(August 1974)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-04-30
- 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 United States of America
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Thing in Cell 13!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Larry Lieber; John Romita (alterations)
- Inks
- Al Milgrom ?; John Romita (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Lieber/Romita/Milgrom credits per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Original indexer credited Romita with pencils and inks.
The Thing in Cell 13
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [V-26]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hans Vogez
- Synopsis
- A corrupt police chief uses frivolous fines to fund a giant useless prison in order to increase his own prestige. He imprisons a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is the leader of a group of aliens who are in such a rush to leave that they take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced and humbled.
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #81 (February 1961) [as "The Thing in Cell 13"] -
in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #35 ([Juillet 1974]) -
in Thor (Ediciones Vértice, 1974 series) #v2#23 (Agosto 1976)
-
Greed!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Tumlinson
- Inks
- Pete Tumlinson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [E-854]
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A researcher receives telepathic signals from evil Martians, now long dead, who want him to build a machine that will allow them to cross space and conquer Earth. The gold that he gets through the machine as payment is now molten and buries him.
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (December 1954)
- in Le Tombeau de Dracula (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #17
-
Indexer Notes
reprint mistakenly identified as from Astonishing Tales #36
I, the Robot
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Romita
- Inks
- John Romita
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [D-922]
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The Human Robot [M-11]
- Synopsis
- A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal the robot after it has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.
- Reprints
- from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #11 (May 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
The Human Robot next appears in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #9, in the superhero team eventually known as the Agents of Atlas.
The Invaders
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Steve Ditko
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface, whereupon the ships sink like stones.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #34 (August 1962)
- in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #38 ([Octobre 1974])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Thing in Cell 13!
-
1.
The Thing in Cell 13
-
2.
Greed!
-
3.
I, the Robot
-
4.
The Invaders
-
5.
Bullpen Bonus Page
Spider-Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.