(27 April 1974)

Marvel UK, 1973 Series
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Price
0.06 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Weekly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics International Ltd.
Brand
Marvel Comics Group
Barcode
?
Editing
Peter L. Skingley (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ron Wilson ?
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
?
Cover Thumbnail for Spider-Man Comics Weekly (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #63
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Where Fly the Winged Furies! (Table of Contents: 1)

Spider-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
John Romita (credited) (layouts); Don Heck (credited)
Inks
Mike Esposito (credited)
Colors
? (grey tones)
Letters
Sam Rosen
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Instant synopsis: the original Vulture is alive! And he's just busted Blackie Drago out of prison!
Feature Logo
The Amazing Spider-Man
Genre
superhero
Characters
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Vulture [Adrian Toomes]; Vulture [Blackie Drago]; Gwen Stacy; Captain Stacy; Harry Osborn; J. Jonah Jameson; Betty Brant; Professor Miles Warren; Green Goblin (flashback); Kraven (flashback)
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Indexer Notes

Second part of story with a new splash page made up of the original cover illustration with the original masthead replaced by the new title and credits added.

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

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Web and the Hammer / letters page / 0.5 page (report information)

Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Thor

Indexer Notes

Includes one panel taken from a Thor story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Airfix / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page (report information)

Duel of the Armoured Titans! (Table of Contents: 5)

Iron Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited) (plot); Robert Bernstein (credited as R. Berns)
Pencils
Don Heck (credited)
Inks
Don Heck (credited)
Colors
? (grey tones)
Letters
Artie Simek (credited)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The one-line intro: the Crimson Dynamo, master of electricity has come to America to destroy Iron Man.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Crimson Dynamo [Anton Vanko] (introduction, origin); Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev; Happy Hogan; Pepper Potts
Synopsis
Khrushchev sends the Crimson Dynamo to the United States to "wreck Stark's project and get rid of Iron Man." Iron Man defeats the Crimson Dynamo and convinces him to defect.
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Keywords
Iron curtain

Indexer Notes

Second part of story with a new splash page made up of the original cover illustration with the original masthead replaced by the new title and credits added.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

in-house column / 2 pages (report information)

In Human Form! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee [early- to mid-career])
Pencils
Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
Inks
Steve Ditko (signed as S. Ditko)
Letters
Artie Simek
First Line of Dialogue or Text
It would probably be great to be able to change yourself into any form you desired!
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Zogg
Synopsis
Alien invaders send a shapeshifting scout to disguise himself as one of Earth's dominant lifeform, but he mistakenly takes the form of a house fly and is swatted.
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And Who Shall Stand for Hercules! (Table of Contents: 8)

Thor / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Jack Kirby (credited)
Inks
Vince Colletta
Colors
? (grey tones)
Letters
Artie Simek
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Tragedy in Olympus: Pluto has tricked the son of Zeus into signing an Olympian contract.
Feature Logo
The Mighty Thor!
Genre
superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Thor [Donald Blake]; Hercules; Zeus; Dionysius (introduction); Pluto; Jane Foster; Tana Nile (introduction); Odin; Balder; Ares (introduction); Hermes (introduction)
Synopsis
Thor agrees to fight Pluto's minions in Hades on behalf of Hercules.
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Indexer Notes

Second part of story with a new splash page made up of panels 2-5 of page 8 of the original story with panel one replaced by the new title and a story update plus Stan and Jack credits.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Mighty World of Marvel; The Avengers / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Where Fly the Winged Furies!
    Spider-Man
  3. 2. ["Item! It isn't generally known, but many of our merry Marvel artists are also talented story men in their own right!"]
    Bullpen Bulletins
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Web and the Hammer
  5. 4. ["Heroes of World War II"]
    Airfix
  6. 5. Duel of the Armoured Titans!
    Iron Man
  7. 6. ["Art competition: The winners"]
  8. 7. In Human Form!
  9. 8. And Who Shall Stand for Hercules!
    Thor
  10. 9. ["Double dynamite"]
    Mighty World of Marvel; The Avengers
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