Astonishing Tales #31 [Regular Edition]

(August 1975)

Twice Removed from Yesterday... (Table of Contents: 1)

Deathlok / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Rich Buckler (plot); Doug Moench (credited)

Pencils

Rich Buckler (credited) (layouts); Keith Pollard (credited)

Inks

Klaus Janson (credited)

Colors

Janice Cohen (credited)

Letters

Janice Chiang (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Overview: past events dictate--

Feature Logo

Deathlok the Demolisher!

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

Deathlok [Luther Manning]; Major Simon Ryker (villain, cameo flashback); Linc Shane (corpse); Mike Travers; Summers (death)

Universe

Marvel : Earth-7484

Synopsis

Mike Travers catches up to Deathlok who finds out that Mike had married his wife six months ago. Deathlok spares his life because he had saved his and then comes across a mobster that he hopes will lead him to the surgeon that made him into a cyborg, but the mobster manages to get into a helicopter before Deathlok can stop him.

Reprints

• in Frankenstein (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #12 (2ème trimestre 1979) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Star Wars Weekly (Marvel UK, 1978 series) #102 (6 February 1980)
• in Biblioteca Marvel: Deathlok (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) (Diciembre 2003)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Deathlok (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([November] 2009)
• in Deathlok the Demolisher: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) (2014)
• in A Coleção Oficial de Graphic Novels Marvel: Clássicos (Salvat, 2015 series) #31 - Deathlok: Origem ([setembro] 2017)
• in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #134 - Деслок: Начало

Indexer Notes

Script and Pencils credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B.

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Tales of the Watcher / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Gene Colan

Inks

Paul Reinman

Colors

Janice Cohen ?

Letters

Sam Rosen

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

The Watcher [Uatu] (host); Professor Crater

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

A man finds a crashed spaceship and reads the log which shows that the alien was to take the form of an earthling when he lands. The man goes to the Space Agency to warn them but the person he talks to (Professor Crater) pulls a gun on him. The man assumes that Professor Crater must be the alien but then finds out that the log is written in another language so he must be the alien and he has helped himself to be caught.

Reprints

• from The Silver Surfer (Marvel, 1968 series) #3 (December 1968)

Indexer Notes

Rework of the story with the same title from Amazing Adult Fantasy (Marvel, 1961 series) #7 (December 1961).

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Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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Captain Marvel; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)