Man-Thing
#8
(August 1974)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-05-21
- 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 Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Man Into Monster
Man-Thing / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Ploog (signed as
Ploog) - Inks
- Mike Ploog (signed as Ploog)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; F. A. Schist; Lorena
- Reprints
-
in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #57 (1er trimestre 1976) -
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 ([October] 2015)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Man-Thing (1974 series) #8 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/893/w100/893508.jpg?-7561563391019673926)
The Gift of Death!
Man-Thing / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Steve Gerber (credited)
- Pencils
- Mike Ploog (credited)
- Inks
- Mike Ploog (credited)
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg (credited as P. Goldberg)
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The swamp is his lifeblood...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Man-Thing [Ted Sallis]; F. A. Schist (death); Hargood William Todd Wickham (death); Lorena; Capitan; The Fathers
- Synopsis
- F A Schist tries to discover the secret of the Fountain of Youth.
- Reprints
-
in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #1 (Octubre 1974) - in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #57 (1er trimestre 1976) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- 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 ([October] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Continued from previous issue.
[no title indexed]
Mail-Things! / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Steve Gerber
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik; John Buscema
- Inks
- Jack Abel; John Verpoorten
- Colors
- Linda Lessman; ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Steve
- Genre
- non-fiction; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Man-Thing; The Foolkiller, The Watcher
- Keywords
- Marvel Value Stamp
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Mike Lazrone, Johm Drake, Robert L. Thompson, and J. Breen Allen. Marvel Value Stamp, Series A, #37, The Watcher is on the second letters page. A vignette on the first letters page is from an earlier issue and depicts The Foolkiller standing over a prone Man-Thing. Marvel Value Stamp is a vignette from the cover of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #113.
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