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What If? #34

Marvel · Series began 1977 · August 1982

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Dates

Cover date: August 1982
On sale: May 18, 1982
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (2)

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Direct edition

Direct

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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

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Creators

pencils: Bob Layton, Ron Wilson, Rick Parker, Fred Hembeck, Dave Simons, Bob Hall, Ron Zalme, Brent Anderson, Dave Cockrum, John Romita, Kerry Gammill, Al Milgrom, Frank Springer, Ed Hannigan, Bob Budiansky, Terry Austin, Alan Kupperberg, Mark Gruenwald, Brett Breeding, Frank Miller, Joe Albelo, Jack Morelli, Bob Camp, Morrie Kuramoto, Eliot R. Brown, Jim Salicrup, Marie Severin, Larry Hama, Lance Tooks, Mike Carlin, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Willingham, John Romita Jr.inks: Bob Layton, Rick Parker, Fred Hembeck, Dave Simons, Brett Breeding, Al Milgrom, Brent Anderson, Dave Cockrum, John Romita, Joe Rubinstein, Bob Budiansky, Terry Austin, Alan Kupperberg, Jack Abel, Frank Miller, Ron Zalme, Joe Albelo, Jack Morelli, Bob Camp, Morrie Kuramoto, Eliot R. Brown, Mark Gruenwald, Jim Salicrup, Marie Severin, Larry Hama, Bill Sienkiewicz, Joe Sinnott, Bob Wiacek, Bill Willinghamletters: Diana Albers, Rick Parker, Fred Hembeck, Terry Austin, Alan Kupperberg, Michael Higgins, Marie Severinscript: Fred Hembeck, Tom DeFalco, Jim Shooter, Mark Gruenwald, Brent Anderson, Al Milgrom, Danny Fingeroth, Roger Stern, Bob Budiansky, Jo Duffy, Dan O'Neill, Frank Miller, Rick Parker, Mike Carlin, Joe Albelo, Bob Layton, Eliot R. Brown, Bill Sienkiewicz, John Romita Jr., Alan Kupperberg

Stories

What If the Watcher Was a Stand-Up Comedian? · 1 pages
What If the Fantastic Four Were Bananas? · 0.16 pages
What If Odin Were Peter Parker's Uncle? · 0.16 pages
What If Don Blake and Tony Stark Were Brothers? · 0.16 pages
What If Aunt May Were Ant-Man? · 0.16 pages
What If Spider-Man Married Spider-Woman? · 0.16 pages
What If Reed Richards Took Postman Willie Lumpkin up on His Offer to Join the Fantastic Four? · 0.16 pages
What If Captain America Chose to Remain Nomad? · 0.16 pages
What If, at Some Point, Rick Jones Decided to Leave Captain Marvel in the Negative Zone? · 0.16 pages
What If Nick Fury Had to Wear an Eyepatch on His Right Eye Instead of His Left Eye? · 0.16 pages
What If...the Ghost Rider Had Possessed Someone Else?! · 1 pages
What If Everyone Who Ever Had Been an Avenger Had Remained an Avenger? · 1 pages
What If Him Married Her? · 0.33 pages
What If Black Bolt Got the Hiccups? · 0.33 pages
What If Galactus Ate the Earth? · 0.33 pages
What If...Ka-Zar...Were a Middle-Aged Accountant Instead of a Savage? · 1 pages
What If the Hulk Were Yellow? · 0.25 pages
What If the Invisible Girl Dyed Her Hair? · 0.25 pages
What If Power Man Were White? · 0.25 pages
What If the Thing Were Blue? · 0.25 pages
What If--Captain Marvel Hadn't Died? · Captain Marvel · 0.33 pages
What If Phoenix Still Lived? · 0.33 pages
Elektra Had Survived? · 0.33 pages
What If Dazzler Had Become a Stand-Up Comedienne Instead of a Singer? · 1 pages
What If Marvel Comics and the National Endowment for the Arts Presented Spidey Intellectual Stories · 2 pages
What If Willie Lumpkin Were Herald to Galactus · 0.33 pages
What If Ghost Rider Owned a Fast Food Franchise? · 0.33 pages
What If All the Super Heroes Who Now Lived in New York City Moved to Toledo, Ohio? · 0.33 pages
What If the Watchers in All the Realities Got Together and Watched Watchers Watching Watchers [repeat "Watching Watchers" to infinity] · 1 pages
What If Howard the Duck Formed His Own Super-Team? · 1 pages
What If Thor Had a Swedish Accent? · 0.33 pages
What If Cyclops's Energy Beams Came out of His Ears? · 0.33 pages
What If Wonder Man Were a Woman and Power Man Were a Girl? · 0.33 pages
What If Black Bolt Were a Rock Star? · 1 pages
What If Daredevil Were Deaf Instead of Blind? · 1 pages
What If the Marvel Production Crew Existed in This Reality? · 1 pages
What If the Marvel Editorial Crew Did, Too? · 1 pages
What If Tony Stark Had Owned an Auto Plant Instead of a Weapons Factory? · 0.33 pages
What If Sue Storm Had Become the Thing? · 0.33 pages
What If Moon Knight Got All His Identities Mixed Up? · 0.33 pages
What If...the Watcher Grew Hair? · 0.5 pages
What If Alpha Flight Talked Like T.V. Canadians? · 0.5 pages
What If the Silver Surfer, White Tiger, Night Rider, Iceman, and Moon Knight Fought Wendigo in a Snowstorm? · 0.5 pages
What If the Black Panther Fought the Shroud in a Coal Mine? · 0.5 pages
What If Moon Knight Had 3 Different Identities? · 1 pages
What If King Conan Were Bing Conan on the Road to Hyboria · 1 pages
What If Black Bolt Hosted a Television Talk Show? · 0.33 pages
What If Bruce Banner's Pants Didn't Stretch When He Became the Hulk? · 0.33 pages
What If You Went to the Movies and Had to Sit Behind the Leader? · 0.33 pages
What If Aunt May Became a Super Hero? · 0.5 pages
What If Reed Richards Had Not Invented Unstable Molecules? · 0.5 pages
What If the Hulk Married the She-Hulk????? · 2 pages
What If Norrin Radd Had Not Volunteered to Become the Silver Surfer? · 0.33 pages
What If Dazzler Had Decided to Become a Lawyer? · 0.33 pages
What If Luke Cage Had Found the Hammer of Thor? · 0.33 pages
What If...Doctor Strange Were an Ordinary Magician? · 1 pages
What If: Obnoxio the Clown Fought Crime? · Obnoxio the Clown · 1 pages
What If Daredevil Could See? · 0.33 pages
What If Thor Got a Haircut? · 0.33 pages
What If Spider-Man Had Married the Black Widow? · 0.34 pages
What If Iron Man Had an Eating Problem Instead of a Drinking Problem? · 1 pages
What If Dr. Doom Had a Sense of Humor? · 0.33 pages
What If Galactus Needed Quick Cash? · 0.33 pages
What Will Happen When Stan Lee Reads This Issue? · 0.33 pages

Reprinted in

What If? Classic (2004), What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (2018), Best of What If (1991), The Marvel Universe According to Hembeck (2016), Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection (2013), Super Spider-Man TV Comic (1981), The Daredevils (1982), Dazzler Omnibus (2024), Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (2003), Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Omnibus (2007), Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson (2008), Iron Man by Michelinie, Layton & Romita Jr. Omnibus (2013), What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (2021), Ka-Zar the Savage Omnibus (2021)