Giant-Size Man-Thing #4

(May 1975)

The Kid's Night Out! [Part 1] (Table of Contents)

Man-Thing / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Gerber

Pencils:

Ed Hannigan; Ron Wilson

Inks:

Frank Springer

Colors:

Phil Rachelson [as P. Rache]

Letters:

Tom Orzechowski [as Tom Orz]

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Man-Thing

Synopsis:

Prejudice and hypocrisy plays a big part in a kids death.

Reprints:

• in Man-Thing Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #[nn] ([October] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Page count changed according to Bruno Andreacchi's error report (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4189)

Part 2 Paper Legacy (Table of Contents)

Man-Thing / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Gerber

Pencils:

Ed Hannigan; Ron Wilson

Inks:

Frank Springer

Colors:

Phil Rachelson [as P. Rache]

Letters:

Tom Orzechowski [as Tom Orz]

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Man-Thing

Reprints:

• in Man-Thing Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #[nn] ([October] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Continued from "The Kid's Night Out!".
Sequence information provided by Bruno Andreacchi (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4189)

Part 3 The Final Silence (Table of Contents)

Man-Thing / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Gerber; Annette Kawecki (co-script, page 5 in this sequence)

Pencils:

John Buscema (p 1); Ed Hannigan; Ron Wilson

Inks:

Frank Springer

Colors:

Phil Rachelson [as P. Rache]

Letters:

Tom Orzechowski [as Tom Orz]

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Man-Thing

Reprints:

• in Man-Thing Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #[nn] ([October] 2012)

Indexer Notes

Continued from "Part 2 Paper Legacy". Concluded in this story.
Sequence information provided by Bruno Andreacchi (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4189)
Pencils credit for Buscema from Mike Burkey via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7283), 2 July 2011.

Frog Death! (Table of Contents)

Howard the Duck / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Gerber

Pencils:

Frank Brunner

Inks:

Frank Brunner

Colors:

Frank Brunner

Letters:

Tom Orzechowski [as Tom Orz]

Content Information

Genre:

satire-parody

Characters:

Howard the Duck

Synopsis:

Howard the Duck falls through the dimensions back to Earth and must face Garko the Man-frog.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #12 (1976)
• in Essential Howard the Duck (Marvel, 2002 series) #1 (February 2002)
• in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2012)

Indexer Notes

Howard the Duck's first solo appearance. Spin-off from Man-Thing #1 (first series). Carl Barks credited as "spiritual guide."

I Entered the...Doorway to Doom! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

Artie Simek

Job Number:

T-459

Content Information

Characters:

unnamed Russian (only appearance)

Synopsis:

A Russian farmer becomes a gold miner and uncovers a doorway into a dimension of malevolent beings. When the army comes for the man's gold they ignore his warnings to leave the doorway and are destroyed, leaving the man to reseal the portal, determined to open it again if democracy does not come soon.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #72 (December 1959)

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person.

The Man With No Past (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Maneely

Inks:

Joe Maneely

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

A claustrophobic artist seeks help from a psychiatrist and it turns out he has no memories from more than one year before.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #21 (January 1955)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

letters page / 1 ? page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Steve Gerber (replies)

Letters:

typeset