Crazy
#1
(February 1973)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-11-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Printer
- World Color Press, Inc., Sparta Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
Reprints Not Brand Echh (Marvel, 1967 series) #8, rearranging story order (Echhs-Man story is moved from last to first in reprint). On-sale date from The Comic Reader #90, October 1972.
[no title indexed]
Forbush-Man / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Support peace, you super-baddies--or we'll clobber ya!
- Genre
- satire-parody; superhero; humor
- Characters
- Forbush Man [Irving Forbush]; Spidey-Man; Sore; Doctor Bloom; Thung; Cyclomps; Magneat-O; Bulk; Green Globule; Galacticus; Charlie America; Hokey; Dock Octopus
- Reprints
-
in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #58 (January 1980) - in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
-
Beware the Forbush-Man, My Son!
The Ecchs-Men / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Gary Friedrich (credited)
- Pencils
- Tom Sutton (credited)
- Inks
- Tom Sutton (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Echhs-Men [Angel-Face; Beastly; Cyclomps [Hot Summers]; Icy-Man; Marble Girl]; Forbush-Man; Magneat-O; Toadstool; Scarlett Wench; Slicksilver; The Beatles (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Forbush-Man auditions to join the Ecchs-Men, defeating Magneat-O and his villain sidekicks in the process.
- Reprints
- from Not Brand Echh (Marvel, 1967 series) #8 (June 1968) [pages 1-6 reprint pages 22, 2 panels from page 23, 26, 4 panels from page 27, 28, 30, 31 with altered George Harrison dialogue and caption box in final panel], #8 (June 1968)
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #58 (January 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Edited reprint (panels from pages 23, 27 removed; dialogue and caption box altered on page 31).
Awesome Announcements for You to Conjure With, Ponder Over--And Yawn At!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
What Price Forbush-Man?
Forbush-Man / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- John Verpoorten (credited)
- Inks
- John Verpoorten (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- satire-parody; superhero; humor
- Characters
- Forbush-Man; Dr. Bloom; Gizzard; Auntie Mayhem; Spidey-Man (cameo); Sunk-Mariner (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Forbush-Man defeats a horde of super-villains, then sneaks away from home to join the Revengers.
- Reprints
- from Not Brand Echh (Marvel, 1967 series) #8 (June 1968) [reprints pages 2 (first caption box is altered), 3, 5]
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #58 (January 1980)
-
This Fan--This Forbush!
Revengers / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (credited)
- Inks
- John Tartaglione (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (credited as L. P. Gregory)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- Forbush-Man; Revengers [Wisp; Golightly [Hunk Pym]; Black Panter; Hogeye]; Dang; Fred (cameo); Barney (cameo); Alley Oop (cameo)
- Synopsis
- To audition to join the Revengers, Forbush-Man fights Dang the Conqueror in the year 1,000,000 BC.
- Reprints
- from Not Brand Echh (Marvel, 1967 series) #8 (June 1968)
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #58 (January 1980)
-
And the Dragon Cried...Forbush!
Knock Furious, Agent of SHEESH / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Gary Friedrich (credited)
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (credited)
- Inks
- Tom Sutton (credited) (see notes); John Verpoorten ? (see notes)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?; ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- satire-parody; spy
- Characters
- Forbush-Man; Knock Furious; Jimmy Woo-Hoo; Dumb-Dumb Doolan; Ignatz (cameo); Dr. Bloom; Sue-Wannee Liver [Yellow Paw]
- Synopsis
- Knock Furious assigns Forbush-Man to infiltrate the Yellow Paw's secret laundry for super-villains.
- Reprints
- from Not Brand Echh (Marvel, 1967 series) #8 (June 1968) [reprints pages 15-19, 21 (with altered final caption)]
- in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #58 (January 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Nick Caputo suspects the Sutton inking credit is in error and John Verpoorten inked the story.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Support peace, you super-baddies--or we'll clobber ya!"]
Forbush-Man -
1.
Beware the Forbush-Man, My Son!
The Ecchs-Men -
2.
Awesome Announcements for You to Conjure With, Ponder Over--And Yawn At!
Bullpen Bulletins; Mighty Marvel Checklist; Stan's Soapbox -
3.
What Price Forbush-Man?
Forbush-Man -
4.
This Fan--This Forbush!
Revengers -
5.
And the Dragon Cried...Forbush!
Knock Furious, Agent of SHEESH
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Terry Collier
- Peter Croome
- John DiBello
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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