(December 1973)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- 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 (credited)
The Thing That Devoured a Planet!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Reprints
-
from Climax Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1962 ? series) #17 - in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #17 ([September 1975])
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in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2012)
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- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Giacoia credit per Nick Caputo, August 2012.Original indexer credited Gil Kane.
The Thing That Devoured a Planet!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Hartley
- Inks
- Al Hartley
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [9473]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...so you see, a cat is small --to a man-- but to a flea, that very same cat is a gigantic monster!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- 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]
- in Super Giant (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #17 ([September 1975])
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Enter: the Machine Age!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- [E-557]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Always, it seemed, the machine had been there in the underground city, growing larger...
- 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]
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in Planet of the Apes (Marvel UK, 1974 series) #23 (March 29 1975)
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It Came From Beneath the Earth!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Winiarski (signed)
- Inks
- Ed Winiarski
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [B-238]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The surface!! At last!
- 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]
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in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #39 ([Novembre 1974])
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The Eye of Doom
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Basil Wolverton ?
- Pencils
- Basil Wolverton (signed)
- Inks
- Basil Wolverton
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Basil Wolverton ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [8558]
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Venus: The morning star, ancient symbol of love and kindness!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Floating eyes from Venus invade Earth.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #6 (January 1952)
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Table of Contents
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0.
The Thing That Devoured a Planet!
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1.
The Thing That Devoured a Planet!
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2.
Enter: the Machine Age!
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3.
It Came From Beneath the Earth!
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4.
The Eye of Doom
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5.
Monumental Memorandums of Mice and Marveldom!
Bullpen Bulletins -
6.
A Genuine Spider-Man Medallion-Coin
Spider-Man Medallion Coin
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Steve Jenner
- Andrew Krieg
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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