posted by: Oliver_C | June 7, 2016 5:29 PM




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