COVER BY JOE QUESADA
RON ZIMMERMAN (W)/AL RIO (P)/SANDU FLOREA (I)
• THE SCOOP: "Get Shorty" meets "The Player" in this five-issueseries that dishes the dirt on the dark underbelly of show biz! Plus: Inaddition to an all-new 23-page story, this issue also features the 25-page "YouCan Call Me Al" serial that ran in the May Marvel titles! That's 48 pages ofaction for only $2.99!
• THE STORY: Alyosha Kravinoff -- a.k.a. the son of "Kraven theHunter" -- is the kind of guy that boys love to hate and girls hate to love.Trouble in leopard-skin boots, a six thousand dollar suit, and with a killersmile. Indeed, with his movie-star looks, heightened senses, razor-sharp tongueand thirty million dollar inheritance, you'd think that Al Kravinoff would beliving The Life. But in reality, he's running a family legacy that makes him thefirst of his bloodline not to be obsessed with the death and destruction of acertain wall-crawler. Where to funnel that excess energy? Kraven is about todive in the great fountain of all dreams, and swim with its many sharks. And godhelp the sleazebag producers, self-absorbed movie stars and hired goons who getin his path. Hollywood has seen its fair share of players, but no one plays thegame like Kraven. Kraven wants to make a movie. And what Kraven wants, Kravengets.
• RETAILER NOTE: GET KRAVEN will be set up in a five-part that willrun in half of Marvel's titles in May, so you know everyone's going to befollowing it!
• THE FORMAT: The first issue of this five-part series -- which alsoincludes the five-part serial -- is 48 pages, with no ads! Now that's abargain!