(August 1975)

Marvel, 1973 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1975-05-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Irene Vartanoff (reprint editor)

Issue Notes

On sale date from the Comic Reader #118.
This issue has variants:

Slaughter in Shangri-La! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ron Wilson
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi ?

Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Cover pencil credits by Ron Wilson, through Stu Neft on the GCD Error List (24 October 2006).

The Man Who Found Shangri-La! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway ?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[V-715]
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Harry Drumm; Paul Drumm
Synopsis
A thief uses his brother to find Shangri-La. He sees a ruin full of savages and flees into the mountains to die, while his brother finds paradise, since in Shangri-La everyone gets what they deserve.
Reprints

The Clock-Maker! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed)
Inks
Steve Ditko
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[V-627]
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect. When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him. The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him.
Reprints

GI Joe Meets the Amazing Atomic Man! (Table of Contents: 3)

G.I. Joe / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
Mike Esposito ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
adventure; war
Synopsis
GI Joe meets Major Mike Power, the Atomic Man.

Indexer Notes

ad for the GI Joe Adventure Team toys from Hasbro

I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks
Dick Ayers (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[T-738]
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Victor Cartwright (only appearance); Dragoom (introduction and origin)
Synopsis
Dragoom, a flaming monster from the planet Vulcan, arrives on Earth and terrorizes the planet. The military are helpless before him, but a monster movie director fools him into fleeing by using special effects to fake the arrival of police from Vulcan in pursuit of Dragoom.
Reprints
Keywords
monsters

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the first person. Dragoom next appears in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series) #6 (May 2006).

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Slaughter in Shangri-La!
  2. 1. The Man Who Found Shangri-La!
  3. 2. The Clock-Maker!
  4. 3. GI Joe Meets the Amazing Atomic Man!
    G.I. Joe
  5. 4. I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Nick Caputo
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Paul Lefebvre
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore