Man-Thing #8 [British]
(August 1974)

Marvel, 1974 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.07 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel All-Colour Comics
Printer
Printed in the U.S.A.
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Notes

A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price and replaced brand.
This issue is a variant of Man-Thing (Marvel, 1974 series) #8.

Man Into Monster (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Mike Ploog (signed as Ploog)
Inks
Mike Ploog (signed as Ploog)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; F. A. Schist; Lorena
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Reprints

The Gift of Death! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Steve Gerber (credited)
Pencils
Mike Ploog (credited)
Inks
Mike Ploog (credited)
Colors
Petra Goldberg (credited as P. Goldberg)
Letters
Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The swamp is his lifeblood...
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; F. A. Schist (death); Hargood William Todd Wickham (death); Lorena; Capitan; The Fathers
Universe
Marvel : mainstream
Synopsis
F A Schist tries to discover the secret of the Fountain of Youth.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Continued from previous issue.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Mail-Things! / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Gerber
Pencils
Val Mayerik; John Buscema
Inks
Jack Abel; John Verpoorten
Colors
Linda Lessmann; ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Steve
Genre
non-fiction; horror-suspense
Characters
Man-Thing; The Foolkiller, The Watcher
Keywords
Marvel Value Stamp

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Mike Lazrone, Johm Drake, Robert L. Thompson, and J. Breen Allen. Marvel Value Stamp, Series A, #37, The Watcher is on the second letters page. A vignette on the first letters page is from an earlier issue and depicts The Foolkiller standing over a prone Man-Thing. Marvel Value Stamp is a vignette from the cover of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #113.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Man Into Monster
    Man-Thing
  2. 1. The Gift of Death!
    Man-Thing
  3. 2. ["Dear Steve"]
    Mail-Things!
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