Fear
#17
(October 1973)
Marvel,
1970 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-07-17
- 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 #98, June 1973.
[no title indexed]
Man-Thing / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Brunner (signed as Brunner)
- Inks
- Frank Brunner (signed as Brunner)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- John Costanza
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You are strong, swamp-creature -- very strong!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Wundarr
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #50 (2ème trimestre 1975) -
in Essential Man-Thing (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) [black and white] - in Man-Thing Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
- in Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 (2015)
- in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
-
It Came Out of the Sky!
Man-Thing / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Steve Gerber (credited)
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik (credited)
- Inks
- Sal Trapani (credited)
- Colors
- George Roussos (credited as G. Roussos)
- Letters
- Jean Simek (credited as Jean Izzo)
- Job Number
- 1632 Z
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It glitters in the swampland moonlight like a silvery shaft torn from a star.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Andrew Kale; Jennifer Kale; Joshua Kale; Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Wundarr (first appearance, origin); Hektu (first appearance, flashback); Soja (first appearance, flashback); Gorein (first appearance, flashback); Ninox (first appearance, flashback); Ruseef (first appearance)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #50 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #202 (octobre 1986)
- in Essential Man-Thing (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) [black and white]
- in Man-Thing Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
- in Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 (2015)
- in Adventure into Fear Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) (2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Wundarr is a take-off on Superman. His next appearance is in Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 1974 series) #2. With special thanks for inspiration to John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
[no title indexed]
Mail-Things! / letters page / 0.5 page
- Script
- Steve Gerber
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Peter Cucich, Frank S. Lovece, and Curtis L. Collins.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["You are strong, swamp-creature -- very strong!"]
Man-Thing -
1.
It Came Out of the Sky!
Man-Thing -
2.
[no title indexed]
Mail-Things!
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