Targitt #3
(July 1975)

Seaboard, 1975 Series
Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1975-05-13
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Atlas Comics
Brand
Atlas Comics [separate triangular A]
Editing
Larry Lieber

Issue Notes

John Targitt ... Man-Stalker on cover.

On-sale date from internal document posted by Paul Kupperberg to Facebook on 17 September 2019 detailing release dates for various Atlas publications. Other information for this issue from that document:
Date material due at World Color Printers: March 18, 1975.
Date shipping of comic started: April 22, 1975.
Copies printed for U.S.A. and Canada: 245,000.
Copies printed for England: 15,000.
Total copies printed: 260,000.

[Professor Death!] (Table of Contents)

Targitt / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rich Buckler
Inks
Al Milgrom
Colors
?
Letters
Alan Kupperberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Anchors away, creeps!
Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Man-Stalker [John Targitt]; Professor Death [Professor Hannibal Burns]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Targitt / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway; Ric Meyers
Pencils
Howard Nostrand
Inks
Howard Nostrand ?
Colors
?
Letters
Alan Kupperberg

First Line of Dialogue or Text
If you were walking the street outside a certain Midtown Manhattan office building last night...
Genre
crime; superhero
Characters
Man-Stalker [John Targitt] (first uses codename); Carl (John's FBI boss); Jacqueline "Jackie" Brockett (FBI agent); Hunch (covert FBI agent); Peggy Brewer (FBI agent); Professor Death [Professor Hannibal Burns] (origin, death); Ralph Taubach / Taumbach (gang boss, both spellings used); Borden (death); Jonathan (death)

Indexer Notes

Credits were not specified but Meyers may have provided the plot and Conway the script.

John Targitt gets an upgraded costume and assumes the codename "The Man-Stalker".

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

Letters on Targitt! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Larry Lieber ?
Pencils
Rich Buckler (illustration)
Inks
Rich Buckler (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Steve Lamby, Larry A. Miller, Dick Vetner and Dee Dee Shanklin. Includes a house ad for Tales of Evil # 3.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Professor Death!]
    Targitt
  2. 1. ["If you were walking the street outside a certain Midtown Manhattan office building last night..."]
    Targitt
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Letters on Targitt!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • John Censullo
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen