CATALOG RECORD

What If? #23

Marvel · Series began 1977 · October 1980

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Dates

Cover date: October 1980
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #23 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition

Direct

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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

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Barcode 0714860268610
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Creators

pencils: John Buscema, Herb Trimpe, Ron Wilson, Alan Kupperberginks: Al Milgrom, Mike Esposito, Chic Stone, Alan Kupperbergletters: Ron Zalme, Tom Orzechowski, Irv Watanabe, Michael Higgins, Alan Kupperbergscript: Peter Gillis, Mark Gruenwald, Steve Skeatescolors: Carl Gafford, Alan Kupperberg

Stories

What If... Hulk's Girlfriend Jarella Had Not Died? · 20 pages
Jarella lives and the Hulk goes to live in her world.
The First Celestial Host! · 7 pages
The story of the Celestials' first visit to Earth.
What If Aunt May Instead of Her Nephew Peter Had Been Bitten by That Radioactive Spider? · 8 pages
Aunt May gets bitten.

Characters

UatuThe WatcherGammenonZiranEsonNezarrDreaming CelestialOnegHargenTefral

Reprinted in

What If? Classic (2004), What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (2018), Spider-Man and Hulk Weekly (1980), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Hulk: Heart of the Atom (2008), Hulk: Heart of the Atom (2012), Eternals: Cosmic Origins (2020), Eternals: Secrets from the Marvel Universe (2020), Eternals: The Dreaming Celestial Saga (2020), The Eternals: The Complete Saga Omnibus (2020), What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (2021)