Astonishing Tales
#19
[Regular Edition]
(August 1973)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-05-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #96, April 1973.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
in The Super-Soldier Strikes!
Ka-Zar / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle; superhero
- Characters
- Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Zabu; Victorius
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #56 (4ème trimestre 1977) [Recadré [Reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B.
![Cover Thumbnail for Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #19 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/18/w200/18939.jpg?-5953805393552619417)
![Cover Thumbnail for Astonishing Tales (1970 series) #19 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1093/w100/1093604.jpg?7153483890519991909)
...And Men Shall Name Him--Victorius!
Ka-Zar / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Mike Friedrich (credited)
- Pencils
- Dan Adkins (credited) (pages 1-15); Jim Starlin (credited) (pages 16-19)
- Inks
- Jack Abel (credited)
- Colors
- Dave Hunt (credited as David Hunt)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Job Number
- 1498-Z
- Genre
- jungle; superhero
- Characters
- A.I.M. Member; Nick Fury; Gog; Ka-Zar [Kevin Plunder]; Bobbi Morse; Parnival Plunder [Parnival Plunder]; Zabu; Victorius [Professor Victor Conrad] (villain); Gemini [Damian Link with Joshua Link's mind controlling] (villain)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Victorius kidnaps Bobbi Morse and takes her to his AIM fortress. Nick Fury gives Ka-Zar the super-soldier serum and sends him after them. When Ka-Zar arrives he throws away the super-soldier serum before going in to face Victorius. Ka-Zar defeats Gemini and Lord Plunder and battles Victorius to a standstill as Bobbi goes outside to look for the serum.
- Reprints
- in Etranges Aventures (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #56 (4ème trimestre 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
Indexer Notes
Jim Starlin is credited on page 16 panel 1 in an editorial framed text that reads "Lest we forget, people, let's thank jingoin' Jim Starlin for stepping in on a crisis and pencilling these final four pages! -- Roy, Mike & Dan!"
More Miniaturized Mouthfuls of Marvel-ou Mutterings! [August 1973]
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 0.5 page
[no title indexed]
Astonishing Mails / letters page / 0.5 page
- Script
- Steve Gerber ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from (and answers to) Joe Bailey, Charley Parker and George Hong.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Super-Soldier Strikes!
Ka-Zar -
1.
...And Men Shall Name Him--Victorius!
Ka-Zar -
2.
He's Coming Your Way!!
Monsters Unleashed -
3.
More Miniaturized Mouthfuls of Marvel-ou Mutterings! [August 1973]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
FOOM!
FOOM -
5.
[no title indexed]
Astonishing Mails -
6.
Fear Lives--In the Haunt of Horror!
Haunt of Horror
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