Marvel Two-in-One #1

(January 1974)

Vengeance of the Molecule Man! (Table of Contents: 1)

Man-Thing; The Thing / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Gerber (credited)

Pencils

Gil Kane (credited)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (credited)

Colors

George Roussos (credited as G. Roussos)

Letters

Jean Simek (credited as Jean Izzo)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Aw nuts!! This is it, world -- the last straw, y'hear?!

Genre

superhero; horror-suspense

Characters

Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (cameo flashback); Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards] (cameo flashback); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (cameo flashback); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (cameo flashback)]; Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (cameo flashback); Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Molecule Man [Owen Reece] (death, villain); The Thing [Ben Grimm]; son of the Molecule Man (villain, death?); Ben Grimm (as his human self); Ted Sallis (as his human self)

Synopsis

The Thing is cooling his heels in the New Mexico desert when he decides to head to Florida and take on the Man-Thing for appropriating his name. In an alternate dimension, the Molecule Man has duplicated himself and his "son" decides to take vengeance on the Fantastic Four when his "father" dies. Instead of arriving in New York, Molecule Man finds himself in the Florida Swamp where Thing and Man-Thing are able to separate the villain from his power staff and reduce him to dust.

Reprints

• in Essential Marvel Two-In-One (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 ([November] 2013)
• in Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 (2015)
• in Marvel Two-in-One Epic Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 - Cry Monster (2018)
• in True Believers: Fantastic Four - Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (September 2018)

Keywords

desert; Florida; New Mexico; New York; swamp

Indexer Notes

Continued from Marvel Feature (Marvel, 1971 series) #12.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Letters Page! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Steve Gerber

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Hulk! The Thing! Len Wein! Jim Starlin! Joe Sinnott! Woweewoweewoweewow!

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Bruce Marshall, Ira Bolterman, and Howard J. Tockman.

Just Thomas and Lee - And the Soapbox Makes Three! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)