Contents include previews of March-April Marvel comics; Newswatch; a top ten list of best-selling Marvel books from April, 1983; a look at Jim Starlin's career with the company; a retrospective of the company's titles throughout 1961; an article on Conan (long before his license was acquired by Dark Horse), and "How to Color Comics the Marvel Way."

The issue also includes full-page ads promoting the original Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars limited series, Marada the She-Wolf in Epic, and Alpha Flight #12 - ... And One Shall Surely Die.