MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #1 [1990]
A year after the SPEEDBALL series ended its ten issue run they published a few more stories of Robbie Baldwin, the Masked Marvel, by his creator Steve Ditko in a few of their anthology titles, five in all over the next year. This was the first of them, in the debut issue of this quarterly title which often featured unused inventory issues from various Marvel books.
"Pulitzer Patty" is an 11-page story opening with a Patty, a student reporter in Robbie's school, interviewing some of the students about hard-hitting stories like the cafeteria food and what they think of the Masked Marvel. She also gets the janitor on camera, which upsets him. As you might expect the janitor is a criminal in hiding, afraid of being exposed, and tries to get the video, not even considering it would be backed up to the cloud... oh, sorry, 1990, I forgot. Robbie has to activate his speedball effect and go into action as the Masked Marvel to save the day.
Nice little story, I liked the little scenes of what other students think of Robbie's alter ego, and the emphasis on the civilian life of Robbie with just a quick well staged action scene.
The script is by Fabian Nicieza and the inks are by Chris Ivy, who mostly do okay (except a painful opening bit written in verse).
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