Ka-Zar
#2
(December 1970)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-07-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
Daredevil; Ka-Zar / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Romita; Marie Severin (alterations)
- Inks
- John Romita; Marie Severin (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Strike, Zabu-- Strike!
- Genre
- superhero; jungle
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Plunderer [Parnival Plunder]; Zabu
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
from Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #12 (January 1966) - in The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Marvel, 1987 series) #3 (September 1987)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ka-Zar (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([January] 2013)
-
in Marvel Limited Edition. Ka-Zar (Panini España, 2015 series) (Abril 2015) - in Daredevil Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017) [1/4 page]
-
- Keywords
- Savage Land
Indexer Notes
Cover is a flipped image of Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #12, with alterations and additions by Marie Severin (Zabu added, and a face added in the lower left hand corner).
Previous lister credited Marie Severin and Bill Everett with cover art.
Sightless, in a Savage Land!
Daredevil / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (breakdowns pp 3-20); John Romita
- Inks
- John Romita
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Maa-Gor; Foggy Nelson (cameo); Karen Page (cameo); Plunderer [Parnival Plunder]; Zabu
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Matt decides to take a cruise to get his mind off of Karen. After his cruise ship is boarded by pirates, DD is taken to the Savage Land by the Plunderer. Ka-Zar attacks the Plunderer for trespassing on his domain and saves Daredevil's life as his costume reminds the savage lord of his encounter with the X-Men.
- Reprints
- from Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #12 (January 1966)
-
- Keywords
- Savage Land
Indexer Notes
According to interviews with Romita, he pencilled the first two pages on his own and Kirby provided breakdowns from page 3 on.
From the Sky... Winged Wrath!
Angel / comic story / 11 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (credited)
- Pencils
- George Tuska (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is where I belong! This is what I was born for!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Angel [Warren Worthington III]; Dazzler [Burt Worthington] (first appearance, villain); Fred Duncan; Candy Southern; Kathryn Worthington; Warren Worthington Jr. (death); Charlie; Matilda
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (Marvel, 2003 series) #5 ([August] 2005)
- in The X-Men Omnibus (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2011)
- in X-Men Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #3 - The Sentinels Live (2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Angel last appearance in The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 Series) #66.
The Secret of Ka-Zar's Origin!
Daredevil / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (layouts, pp. 1-4); John Romita
- Inks
- John Romita
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder] (origin); Maa-Gor; Foggy Nelson; Karen Page; Plunderer [Parnival Plunder] (origin); Zabu
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- DD and Ka-Zar battle the Plunderer as the villain regales them with his origin and the origin of his savage brother. The Plunderer is after half of a necklace that his father gave the two brothers that will open a vault to a substance that destroys all weaponry. Everybody gets greedy and even the pirates and the butler vie for the halves of the medallion.
- Reprints
- from Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series) #13 (February 1966)
-
Indexer Notes
Kirby pencilling credit revised by Mark Evanier via the GCD Errors list, August 2009. Original indexer had Kirby as co-penciller.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Strike, Zabu-- Strike!"]
Daredevil; Ka-Zar -
1.
Sightless, in a Savage Land!
Daredevil -
2.
From the Sky... Winged Wrath!
Angel -
3.
The Secret of Ka-Zar's Origin!
Daredevil
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Ruben Cortes
- Gregory Fischer
- Steve Jenner
- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
- Wilkins Wontkins
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