Marvel Tales #70 [25¢]
(August 1976)

Marvel, 1966 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1976-05-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Barcode
0714860247608
Editing
Marv Wolfman (editor); Roger Stern (reprint editor); Stan Lee (original editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date from the Comic Reader #130.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Spider-Man / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Romita
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus
Reprints

Doc Ock Lives (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee
Pencils
Gil Kane
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen
Editing
Stan Lee (original)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Randy Robertson; Dr. Octopus [Otto Octavius] (villain)
Synopsis
Doctor Octopus versus Spider-Man.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Reprint is missing page 7 from the original story.

August 1976 (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Stan Lee; ?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Stan Lee announces the third ORIGIN book, BRING ON THE BAD GUYS. Miscellaneous Marvel news items, such as X-MEN #100, AVENGERS #150 and CAPTAIN AMERICA #200.

Captain America and the Red Skull (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script
?
Pencils
Sal Buscema
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Irv Watanabe
Editing
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I want my part in the Bicentennial Celebration to be the most patriotic,
Genre
superhero
Characters
Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]
Keywords
Cosmic Cube

Indexer Notes

Ad for Hostess Twinkies. Marvel ad #7.

Bulletman, the Human Bullet Blasts into the G.I. Joe Super Adventure Team (Table of Contents: 4)

Bulletman; G.I. Joe / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
?

Genre
superhero; war
Characters
Bulletman; G.I. Joe; Mike Power, Atomic Man

Indexer Notes

Ad for G.I. Joe action figures.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Spider-Man
  2. 1. Doc Ock Lives
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. August 1976
    Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox
  4. 3. Captain America and the Red Skull
    Captain America; Hostess Twinkies
  5. 4. Bulletman, the Human Bullet Blasts into the G.I. Joe Super Adventure Team
    Bulletman; G.I. Joe
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Morbus Iff
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore