Dates
- Cover date
- September 1988
- On sale
- June 14, 1988
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148602835209
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Creators
Stories
- Speedball, the Masked Marvel · 11 pages
Robbie's D.A. dad wants him to have a career in the law and his mother wants him to pursue a life in the arts. Instead, Robbie is secretly trying to cope with groovy new superpowers that make him talk funny and bounce around like a rubber ball. When Robbie saves his parents from a career criminal bent on revenge, Speedball is introduced to the world.
- The Origin of a Masked Marvel · 11 pages
Characters
Reprinted in
Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2005), Marvel Milestones: Dragon Lord, Speedball & the Man in the Sky (2006), Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko (2019), Speedball: The Masked Marvel (2019)