Man-Thing
#5
(May 1974)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-02-12
- 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 (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #103, January - February 1974.
Night of the Laughing Dead!
Man-Thing / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Ploog (signed as
Ploog); John Romita (alterations) - Inks
- Mike Ploog (signed as Ploog); John Romita (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Darrel the Clown; Ruth Hart; Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Richard Rory
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in The Man-Thing: Night of the Laughing Dead! [Book and Record Set] (Peter Pan, 1974 series) #PR16 (1974) -
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #55 (4ème trimestre 1975) -
in Chiller Pocket Book (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #15 (1981) - 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Alterations by John Romita on Man-Thing's face, per Nick Caputo, January 2011.
Night of the Laughing Dead
Man-Thing / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Steve Gerber (credited)
- Pencils
- Mike Ploog (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte (credited)
- Colors
- Linda Lessmann (credited as L. Lessmann)
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The swamp is more than merely a place.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Darrel the Clown (first appearance, death); Ruth Hart; Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; Ayla Prentiss (first appearance); Richard Rory; Garvey (introduction); Tragg (introduction)
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in The Man-Thing: Night of the Laughing Dead! [Book and Record Set] (Peter Pan, 1974 series) #PR16 (1974)
- in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #55 (4ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Planet of the Apes (Marvel UK, 1974 series) #90 (July 7, 1976) [first part of the story], #91 (July 14, 1976) [second part of the story]
- 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)
-
Indexer Notes
Continued next issue.
[no title indexed]
Mail-Things! / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Roy, Stan, Steve, Val, and Sal.
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Man-thing, Howard the Duck, Dragon Man
- Keywords
- Marvel Value Stamp
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Gary "Tower" Morgensen, Michael Ziesing, Max G. Rodel, Bill Henley, Jr., Don Arnold, T. E. Pouncey, and Steve Chapman. Marvel Value Stamp, Series A, #83, Dragon Man is on the letters page. Marvel Value Stamp is a vignette from the cover of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #44.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Night of the Laughing Dead!
Man-Thing -
1.
Night of the Laughing Dead
Man-Thing -
2.
["Dear Roy, Stan, Steve, Val, and Sal."]
Mail-Things!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Jenner
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Jason Sacks
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
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