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Issue: Marvel Super-Heroes #45

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Publication Date: September 1974

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Issues: #45 of 94 Issues (134 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 3 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Roy Thomas; Irene Vartanoff ? (reprint editor)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: squarebound (#12-31); saddle-stitched (#32-105)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Reprinted From2

2 Content Items
- The Abomination [Story on Interior Page(s)]1
- To Be Beaten by Byrrah [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times from Content Items in other Issues.

Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Assets0

Content Items (3 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Ron Wilson ?; Larry Lieber ?

Inker(s): Frank Giacoia

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Danny Crespi ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Incredible Hulk

Character(s): Hulk; Abomination; Stranger

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

The Incredible Hulk Omnibus #1 [Jack Kirby Cover] published May 2008
as Marvel Super-Heroes #45 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]1/4 page

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Abomination

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Gil Kane

Inker(s): Gil Kane

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Sam Rosen

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Incredible Hulk

Character(s): Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Betty Ross; Thunderbolt Ross; Glenn Talbot; Abomination [Emil Blonsky] (introduction, origin); Stranger

Synopsis: The Stranger leaves earth with the rampaging Hulk left behind to wreak destruction on his behalf. Turning back into his alter ego, Banner surrenders himself to Gamma base and tries to kill himself with radiation to stop the Hulk's destruction. Stopped before he can use his gamma machine, the machine is instead used by a foreign spy who is transformed into the Abomination. More powerful than even the Hulk, Abomination beats the jade giant down and kidnaps Betty as he escapes from the base.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Tales to Astonish #90 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1967
was The Abomination! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: vs. the Abomination, first and introduction.

To Be Beaten by Byrrah

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Stan Lee

Penciller(s): Bill Everett; Marie Severin ? (see notes)

Inker(s): Bill Everett; John Tartaglione ? (see notes)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Morrie Kuramoto [as Sherigail]

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Sub-Mariner

Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Lord Vashti; Lady Dorma; Byrrah (villain)

Synopsis: Namor's cousin wins the favor of the populace of Atlantis as well as the Atlantean council by belittling the regime of the Sub-Mariner as violent and unstable. He challenges Namor to single combat for the right to rule and no one is more surprised than the avenging son when his powers desert him during the fight and Byrrah handily wins.

Reprinting

From Content Item: Flag

Tales to Astonish #90 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1967
was To Be Beaten by Byrrah! [Story on Interior Page(s)]with 2 pages of the original story omitted

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Byrrah, Namor's cousin, is re-introduced from the continuity of the 1950s.

Pages 10-12 have uncredited art/corrections by Marie Severin with inking likely by John Tartaglione. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2014.