Astonishing Tales
#20
[British]
(October 1973)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.06 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #20.
[no title indexed]
Ka-Zar / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Victorius! You have felled Zabu!
- Genre
- jungle; superhero
- Characters
- Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Bobbi Morse; Zabu; Victorius
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B.
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The Final Battle!
Ka-Zar / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Mike Friedrich (credited)
- Pencils
- Marie Severin; Werner Roth (see notes)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (credited)
- Colors
- Marie Severin (credited)
- Letters
- June Braverman (credited)
- Job Number
- 1619-Z
- Genre
- jungle; superhero
- Characters
- A.I.M. Member; Nick Fury; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Bobbi Morse; Parnival Plunder [Parnival Plunder]; Zabu; Victorius [Professor Victor Conrad] (origin, villain); Gemini [Damian Link with Joshua Link's mind controlling] (villain); Professor Victor Conrad (flashback); Dr. Wilma Calvin; Damian Link; Joshua "Whitey" Link
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The fight between Ka-Zar and Victorius continues with Victorius momentarily stopping Ka-Zar. Zabu distracts Victorius until Ka-Zar recovers. Ka-Zar again refuses to take the super-soldier serum, this time destroying it. He then defeats Victorius. Professor Wilma Conrad refuses to make another batch of the super-soldier serum. Ka-Zar leaves Barbara Morse to return to the Savage Land.
- Reprints
-
in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #56 (4ème trimestre 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Marie Severin greatly revised the art throughout this story, per information provided in correspondence with Nick Caputo. Story continues in KA-ZAR (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (January 1974).
Dietetic Doodlings and Dizzy Dispatches Designed To Delight! [October 1973]
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 0.5 page
[no title indexed]
Astonishing Mails / letters page / 0.5 page
- Script
- Steve Gerber ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; typeset
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from (and answers to) Mark Zepezaner, Harvey Phillips and unsigned.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Victorius! You have felled Zabu!"]
Ka-Zar -
1.
The Final Battle!
Ka-Zar -
2.
World Driving You Crazy?
Crazy -
3.
Dietetic Doodlings and Dizzy Dispatches Designed To Delight! [October 1973]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
FOOM!
FOOM -
5.
[no title indexed]
Astonishing Mails -
6.
Like Father, Like Son?
Son of Satan
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- Jay Flash
- Derek Reinhard
- Richard Thomson
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