The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls

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The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Published in	The Transformers issue 8 issue 9
First published	29th December, 1984 (part 1) 12th January, 1985 (part 2)
Writer	Marv Wolfman
Artist	Steve Ditko
Colorist	R. Slifer
Letterer	John Costanza
Editor	Marv Wolfman
Consulting editor	Jim Shooter

Machine Man is framed by two of Brickman's goons and their especially dense slave.

Featured characters

Regular cast	Antagonists	Incidentals
Aaron Stack/Machine Man Peter Spaulding Oliver Broadhurst Delmar Insurance Maggie Jones Eddie Harris	Miles Brickman Brickman's supporters Fred Greenfield Archie Goldsmith Barry Witherspoon/"Machine Man" Dorothy Mayson	Newsreader Hiram R. Goldsmith Gloria Witherspoon The Witherspoon children News photographers Wall Street security guards Dobbs The NYPD Warden Dean Prison guards

Notes

The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls on Marvel Database, an external wiki

Original printing

• Machine Man (vol 1) issue 14, April 1980

This was Marv Wolfman's final issue of Machine Man, likely as a result of his departure to DC.

Edits

• Pages 1-4 and 8-9 of part 1 are printed in black and white.
• A "DON'T MISS NEXT ISSUE!" caption box is added to the final page of part 1.
• Pages 1-2 and 5-7 of part 2 are printed in black and white.
• Brickman lists his political rivals as "Carter and Kennedy and the others" – the "Carter and" is removed from the UK printing.
• On page 2 of part 2, "candor" is (very poorly) edited to "candour". On page 5, "humor" is similarly edited to "humour", shifting the next word, "Peter", along a little.

Artwork and technical errors

• For the first time in a TFUK Machine Man strip, no effort is made to change the colorist credit to "colourist".
• A lot of U.S. spellings slip through in this story, including "theorized", "re-energizing", "aluminum", "jewelry", "transistorized", "analyzation"... and, ah, "mommy".
• The jeweller's robbed by Witherspoon is referred to once as "Tower's Jewelry Store" and once as "Towers Jewelry Store" (sans apostrophe).
• Shortly before Archie tries to call it quits, one of Fred's speech bubbles is attributed to the comatose Witherspoon.
• The final speech bubble is attributed to Machine Man, though it refers to him in the second person ("You've been proven innocent.").

Continuity notes

• Fred and Archie do not appear to be the same two goons who accompanied Brickman in "Byte of the Binary Bug!".