The Six Million Dollar Man #3

(October 1976)

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Six Million Dollar Man / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Nicola Cuti (signed)

Pencils

Joe Staton (signed); Neal Adams ? (see notes)

Inks

Joe Staton (signed); Neal Adams (see notes)

Colors

Wendy Fiore (signed)

Letters

Joe Staton

Job Number

D-7810

Genre

superhero

Characters

Six Million Dollar Man [Colonel Steve Austin]; Oscar Goldman, Dr. Rudy Wells

Synopsis

While test-flying a new aircraft, Steve Austin breaks through the time barrier and finds himself several years in the past, with the opportunity to prevent himself from taking the fateful flight that turned him in a bionic man.

Indexer Notes

Includes a special editors' note thanking the U.S. Air Force for supplying reference photographs for aircraft depicted in the story.

Adams or his Continuity Associates staff touched-up Steve Austin's face in a number of panels. Info per Nick Caputo, January 2018.

The story is rare for including an actual calendar date for when it begins: October 29, 1976. It also establishes Austin's accident as occurring in February 1973, more or less corresponding with the March 1973 broadcast date of the original TV movie. The story also establishes, within the comic book continuity, that both Oscar and Rudy were made aware in advance that Steve's accident was going to happen.

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Six Million Dollar Man / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Staton (illustrations)

Inks

Joe Staton (illustrations)

Colors

Wendy Fiore

Letters

typeset

Job Number

5418

Genre

superhero

Characters

Six Million Dollar Man [Colonel Steve Austin]; Oscar Goldman

Synopsis

During a vacation in Florida, Steve Austin battles a great white shark.

Indexer Notes

Staton illustrations reprinted from #1 stories. This is the third consecutive text story based around the theme of Austin going on vacation.