Cover pencils by George Perez, inks by Ernie Chan. A Study in Survival! The Power Principle Part Two, script by David Anthony Kraft, pencils by Mike Golden (pages 1, 6-14) and Keith Giffen (pages 2-3, 15-18), inks by Bob McLeod
A nuclear explosion set by Sergei to give himself and the Red Guardian super powers causes the Defenders to be trapped at the bottom of the ocean and almost drown. Fury Times 5!, script by Scott Edelman, pencils by Juan Ortiz, inks by Bruce Patterson; Fury battles a group of Fury LMDs at S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters. Spider-Man stars in a one-page Hostess ad, Legal Eagle. Spalding Presents Street Ball with Rick Barry and Dr. J! ad, art by Jack Davis.
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First 35-cent cover price issue. The Power Principle Part One The Prince and The Presence!, script by David Anthony Kraft, pencils by Dave Cockrum (pg 1), Keith Giffen (pp 2,3,10,11,15,17,18), and Mike Golden (pp 6,7,14,16), inks by Terry Austin
Defenders travel to Atlantis to determine the source of radiation that is killing the Atlanteans. Clea, the Mystic Maiden!, script by Naomi Basner, pencils by Sandy Plunkett, inks by Tony Salmons; Nicodemus disguises himself as a mugger to get the jump on Clea.
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"And in This Corner: the New Emissaries of Evil," a.k.a. Rhino, Solarr, the Cobalt Man, and Egghead! Gerry Conway, pencils by Keith Giffen, inks by Klaus Janson.
Spider-Man stars in a one-page Hostess ad, "The Spider-Man and the Fly!" O.J. Simpson stars in a half-page shoe ad. The letters page contains the "Howard the Duck Weakly Campaign Update # 3" (yes, that's "weakly," not "weekly"). Jack Kirby cover pencils.
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"From The Ashes" Plot by Chris Claremont. Script by Roger McKenzie. Art by Sal Buscema (breakdowns) and Don Perlin (finishes). Cover by Keith Pollard and Al Milgrom.
In a heartbreaking moment, Captain America views a news videotape -- that confirms Sharon Carter's fiery death four issues ago. After watching the tape, the devastated shield-slinger decides that it's time to make changes to his personal life. So Steve Rogers begins a new career as a commercial artist and moves into a townhouse in Brooklyn Heights. At his new townhouse, Steve meets an elderly resident named Anna Kapplebaum. They seem to have met somewhere before...decades ago...under the most dire circumstances. Cameo appearances by Peter Parker, Nick Fury, the Beast, Falcon, Ms. Marvel, Vision, and the Wasp.
32 pages. Cover price $0.40.
"To Stalk the Killer Skies!" Guest-starring Daredevil. Script by Roger McKenzie. Art by Sal Buscema (breakdowns) and Jack Abel (finishes). Cover by Ed Hannigan and Joe Rubinstein.
Inside the National Force's waterfront warehouse, the Sentinel of Liberty comes to his senses -- and remembers that Daredevil is his friend. But it may be too late, once the National Force sets the warehouse on fire! Amazingly, Cap and the Man Without Fear escape the huge blaze...and continue their pursuit of Dr. Faustus and the Grand Director. A while later at the Lakehurst Air Pavilion in New Jersey, Daredevil and the shield-slinger find their foes! And not a moment too soon as the National Force has loaded a dirigible airship with a special mind-gas -- which Dr. Faustus plans to release over Manhattan! Unfortunately, the dirigible gets airborne before anyone can stop it. So Cap and Daredevil must get airborne themselves...courtesy of a World War I biplane! Is the Living Legend a flying ace? Cameo appearances by Commissioner Feingold and Peggy Carter. (Notes: Frank Miller is credited as "special water tower consultant" for this issue. The letters page includes letters from comics writer Kurt Busiek and comics historian Peter Sanderson, respectively.)
32 pages. Cover price $0.40.
"Cap's Back!" Part 1 of 3. Script by Steve Englehart. Pencils by Herb Trimpe. Inks by Frank Giacoia and Mike Esposito. Cover by Gil Kane (pencils) and John Romita Sr. (inks).
Great news! Captain America is back! And right on time because the Red Skull is too! The Third Reich's terror mastermind survived his fall in Captain America 148, and now he returns with a new scheme to destroy America! But the skull isn't planning to use military force or a great weapon of some kind. He plans to decimate the country economically by killing the members of the Federal Open Market Committee -- the group that sets U.S. economic policy. In Washington D.C., the Red Skull claims his first victim via his infamous dust of death! The sinister skull is so confident he brags to Cap about his next target. Thus Cap and the Falcon rush to the home of the next committee member! And along with Peggy Carter and Gabe Jones, they set up a defensive perimeter. But then they hear Chopin's Funeral March playing...and chills run down their spines! Death is on the way for someone! Cameo appearances by Leila Taylor, Sharon Carter, and Dave Cox. (Notes: The letters page includes a letter from comics publisher Dean Mullaney. The letters page also contains Marvel Value Stamp series A #94 Electro by Steve Ditko.) 32 pages.
