Hero for Hire
#12
(August 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 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]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #96, April 1973.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
Luke Cage / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're thru, Cage --- courtesy of Chemistro!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Chemistro; Luke Cage
- Reprints
Chemistro
Luke Cage / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Steve Englehart (credited)
- Pencils
- George Tuska (credited)
- Inks
- Billy Graham (credited)
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg (credited)
- Letters
- Charlotte Jetter (credited)
- Job Number
- 1494Z
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Luke Cage; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; J. Jonah Jameson; Phil Fox; Chemistro [Curtis Carr] (villain; introduction); Noah Burstein; Claire Temple
- Synopsis
- Cage is hired to protect Mainstream Motors from Chemistro. During the battle, Chemistro accidentally shoots his own foot with his alchemy gun causing it to disintegrate. Reporter, Phil Fox, attempts to blackmail Cage by threatening to publicly expose Luke as an escaped criminal.
- Reprints
-
in Power Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #36 (October 1976) [18 pp.] which is reprinted -
in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #116 (21 Settembre 1977) -
in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #4 (mars 1984) [Moins [Minus] 2 pages] - in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #115 (7 Settembre 1977) [part 1]
- in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #11 (1er trimestre 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- 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
Story cont'd from Amazing Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #123
More Miniaturized Mouthfuls of Marvel-ous Mutterings! (Or: No Only Is Dracula Alive and Well - But He's Got Company!)
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 0.5 page
[no title indexed]
Comments to Cage / letters page / 0.5 page
- Script
- Steve Englehart
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
Comments to Cage- Reprints
- in Luke Cage Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from Rick Keef, Les Babtiste, Sue Owen.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["You're thru, Cage --- courtesy of Chemistro!"]
Luke Cage -
1.
Chemistro
Luke Cage -
2.
More Miniaturized Mouthfuls of Marvel-ous Mutterings! (Or: No Only Is Dracula Alive and Well - But He's Got Company!)
Bullpen Bulletins -
3.
[no title indexed]
Comments to Cage -
4.
Savage Tales is coming back!
Conan
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Dan Creel
- Del Gruber
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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