(December 1973)

Marvel, 1972 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1973-09-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #100.

Two of the World's Mightiest Heroes, vs. a Powerful Supernatural! (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man and Captain Marvel / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Romita
Inks
Frank Giacoia
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Not even Spider-Man can save you!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell; Rick Jones]; Basilisk [Basil Elks]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Art credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (13 January 2005). Original indexer credited the pencils to Gil Kane and the inks to John Romita.

Beware the Basilisk My Son! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man and Captain Marvel / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Gil Kane
Inks
Jim Mooney; Dave Hunt (uncredited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Artie Simek

First Line of Dialogue or Text
You're doing fine, Rick--
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell; Rick Jones]; Basilisk [Basil Elks] (first appearance; origin; villain)
Synopsis
Basil Elks accidentally finds the Kree alpha stone. When a night watchmen shoots the stone, Basil is bathed in it's energies and becomes the Basilisk. Captain Marvel and Spider-Man race Basilisk to the omega stone. Captain Marvel gets trapped within the stone and disappears.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Continued next issue.

Mail it to Team-Up (Table of Contents: 2)

Mail It to Team-Up / letters page / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - David Lofvers, Corby Keep, Jerry Eisen and Mark Schlanger.

[December 1973] (Table of Contents: 3)

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Marvel Comics checklist for comics dated December 1973. Obituary for Syd Shores, who passed away on June 3, 1973. There is no Stan Lee's Soapbox column this month.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Two of the World's Mightiest Heroes, vs. a Powerful Supernatural!
    Spider-Man and Captain Marvel
  2. 1. Beware the Basilisk My Son!
    Spider-Man and Captain Marvel
  3. 2. Mail it to Team-Up
    Mail It to Team-Up
  4. 3. [December 1973]
    Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Morbus Iff
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore