(March 1976)
Marvel,
1976 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-09-16
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Marv Wolfman (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #122.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
A Horde of Steel Assassins!
Omega the Unknown / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Hannigan (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Omega the Unknown
- Reprints
-
in Omega the Unknown (Yaffa / Page, 1974 ? series) #1, #4 -
in Gli Eterni (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #2 (Aprile 1978) -
in Omega: The Unknown Classic (Marvel, 2005 series) ([December] 2005) - in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #3 (2012)
- in True Believers: Annihilation - Omega the Unknown (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (February 2020), #1 (February 2020)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Omega the Unknown (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 (2023) [Marvel Masterworks border trade dress]
-
Indexer Notes
Letters credit from Todd Klein via The Crespi Files posted on Facebook 17 May 2018. Originally letters credit given to Danny Crespi.
![Cover Thumbnail for Omega the Unknown (1976 series) #1 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/896/w100/896118.jpg?3754465913078175924)
Omega the Unknown
Omega the Unknown / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Mary Skrenes; Steve Gerber
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney
- Inks
- Jim Mooney
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- JV-140
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Omega [Model X32] (introduction); James-Michael Starling (introduction, origin revealed in Defenders #77); Ruth Hart; Mr. Starling (introduction, death, robot); Mrs. Starling (introduction, death, robot); Dr. Thomas Barrow (introduction); Amber Grant (introduction); Living Robots (introduction, villains)
- Reprints
- in Gli Eterni (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #1 (Marzo 1978) [part 1], #2 (Aprile 1978) [part 2]
-
in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #17 (4ème trimestre 1979) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]] - in Omega: The Unknown Classic (Marvel, 2005 series) ([December] 2005)
- in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #3 (2012)
- in True Believers: Annihilation - Omega the Unknown (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (February 2020)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Omega the Unknown (Marvel, 2023 series) #1 (2023)
-
Indexer Notes
Credited as "Conceived and written by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes"
[no title indexed]
Omega Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Steve Gerber
- Pencils
- John Romita ? (illustration)
- Inks
- John Romita ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Gerber recounts the genesis of Omega.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
A Horde of Steel Assassins!
Omega the Unknown -
1.
Omega the Unknown
Omega the Unknown -
2.
[no title indexed]
Omega Mail
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Gary Henderson
- Michael Hoskin
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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