The Mighty World of Marvel #5

(November 4, 1972)

Banished to Outer Space! (Table of Contents: 1)

Hulk / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Dick Ayers

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Genre

superhero

Reprints

• from The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1962 series) #3 (September 1962) [First 6 panels of story page 2 omitted; the caption for story page 4, panel 2, is then used with the picture from panel 3, basically omitting a 7th panel; panels 4 & 5 of story page 4 are then deleted, which combines to reduce the reprint from an original count of 11 pages down to 10]

The Human Torch! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Mighty World of Marvel Pin-Up Page / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Sol Brodsky

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Human Torch

Reprints

• from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #3 (March 1962)

Indexer Notes

Between page 7 of the Hulk story and the letters page.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Mighty Marvel Mailbag / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Marvel, I was greatly impressed with the first edition of the Might World of Marvel.

Indexer Notes

Between the Human Torch pin-up and page 8 of the Hulk story.

The first Marvel UK letters page, with replies and colour panels taken from previous issues following each letter (two from the FF, one from Spider-Man, and one from the Hulk).

Letters from: Christopher Thompson (Wembley Park), Geoff Peck (London), Josie King (Macclesfield) and Jill Kendricks (Chelsea).

Duel to the Death with the Vulture! (Table of Contents: 4)

Spider-Man / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Steve Ditko

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

John Duffy

Genre

superhero

Reprints

• from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #2 (May 1963)

Indexer Notes

All references in pictures or text to "Now" magazine (J. Jonah Jameson's publication) are changed in the reprint to "Daily Bugle" (presumably as this subsequently becomes JJJ's only mentioned publication for many years, thereby "correcting" an apparent inconsistency)

The World's Wildest Free Gift Offer! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

The Menace of the Miracle Man (Table of Contents: 6)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Sol Brodsky

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek

Genre

superhero

Reprints

• from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #3 (March 1962) [The whole of story page 3 (the Miracle Man chopping a log with one finger after the Thing takes several blows to smash his in two) is omitted, reducing the reprint page count from 10 pages to 9], #3 (March 1962)