Hero for Hire
#16
(December 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-09-11
- 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 #100.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Shake Hands With Stiletto
Luke Cage / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Forget it, knife-thrower!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Luke Cage; Stiletto; Mrs. Jenks
- Reprints
-
in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #84 (30 Giugno 1976) -
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)
-
Shake Hands With Stiletto
Luke Cage / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Tony Isabella (credited); Steve Englehart ? (see notes)
- Pencils
- Billy Graham (credited)
- Inks
- Frank McLaughlin (credited as F. McLaughlin)
- Colors
- Linda Lessmann (credited as L. Lessmann)
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (credited as Tom Orz); Gaspar Saladino (splash)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That tears it!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Luke Cage; Billy Bob Rackham (villain, dies); Shades (villain); Comanche (villain); Flea (villain); Stiletto [Tom Stuart] (villain, introduction); Big Ben Donovan (guest); Mrs. Jenks; Claire Temple
- Reprints
- in Giant-Size Power Man (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (1975)
- in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #84 (30 Giugno 1976)
- in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #13 (3ème trimestre 1978) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #38 (Agosto 1985) [Do original faltam: Página 23 (inteira); Página 32 (inteira)] - 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
There is a dispute on correct writer credits. The credit line reads "Tony Isabella writer, Billy Graham penciller", etc. In 2006, Steve Englehart has said that he co-plotted this story with Billy Graham. On July 5, 2013, Tony Isabella stated that he wrote this story "full script style" without plotting assistance from either Englehart or Graham.
A "special thanks to Marv Wolfman and Len Wein" credit appears on the splash page.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Shake Hands With Stiletto
Luke Cage -
1.
Shake Hands With Stiletto
Luke Cage -
2.
Monumental Memorandums of Mice and Marveldom!
Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Del Gruber
- Edgar Loftin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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