Astonishing Tales #35 [25¢]

(May 1976)

...And Once Removed From Never (Table of Contents: 1)

Deathlok / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Rich Buckler (plot); Bill Mantlo (script)

Pencils

Rich Buckler

Inks

Klaus Janson

Colors

Klaus Janson

Letters

Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Karen Mantlo

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Deathlok [Luther Manning]; Simon Ryker [Savior Machine] (villain); Hellinger (villain); Luther Manning II; Luther Manning III; Teresa Devereaux; Mike Travers; Doctor Wilcox; Tom

Synopsis

Deathlok manages to create a systems mind-lock which sends his mind into Simon Ryker's body and Simon Ryker's mind into his body. This causes Simon to go mad ending his threat. That job is over but Deathlok agrees to help the CIA with the threat from Hellinger. Cynthia Deveraux then helps to put Simon Ryker's mind back into his clone's body but something goes wrong and his mind ends up in both the clone's body and Deathlok's.

Reprints

• in Frankenstein (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #13 (3ème trimestre 1979) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Star Wars Weekly (Marvel UK, 1978 series) #113 (23 April 1980)
• in Biblioteca Marvel: Deathlok (Planeta DeAgostini, 2003 series) #[nn] (Diciembre 2003)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Deathlok (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 [Regular Edition] ([November] 2009)
• in Deathlok the Demolisher: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) (October 2014)

Indexer Notes

Produced by Rich Buckler, Gaspar Saladino Letters credit from George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Index #7B.

Marvel Treasury Editions (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Marvel Treasury Editions / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Mighty Marvel Checklist (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Mighty Marvel Checklist / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Marvel-Con '76! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Marvel-Con '76 / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Mindlocks (Table of Contents: 5)

Mindlocks / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from (and replies to) Jack Steinmann, Arthur Cadeaux, Peter Demonte and Glenn Rowsam, appears between pages 11 and 12 of the story sequence.

Marvel Bullpen Bulletins: More Merely Magnificent Marvel Madness Made To Move You To Mafficking! [May 1976]; Stan Lee's Soapbox (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Marvel Bullpen Bulletins; Stan Lee's Soapbox / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Spider-Man and the "Twinkie Takers" (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Hostess Twinkies; Spider-Man / advertisement / 1 page (report information)