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With Marvel Value Stamp. Cover by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia. Burn While You Learn!, script by Mary Skrenes and Steve Gerber, art by Jim Mooney
Omega the Unknown battles Electro; the Living Robot appears.
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Cover by Rich Buckler and Al Milgrom.
Welcome to Hell's Kitchen!; Omega the Unknown battles the Incredible Hulk; Electro and the Living Robot appear.
36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.
1st printing. Collects Vision (2015 3rd Series) #1-12 and the extras from Vision (2017) Directors Cut 1-6.Written by Tom King. Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta and Michael Walsh. Cover by Mike Del Mundo.WINNER OF 2017 Eisner AWARD for Best Limited Series! One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, collected alongside an expansive array of special features!Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning - to the laboratory where Ultron created him as a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his destiny and imagined that he could be more - that he could be a man. There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. Teenage twins, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They have his powers. They share his grandest ambition - or obsession? - the unrelenting need to be ordinary. Behold the Visions!Theirs is a story of togetherness and tragedy - one that will set the Android Avenger on course for a devastating confrontation with Earth's Mightiest Heroes.Hardcover, 488 pages, full color.Cover price $39.99.
Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Thor (1998-2004 2nd Series) #1-35 and ROUGH CUT, Silver Surfer (1987 2nd Series) Annual 1998, Thor (1998-2004 2nd Series) Annual 1999-2000, Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999-2003) #2 and 11, Iron Man (1998-2004 3rd Series) #21 (B STORY) and #22, and Juggernaut: The Eighth Day (1999).Written by Dan Jurgens, Howard Mackie, Kurt Busiek, Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco, J.M. DeMattis. Art by Ramon Bernado, Mark Pennington, John Romita Jr., Mark Bagley, Sean Chen, Dan Jurgens, and Klaus Jansen. Cover by John Romita, Jr.A hero returns - and an epic saga begins! Dan Jurgens ushers in one of the greatest eras of Thor - and it begins with blockbuster art by John Romita Jr.! The Thunder God walks the Earth once more, but his new lease on life comes with new enemies - and a new mortal alter ego! Will Thor's comeback be cut short by Dark Gods, the Destroyer and Doctor Doom? Then, on the Eighth Day, the unstoppable Juggernaut will be just the beginning for Thor, Iron Man and Spider-Man! The heavy hitters keep on coming - like Mangog and Thanos! But if Thor is busy saving Midgard, who's protecting Asgard?Hardcover, 1,232 pages, full cover.Cover price $125.00.
Cover by Ron Wilson and Klaus Janson. Bury My Heart In the City of Gold, script by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema and Sonny Trinidad
Jim Scully and his crew arrive at the Incan City of Gold led by the guide Villac Umu; Upon arrival Umu turns on them and they are captured by Viracocha the Supreme Inca; Meanwhile back in Florida, Jeff Turner's father, Senator Stoneface Turner is extorting Scully's ex-Nam nemesis Freddy Lancer to fly into the Bermuda Triangle and bring his son back; Lancer has secured a fleet of used jet fighters from an African war and a crew of mercenaries including a mean number called Newkirk; Lancer reveals that he is not only motivated by the money Senator Turner is paying him but also has a score to settle with Scully from their days in Viet-Nam; Back in the City of Gold, Scully and his friends are led to a towering ziggurat which looks suspiciously like a good place for human sacrifice; As the sun rises a shadow is cast from the ziggurat that triggers the opening of pits that swallow up Ray, Anne and Jeff into one pit and Scully into another; The imperiled three must face a pair of chained pteranodons with just enough reach to tear their heads off.
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Cover by Ron Wilson and Frank Giacoia. Tumult in the Tower of Time, script by Marv Wolfman, art by Steve Gan, Pablo Marcos, and Steve Gan
Skull's feud with Corey worsens as the group wanders the prehistoric landscape, but then things become even more confusing when they find the corpses of dozens of other castaways in the Triangle staked out near a mysterious Tower of alien origin... and, entering it, find that every level appears to exist in a different time period! Skull finds himself battling robot dinosaurs, while Corey is trapped by slavemasters in what appears to be ancient Egypt. Marvel Value Stamp.
36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.
