- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan; John Romita; Bill Everett; Dick Ayers; Joe Maneely; ?
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia; John Romita; Bill Everett; Dick Ayers; Joe Maneely; ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the one you've been waiting for...
Inside front cover, issue credits, listing of stories with one panel reprinted from each story. Credits include Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, Gary Friedrich, John Verpoorten, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and Flo Steinberg.
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg (credited as Stan G.)
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Marvel [Captain Mar-Vell] (a Kree, introduction); Medic Una (introduction); Jeremy Logan; crew of a Kree starship; Colonel Yon-Rogg (introduction); Zarek (introduction); Smith
- Synopsis
- A Kree mission is sent to infiltrate Earth's defenses.
- Reprints
- in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #1 (10 avril 1970) [reworked]
which is reprinted- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #15 (19 Ottobre 1971) [part 1], #16 (2 Novembre 1971) [part 2]
- in Captain Marvel (Marvel, 1968 series) #36 (January 1975)
- in Planet of the Apes (Marvel UK, 1974 series) #42 (August 9 1975)
- in Marvel Super-Heroes (Yaffa / Page, 1980 ? series) #1 ([1980])
- in La naissance de Captain Marvel (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) (2ème trimestre 1980)
- in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #178 (5 octobre 1984)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 ([September] 2005)
- in Essential Captain Marvel (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
- in Marvel Firsts: The 1960s (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel (Marvel, 2012 series) #1 (50) (2012)
- in Marvel Classic (Panini France, 2011 series) #13 (janvier 2014), #13 (janvier 2014) [1 page]
- in Captain Marvel : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2019 series) #1967-1969 (février 2019)
- in True Believers: Captain Mar-Vell (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (April 2019)
- in Captain Mar-Vell Omnibus (Marvel, 2022 series) #1 (2022)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 - The Coming of Captain Marvel (2022)
The feature was created at the request of publisher Martin Goodman to secure the name Captain Marvel away from the competition. The appropriation occurred in three steps: Marvel Super-Heroes featuring Captain Marvel (December 1967), then Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel #1 (May 1968), then Captain Marvel #7 (November 1968). In the introduction to Captain Marvel Masterworks volume 5, Roy Thomas informs us that a TV producer wanted a science-fictional hero named Captain Marvel to develop as a TV animation series.
Nevertheless, contrastingly with the feature name, the narrative voice-only calls the character "Captain Mar-Vell".
This feature shows influence by the TV series Star Trek (1966-1969) and The Invaders (1967-1968). Accordingly, with the main character's status as an alien spy, his spaceman costume is green, a color typically associated in this era with super-villains and threats to the human race.
Myron Fass, the owner, and publisher of M. F. Enterprises and their version of Captain Marvel, which he published from April 1966 to September 1967, had trademarked his Captain Marvel. Per articles in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Martin Goodman tried to purchase the rights to Captain Marvel from Fass for 6000.00 USD ($6000). Fass rejected the offer and Goodman published this issue anyway. Fass then filed suit in the State of New York for trademark infringement. The parties named in the lawsuit were Goodman, Stan Lee, Gene Colan, the printer Eastern Color Printing, and the distributor, the Independent News Company. Eventually, Fass settled the trademark lawsuit for 4500.00 USD ($4500), handing over the trademark of Captain Marvel to Marvel Comics.
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as )
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as )
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Joe Letterese ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- As silently as the breeze which softly played thru the ageless stones...
- Genre
- adventure; historical; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Black Knight [Sir Percy of Scandia]; Modred; Merlin; King Arthur; Guinevere; Gawain; Lancelot; Galahad
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Camelot
Title from cover of BLACK KNIGHT #1.
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely; Gene Colan; Gil Kane (illustrations)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely; Frank Giacoia (illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan and the Bullpen, I liked "The Crime of the Ages!"
Letters of comment from David Shields, Jim Kyzer, Jacob Kurtessis, and Scott Willet; includes one panel reproduction from a previous issue and next issue blurb.