(August 1975)

Marvel, 1975 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD
Pages
76
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Editing
Marv Wolfman (credited) (editor); Archie Goodwin (credited) (consulting editor); John Warner (credited) (assistant editor); Michele Wolfman (credited) (photo editor)

Issue Notes

This first issue is dedicated to Lester Dent-the man who began it all!
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Doc Savage / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Roger Kastel (credited) (painting)
Inks
Roger Kastel (credited) (painting)
Colors
Roger Kastel (credited) (painting)
Letters
typeset
Genre
adventure; superhero
Characters
Doc Savage
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The Two Faces of Doc Savage (Table of Contents: 1)

Doc Savage / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
James Bama (credited) (painting); ? (photography)
Inks
James Bama (credited) (painting); ? (photography)
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Characters
Doc Savage (photograph of Ron Ely); Doc Savage
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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.
Photograph of Ron Ely standing next to a painting of Doc Savage by James Bama.

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

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Buscema (credited) (illustration); ? (photography)
Inks
Tony DeZuniga (credited) (illustration); ? (photography)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Doc Savage; Doc Savage (photograph of Ron Ely)
Reprints

An Editorial in Bronze (Table of Contents: 3)

Doc Savage / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Marv Wolfman (credited)
Pencils
? (photography)
Inks
? (photography)
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Characters
Doc Savage (photograph of Ron Ely)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Photograph of Ron Ely as Doc Savage.

A Return to Greatness! (Table of Contents: 4)

Doc Savage / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Tony DeZuniga
Letters
?
Genre
adventure; superhero
Characters
Doc Savage; Ham; Monk; Long Tom; Renny; Johnny
Reprints

The Doom On Thunder Isle! (Table of Contents: 5)

Doc Savage / comic story / 52 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils
John Buscema (credited) (pages 1-21, 23-35, 37-52); John Romita (pages 22, 36)
Inks
Tony DeZuniga (credited)
Letters
John Costanza
First Line of Dialogue or Text
A newly constructed tower of glass and steel stabs the sky above Manhattan's East 78th Street.
Genre
adventure; superhero
Characters
Doc Savage [Doctor Clark Savage Jr.]; Monk [Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett Mayfair]; Ham [Brigadier General Theodore Marley Brooks]; Renny [Colonel John Renwick]; Long Tom [Major Thomas J. Roberts]; Johnny [William Harper Littlejohn]; Angelica Tremaine (also in flashback); Winston Tremaine (also in flashback); The Silver Ziggurat [Thomas J. Bolt] (introduction, villain, dies); Jarvis Reeves (death); Wiggins Tripp (death)
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Indexer Notes

Editorial notes Romita's contributions.

Posters from the Original Conan Paperback Covers (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Supergraphics / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Black Dragon Fighting Society / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Universal Bodybuilding / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

George Pal: The Man Who Shot Doc Savage! Part 1 (Table of Contents: 9)

Doc Savage / text article / 7.25 pages (report information)

Script
Chris Claremont (credited)
Pencils
? (photography)
Inks
? (photography)
Letters
typeset
Genre
adventure; superhero
Characters
Doc Savage (photographs of Ron Ely)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Article on Doc Savage movie.

Very Very Special People. (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Broadway Bookfinders / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

I'll Make You a Master of Karate (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Precise Publications / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Crazy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

George Pal: The Man Who Shot Doc Savage! Part 2 (Table of Contents: 13)

Doc Savage / text article / 2.75 pages (report information)

Script
Jim Harmon (credited)
Pencils
? (photography)
Inks
? (photography)
Letters
typeset
Genre
adventure; superhero
Characters
Doc Savage (photograph of Ron Ely)
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Sherlock Holmes / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Demaru, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Duraclean International / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

La Salle Extension University / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Doc Savage
  2. 1. The Two Faces of Doc Savage
    Doc Savage
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
  4. 3. An Editorial in Bronze
    Doc Savage
  5. 4. A Return to Greatness!
    Doc Savage
  6. 5. The Doom On Thunder Isle!
    Doc Savage
  7. 6. Posters from the Original Conan Paperback Covers
    Supergraphics
  8. 7. ["The world's deadliest fighting secrets can be yours…"]
    Black Dragon Fighting Society
  9. 8. ["Impossible? Not for the super bodybuilding System!"]
    Universal Bodybuilding
  10. 9. George Pal: The Man Who Shot Doc Savage! Part 1
    Doc Savage
  11. 10. Very Very Special People.
    Broadway Bookfinders
  12. 11. I'll Make You a Master of Karate
    Precise Publications
  13. 12. ["Crazy is funnier than President Ford..."]
    Crazy
  14. 13. George Pal: The Man Who Shot Doc Savage! Part 2
    Doc Savage
  15. 14. ["Before Sam Spade..."]
    Sherlock Holmes
  16. 15. ["Scary, life size monster ghost"]
  17. 16. ["You'll be a master of self defense..."]
    Demaru, Inc.
  18. 17. ["When I planned to retire before fifty this Is the business that made it possible"]
    Duraclean International
  19. 18. ["Have you seen this coupon before?"]
    La Salle Extension University
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  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Clayton Graham
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Mark Q
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Edvin Salihovic
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Douglas Sederberg
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