(December 1966)
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-09-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Illustrated Humor Inc.
- Brand
-
Giant Size Harvey Thriller
- Editing
- Joe Simon (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
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Double Dare
Glowing Gladiator / character profile / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Glowing Gladiator; Bee-Man
Indexer Notes
Intro page. "Jim Steranko?" removed from pencils credit per Manny Lunch via the GCD Errors list, January 2010.
[The Origin of Bee-Man]
Bee-Man / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the far reaches of our solar system...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- B-Man [The Bee; Barry E. Eames] (intro, origin)
Legend of the Glowing Gladiator
Glowing Gladiator / comic story / 15 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Glowing Gladiator [Harry Barker] (intro, origin); Destiny (intro, Villain)
Indexer Notes
Character created by Jim Steranko. In an interview in Fantastic Fanzine # 11, 1970, Steranko stated: "I had worked for Joe Simon years ago. I created a half-a-dozen characters for
Joe Simon on order. He bought three of them; three original characters. I wrote the stories, never drew them..."
Story in three parts:: 5 pp., Chapter Two "Plunderers from the Past" (5 pp.), Chapter Three "Dead Reckoning" (5 pp.).
The Has-Been
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #62 (March 1958)
-
The Ant Extract
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #60 (November 1957)
-
You Can Be a Magician!
Magicmaster / character profile / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Magicmaster [Shamarah]
Indexer Notes
Script credit changed from "Joe Simon?" per Manny Lunch via the GCD Errors list, January 2010.
The Secret of Magicmaster
Magicmaster / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Jimmy Apollo (origin); Prince Infernus (Villain, Intro, Dies); Incredible Apollo (Jimmy's father)(dies); Shamarah the Sorceror (introduction)
Indexer Notes
Question mark removed from script credit per Manny Lunch via the GCD Errors list, January 2010.
Story in two chapters:: 5 pp., Chapter Two "Fire King's Revenge" (5 pp.), Chapter Three "The Might of Magicmaster" (5 pp.), Chapter Four "Chains of Fire (5 pp.).
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0.
[no title indexed]
Bee-Man -
1.
Double Dare
Glowing Gladiator -
2.
[The Origin of Bee-Man]
Bee-Man -
3.
The Bee Line
Bee-Man -
4.
Legend of the Glowing Gladiator
Glowing Gladiator -
5.
The Has-Been
-
6.
The Ant Extract
-
7.
You Can Be a Magician!
Magicmaster -
8.
The Secret of Magicmaster
Magicmaster -
9.
Cold Facts
Jack Quick-Frost -
10.
Magic Session
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Gregory Fischer
- Denys Howard
- Bob Hughes
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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