(August 1972)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-05-23
- 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
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #84 April 1972.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
He's Danger! He's Death!! He's -- The Man Called Diamondback!
Luke Cage / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Diamondback [Willis Harold Stryker]; Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Seriemagasinet solohæfte (Interpresse, 1972 series) #7 -
in Essential Luke Cage, Power Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005) -
in Luke Cage : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) #1972-1973 (novembre 2018) - in Luke Cage Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 - Retribution (2020)
- in Luke Cage Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Vengeance Is Mine!
Luke Cage / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Archie Goodwin (credited)
- Pencils
- George Tuska (credited)
- Inks
- Billy Graham (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Job Number
- 944 Z
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dobbs, it's him!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Diamondback [Willis Harold Stryker] (death) (antagonist); Gadget (antagonist) (first appearance); Dave Griffith (supporting) (first appearance); Luke Cage (featured); Claire Temple (supporting) (first appearance); Dobbs (villain; introduction); Curtin (villain; introduction)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Luke battles the man who framed him and sent him to prison, as seen in issue #1. Flashback of origin from first issue is included.
- Reprints
-
in Helgonet (Semic, 1966 series) #8/1973 (1973) - in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #1 (1er trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #215 (November 10, 1976) [first part of the original appearance], #216 (November 17, 1976) [Middle part of the original appearance.], #217 (November 24, 1976) [last part of story's original appearance] -
in Power-Man (Ediciones Vértice, 1977 series) #21 (July 1980) [first 12 pages] -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #4 (Outubro 1982) - in Essential Luke Cage, Power Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Luke Cage : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) #1972-1973 (novembre 2018)
- in Luke Cage Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 - Retribution (2020)
- in Luke Cage Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Page 7 has reference to the lawsuit over Captain Marvel between D.C. and Fawcett: a costume shop clerk offers the famous costume to Luke Cage as he seeks an affordable costumed super-persona.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
He's Danger! He's Death!! He's -- The Man Called Diamondback!
Luke Cage -
1.
Vengeance Is Mine!
Luke Cage
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bromley
- Nick Caputo
- João Clérigo
- Steve Coates
- Del Gruber
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
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