Cover by Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins. Time Out of Mind!, script by Steve Englehart, art by Sal Buscema and Mike Esposito
Skull and his comrades learn the secret of the Tower of Time, constructed by the Scorpians in Earth's prehistory as a way of keeping their robots busy, but soon to be the staging post for Slitherogue's attempt to conquer time itself; Ann, Jeff and Corey seemingly die at the hands of Slitherogue's servants, but Skull falls through the Tower and ends up in what appears to be Camelot, where Merlin and the Black Knight decide to assist him, believing Slitherogue to be a demon. Spider-Man and the Cupcake Caper Hostess Cup Cakes ad, art by Mike Esposito. Marvel Value Stamp.
36 pgs., full color. $0.25. Cover price $0.25.
Cover by Rich Buckler and Dan Adkins. Magic, Myth and Madness!, script by Bill Mantlo, art by Sal Buscema and Sonny Trinidad
Skull finds himself battling to save Camelot alongside the Black Knight, but when Morgan Le Fay's troops arrive, he is horrified to discover Corey, Jeff and Ann fighting on their side; his friends were never dead, only transmuted by Slitherogue, but they haven't forgiven or forgotten Scully running out on them and they're out for revenge; The fighting stops when Corey is wounded and the Black Knight destroys Morgan, but then the Knight reveals that he too is a robot like Morgan and all the others; As the Knight leaves and the robots prepare to rebuild to fight another day, Skull vows to get his reluctant, mistrustful 'team' out of the Tower of Time.
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A Gathering of Vultures: Part 1 of 2 - "A Gathering of Vultures!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Lee Elias and Ricardo Villamonte (pages 1-10) and Tex Blaisdell (pages 11-17). Cover by Lee Elias and Rudy Nebres.
Reporter Harmony Whyte continues her expose on the mysterious masked stuntman/adventurer the Human Fly. Meanwhile, the Fly finds himself caught up in the middle of a feud with deadly consequences. 32 pages, FC. NOTE: This issue features a Pieta Cover.
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"Photo-Finish!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Bob Lubbers and Don Perlin. Cover by Bob Hall.
Leading up to the Fly's latest death-defying stunt, every single trial run has failed. This would stop a normal man from even trying it, but not the Human Fly. Get ready for yet another amazing feat of ultimate human bravery and physical achievement.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.35.
"Death Rides the Big Balloons!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Frank Robbins and Steve Leialoha. Cover by Bob Lubbers and Bob McLeod.
In order to the stop a runaway blimp over the streets of New York City and save the lives of children, the Human Fly must perform some of the most death-defying acrobatics yet.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.35.
"Slope of Death!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Frank Robbins and Frank Springer. Cover by Bob Lubbers and Bob McLeod.
When an overzealous camera man attempts to expose the Human Fly as a fraud in the middle of a highly dangerous stunt, an accident forces the Fly to rescue the man.
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"Silver Charity, Sudden Death!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Lee Elias and Mike Esposito. Cover by Frank Robbins and Ernie Chan.
When a stunt goes horribly wrong, the Human Fly barely survives. Can our hero overcome his past failure and conquer his lasts challenge?
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Part 1 of 2 - "The Tiger and the Fly!" Guest-starring White Tiger. Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Frank Robbins.
The Human Fly joins forces with the kung fu hero, the White tiger, but even their combined might may not be able to stop the villainous Copperhead.
32 pages, FC. NOTE: Copperhead was last seen in the pages of Daredevil (1964-1998 1st Series) #125. Cover price $0.35.
"Fear in Funland!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art Frank Robbins and Rod Santiago. Cover by Frank Robbins and Frank Giacoia.
When the Human Fly takes a group of disabled children out for a day of fun at a world famous amusement park, he is startled to discover a stolen car ring operating below the park's surface.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.35.
"Fire in the Night!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art Frank Robbins and Rod Santiago. Cover by Frank Robbins and Joe Sinnott.
The Human Fly attempts to rescue a class of disabled children from a towering inferno started by a madman that has been pushed to the brink.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.35.
Part 2 of 2 - "Rocky Mountain Nightmare!" Two men of wealth and power claim to be the father of one lone girl and when they go to war, not even the Human Fly may be able to stop them.
Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Lee Elias and Rod Santiago. Cover by Sal Buscema and Terry Austin.
32 pages, FC. Cover price $0.35.
Part 1 of 2 - "Castle in the Clouds!" Written by Bill Mantlo. Art by Lee Elias and Don Perlin. Cover by Dave Cockrum and Joe Sinnott. A rich man enlist the help of the Human Fly to rescue his daughter that has been kidnapped. But the Fly soon discovers that there is more to this caper than meets the eye.
32 pages, FC.
Cover price $0.35.
