(November 1974)
Marvel,
1967 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 7 times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1974-08-06
- 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 United States of America
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor); Irene Vartanoff ? (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #109, August 1974.
Turning Point!
Hulk / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Starlin (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Starlin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (sourced)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]
- Reprints
-
in Σπάιντερ Μαν [Spider-Man] (Kabanas Hellas, 1977 series) #481 -
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #105 (October 5, 1974) [the cover to Marvel Super-Heroes # 47 appears to have been published first judging by the dates (a November 1974 cover date means the issue was on sale likely in August 1974). ] -
in The Incredible Hulk Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) [1/4 page]
-
Turning Point
Hulk / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bruce Banner; Hulk; Betty Ross; Gen. Rodd; Abomination (one-panel flashback); Silver Surfer
- Synopsis
- Betty bemoans her loss of Bruce. Bruce, in disguise, bemoans his circumstances, then transforms into Hulk who flees his hotel room in typical Hulk fashion - through the wall. Outside, Hulk sees a 'flying saucer' and leaps to bring it down so the aliens can take him far from Earth. What he brings down is not a saucer but the mighty Silver Surfer!
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #92 (June 1967) [with pg. count reduced to 9]
-
It Walks Like a Man
Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Prince Namor; Dorma; It (villain, intro)
- Synopsis
- Returning to Atlantis, Namor and Dorma observe a submarine dump a barrel of radioactive waste. The man-shaped 'It' rises from the spilled waste and destroys a Navy offshore platform. In Atlantis, Namor summons his soldiers to carry a message to the surface dwellers; en-route they are attacked by It. As rash as ever, Namor assumes that the attack is the work of the surface dwellers and sets out to do battle. Meanwhile, a Navy submarine has found It and prepares to fire torpedoes just as the Sub-Mariner also attacks It.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #92 (June 1967) [with pg. 5 of original story omitted]
-
Indexer Notes
The note on the title page implies that this story occurs immediately after the events in Avengers (Marvel) #40. Story continues in the next issue.
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