Maybe I only like Wolvie in 8-page installments...

Actually, that doesn't quite line up: I bought the new Marvel Comics Presents last week, because it featured a Moon Knight story with his "Mr. Knight" outfit. It also had the first Wolverine story I'd read in forever; and I'll be reading the next issue as well, since it features Nightcrawler and Venom. The Wolvie feature was ten pages and a recap; but I was used to eight pages from the old biweekly MCP. Then I picked an issue without Wolverine for today...from 1994, Marvel Comics Presents #149, featuring stories by Chris Cooper, Kelly Corvese, Floyd Hughes, and John Figueroa; and art by Reggie Jones, Phil Hugh Felix, Fred Harper, and Alexander Morrissy.

Surprisingly, this looks like a completely stand-alone issue: Vengeance was still the series lead, but this was a single-issue story and not part of a serial. Vengeance decapitates a convenience-store robber that kills a clerk; then doesn't think much of it until the news reports the robber had been a cop, strapped for cash because his son needed an operation. In his secret identity, Lt. Badilino visits the family, and finds the son had taken his father's gun, intent on calling out...Ghost Rider. I don't think Vengeance was widely recognized, and he doesn't correct him. Badilino talks the kid down, but perhaps starts to wonder where vengeance--capital or small 'v'--is taking him.

The rest of the issue is three shorts: Namor, the Starjammers, and the Daughters of the Dragon. They're okay. MCP was pretty good at giving everyone a showcase; and if you were a fan of some of these characters, you were just happy to see them. I wonder if you could do that now...This was a quarter-bin purchase, but I may have bought the next issue off the racks: MCP #150 was a full-issue story with Vengeance, Wolverine, Daredevil, and Typhoid Mary. That would run into the next issue, but the first had Steve Lightle art; judging by #151's cover Lightle may have been one of the few to do a good job on DD's armor costume.