(December 1973)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.20 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- Roy Thomas ?
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- standard Modern US
- Paper Stock:
- newsprint
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing series
The Thing That Devoured a Planet!
cover / 1 page
Credits
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Frank Giacoia
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Reprints:
-
in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #17 ([September 1975]) -
in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2012)
-
- Keywords:
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Giacoia credit per Nick Caputo, August 2012.Original indexer credited Gil Kane.
The Thing That Devoured a Planet
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Al Hartley
- Inks:
- Al Hartley
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [9473]
Content Information
- Genre:
- fantasy
- Synopsis:
- A professor postulates a giant being roaming through space that could eat the planets of the solar system, but that could also be eaten by an even larger being.
- Reprints:
- from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #2 (February 1952) [retitled]
-
Enter: the Machine Age!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sid Check
- Inks:
- Sid Check
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [E-557]
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. Years later, they return to the surface, leaving the machines behind, but the machines begin to think for themselves, and rise up to conquer the surface world.
- Reprints:
- from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #17 (August 1954) [retitled]
-
It Came From Beneath the Earth!
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ed Winiarski (signed)
- Inks:
- Ed Winiarski
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [B-238]
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A creature from an underground civilization is sent as a scout to determine the weaknesses of the surface world, but none of the surface dwellers are afraid of his monstrous form, as he expected.
- Reprints:
- from Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #12 (November 1952) [retitled]
-
in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #39 ([Novembre 1974])
-
The Eye of Doom
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Basil Wolverton ?
- Pencils:
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks:
- Basil Wolverton
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Basil Wolverton ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [8558]
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth.
- Reprints:
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #6 (January 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
Marvel Bullpen Bulletins / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Editing
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Thing That Devoured a Planet!
-
1.
The Thing That Devoured a Planet
-
2.
Enter: the Machine Age!
-
3.
It Came From Beneath the Earth!
-
4.
The Eye of Doom
-
5.
[no title indexed]
Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was most recently modified by:
- R. J. Roper
- Peter Croome
- Dwayne Best
- Per Sandell
- Nick Caputo
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Lou Mougin
- Dan Kocher
- Terry Watkins
- Roger Reus
- Jerry Hillegas
- Ramon Schenk
- R. J. Roper
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