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CATALOG RECORD

Beauty and the Beast #3

Marvel · Series began 1984 · April 1985

Dates

Cover date
April 1985
Pages
36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #3 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct edition75¢ cover

    Direct

    No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

    Source ↗
  • Newsstand edition75¢ cover

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 0714860252404 · shared with another edition

    This edition’s page
  • Canadian price edition1.00 CAD cover

    Canadian

    Printed cover price 1.00 CAD.

    Barcode 0714860252404 · shared with another edition

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Bill Sienkiewicz, Don Perlininks: Bill Sienkiewicz, Kim DeMulderscript: Ann Nocenticolors: Petra Goldbergletters: Joe Rosen

Stories

  • Showtime · 23 pages

    Beast and Dazzler begin to spend a little more time together, even though Hank strongly disapproves of her fighting in the arena. Beast once again tries and talk her out of participating but she refuses. Beast investigates a lab in the complex and discovers that Flynn and Longride have been giving Dazzler a potion that makes her powers go out of control. He is caught and injected with a potion himself. In the arena, Dazzler finds herself facing a feral Beast and they wage a brutal battle. The pair snap out of it but the audience still wants blood. Flynn accommodates them by killing Longride.

Characters

Hank McCoyBeastVictor Von DoomDoctor DoomJessica DrewSpider-WomanAlison BlaireDazzlerMax RockerAlexander FlynnIvich WilliamsonPoltergeistHornsHugo LongrideKateLink

Reprinted in

Essential Defenders (2005), Essential Dazzler (2007), X-Men: Beauty & the Beast (2012), Defenders Epic Collection (2016), Marvel Masterworks: Dazzler (2020), Dazzler Omnibus (2024)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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