(January 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-10-24
- 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
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #89 September 1972.
The Shambler from the Sea!
Doctor Strange / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Ploog; Frank Giacoia (see notes)
- Inks
- Mike Ploog ?; Frank Giacoia (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino ?
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Ebora; Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]
- Reprints
-
in L'Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #89 (27 settembre 1973) -
in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 (2005) - in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([January] 2010)
- in Doctor Strange Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #3 - A Separate Reality (2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Ploog inks per Nick Caputo. August 2012. Per an examination of the original art, Giacoia redrew the witch figure.
The Shambler from the Sea
Doctor Strange / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Frank Brunner
- Inks
- Sal Buscema; Ralph Reese (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Feature Logo
Dr. Strange Master of the Mystic Arts!- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Ancient One (supporting); Clea (supporting); Ebora (antagonist); Johnny Frames (supporting) (first appearance); N'Gabthoth (death) (antagonist) (first appearance); Sligguth (death) (antagonist); Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange] (featured); Wong (supporting)
- Synopsis
- Strange kills Sligguth, which wakens Shambler from the Sea, N'Gabthoth. Clea and Wong are overcome by Starksboro cult. Strange frees them from sacrifice to N'Gabthoth, and discovers a map of Stonehenge.
- Reprints
- in L'Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #88 (13 settembre 1973) [part 1], #89 (27 settembre 1973) [part 2]
-
in The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #103 (September 6, 1975) -
in Le Fils de Satan (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #5 (3ème trimestre 1976) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]] -
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #5 (Novembro de 1982) [Do original, faltam da história, as páginas: 3 (vinhetas 1 a 3), 5, 7 (vinhetas 2 a 4), 9, 10 (vinhetas 1 a 3), 11 (vinhetas 2 a 4), 12 (vinhetas 1 e 2), 13 (vinhetas 1 a 3), 14 (vinhetas 1 a 4), 16 (vinhetas 1 e 2) e 18.] - in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([January] 2010)
- in Doctor Strange Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #3 - A Separate Reality (2016)
-
Indexer Notes
Ralph Reese confirms that he inked the first two pages and may have inked parts of page 3, on Facebook on 15 February 2017 (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1287109234709107&set=p.12871092347…). This information also appeared in The Brunner Mystique.
First page notes: "Featuring concepts created by Robert E. Howard"
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Shambler from the Sea!
Doctor Strange -
1.
The Shambler from the Sea
Doctor Strange -
2.
The Terrific Ten
NBC Saturday Cartoons -
3.
[no title indexed]
Strange Mails
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- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- João Clérigo
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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- Steve Coates
- Richard Thomson
- Denys Howard
- Jim Stangas
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