Here's a brief cameo of Man-Wolf on the animated 'Ultimate Spider-Man' on Youtub.com :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp02ZGOA … mp;search=

Man-Wolf/Stargod makes an appearance in She-Hulk #20 that came out this week.  It essentially ends his relationship with She-Hulk.  Also a bit of a downer since Stargod decides to give up his wolfy form and return to being plain John Jameson again.

But on the plus side, Man-Wolf will get his own 10 page back up story in Spider-Man Family #5 shipping in October.  No word on the writer or artist, or which version of Wolfy that story will feature.

At least the She-Hulk comic has come right out and admitted that Stargod has been "off-screen" having adventures of some sort (some of which include riding dragons )!  And saying John Jameson "gave up" being Stargod?  Writers have gone to amazing lengths to get a dead or otherwise unavailable character back -- this looks pretty easy, if they ever want a return of Man-Wolf or Stargod -- "Changed my mind."

Aw, that's kinda a shame. They went lots of trouble bringing back Man-Wolf/Star-God with that marriage to She-Hulk only to drop it entirety just so Jen and John no longer have a relationship thus ends Man-Wolf's adventures in She-Hulk's comics.

I only hope Man-Wolf/Star-God can find new adventures in space

Nice! Thank you for the post!

Well, didn't get much for my birthday . . . yet!  But a friend of mine sent off for CREATURES ON THE LOOSE #30, the only major appearance by Man-Wolf that I don't have!  So I'm re-reading the Man-Wolf tail, er, tale from the beginning.  Hope it gets here by the time I'm ready!

I started with AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #42 -- or rather the cheap MARVEL TALES reprint.  Why?  It features Colonel John Jameson transformed into a super-powerful being due to "space spores."  Just so we get to see the early Jameson.  Oddly, this issue also depicts Peter Parker's first encounter with Mary Jane Watson.  Some dialog in this 1966 comic is nearly identical to that I heard last Saterday on the new Spectacular Spider-Man animated show, i.e., Peter trying to avoid the girl Aunt May's trying to set him up with!  What's old is new again.

Now I'm reading the trade paperback, THE DEATH OF GWEN STACY.  Again, why?  Because Gwen's death occurs just before the first Man-Wolf appearance.  ASM #124 (first MW) is full of letters of rage and sorrow over Gwen, in fact.

So I'll go on to ASM 124-125 -- the first Man-Wolf stories; then the one-shot title GIANT SIZE SUPER-HEROES, in which Morbius finds the Moonstone and re-attaches it to Jameson.  Then it'll be time for CREATURES #30, beginning Manny's own series.  Hurry up, US Post Office!

Amarok wrote:

The Spider-Man series of the late 'nineties introduced Col. Jameson merely as a plot device to bring in Venom

Looks like that's what they're doing in the new series as well.  This weekend's episode has a moving black goo hitching a ride to Earth on John Jameson's damaged space shuttle.

Amarok wrote:

but maybe the new show's creators know MW has plenty of fans of his own!

There's some encouraging signs on that front.  The same epsiode opens with a pullback head and shoulders shot of a werewolf display in a costume shop (the episode takes place during Halloween and costumes play into the plot).  The werewolf looks exactly a John Romita Man-Wolf drawing from Wolfie's first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man #124.  The scene then shifts to John Jameson's space shuttle in orbit.  The blurbs for the remaining episodes in the season make it unlikely that the Man-Wolf will appear in this season.  But we might get him in season 2 or 3.

The year gets off to a great start with a new Stargod appearance in Nova 33 and 34 in January and February and possibly in 35 in March!  Apparently he is one of several characters pulled from different points in time.  Nova is one of the best cosmic superhero comics on the market today.  This should be a lot of fun and may even be laying the foundation for the return on the Man-Wolf/Stargod in other stories.


http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/20 … 33-and-34/

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Looks like it's time to leap back into comics (and the Cafe) in 2010!!

By a bizarre coincidence, almost every old ('70s) Marvel comic I've been reading lately seems to mention Wolfie somewhere, in the "Bullpen Bulletin" usually -- and the subject of Man-Wolf could not have come up that often, I'm sure.  One Bulletin mentions David Anthony Kraft and George Perez (M-W's main writer and artist) joining Marvel; another had the code announcing the Man-Wolf series beginning; the "What IF?" I read today mentions the Man-Wolf/Stargod story in Marvel Premiere #46 . . . Weird -- Not that I'm knocking it!

Just read another 70s comic, and the "Bullpen Bulletin" was full of news about their new GIANT-SIZE series of comics.  The first, GIANT-SIZE SUPER-HEROES, they announced with relish, had Spider-Man facing Morbius the Living Vampire and, of course, Man-Wolf!

Again, it's bizarre how the spotty scattering of comics I have somehow always mentions John Jameson's alter-ego.  But it's fun!  From now on I'll play "Spot the Man-Wolf" when reading old comics.

RedStreak wrote:

Here's a brief cameo of Man-Wolf on the animated 'Ultimate Spider-Man' on Youtub.com :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp02ZGOA … mp;search=

It said the video has been removed.

Preview pages for issue #35, shipping March 17.  It is the final chapter of this four part story.

A somewhat different version of the Man-Wolf appears this week in Superhero Squad #4.  This is Marvel's kid-friendly cartoon and comic that features kidified versions of their characters.  How different?  See for yourself: