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Issue: Marvel Preview #4
Publication Date: January 1976
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Issues: #4 of 24 Issues (25 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Archie Goodwin (Editor); John Warner (Associate Editor); Marv Wolfman (Consulting Editor); Roy Thomas (Consulting Editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard magazine size
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Splash page 29
 
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Marvel Preview Presents Star-Lord

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gray Morrow (signed, painting)
Inker(s): Gray Morrow (signed, painting)
Colorist(s): Gray Morrow (signed, painting)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Star-Lord
Character(s): Star-Lord [Peter Quill]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012
as Marvel Preview #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStar-Lord: The Hollow Crown #1 published August 2013
as Marvel Preview Presents Star-Lord [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Bernie Wrightson
Inker(s): Bernie Wrightson
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Star-Lord
Character(s): Star-Lord [Peter Quill]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStar-Lord: The Hollow Crown #1 published August 2013
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Frontispiece.
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Stan Lee Presents Marvel Preview Featuring Star-Lord

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Steve Gan
Inker(s): Steve Gan
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Say It's Space Opera and I Say to Hell with It!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Archie Goodwin
Penciller(s): John Fuller [as Fuller] (signed)
Inker(s): Rick Bryant (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Starlord: Who He Is and How He Came to Be

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Like everything else in life, this is a story that begins and ends with the cosmos.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012
as The Starlord: Who He Is and How He Came to Be [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStar-Lord: The Hollow Crown #1 published August 2013
as The Starlord: Who He Is and How He Came to Be [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text article with full page illustration.
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Starlord First House: Earth!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Bob McLeod (page 4, 9)
Inker(s): Bob McLeod (page 4, 9)
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Star-Lord
Character(s): Star-Lord [Peter Quill]; Jake Quill; Meredith Quill (death); Sheriff Barnes; Betty; Carol; Greg Harrelson; Master of the Sun
First Line: No one knows what the universe is.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012
as First House: Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagStar-Lord: The Hollow Crown #1 published August 2013
as Starlord First House: Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 32
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Whole New Worlds Await You in Marvel Preview!
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Pages: 1
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Introduction... Sword in the Star

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edward S. Barkan; Bill Mantlo
Penciller(s): Keith Giffen (illustration)
Inker(s): Bob McLeod (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: To begin with, we've been asked to say something...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Text article with one illustration, one photograph and one reproduction of an old fine art print or painting.
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The Sword in the Star! Stave 1: Alas, the Seeds of Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Sword In The Star
Character(s): Prince Wayfinder; Delphos; Alkinoos
First Line: It has not been long since the black ships completed their last pass over the field of battle...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagStar Wars Weekly #6 published March 1978
as The Sword in the Star! Stave I: Alas, the Seeds of Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Pages 5-8
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
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Next Issue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Thorne (illustration)
Inker(s): Frank Thorne (illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Sherlock Holmes
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes; Doctor Watson
First Line: The greatest mystery-adventure hero of them all...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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These Are The Hunters... Man Is The Prey! On...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ron Wilson (pencils); Greg Theakston (signed)(painting)
Inker(s): Greg Theakston (signed)(painting); John Romita (red highlights and gun glint)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Planet Of The Apes
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagPlanet of the Apes #9 published June 1975
was Kingdom of the Apes! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ron Wilson and John Romita credits from Greg Theakston (via a conversation with Stephan Friedt on November 21, 2013).
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Towering Above All Other Adventure Heroes!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tony DeZuniga
Inker(s): Tony DeZuniga
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Doc Savage
Character(s): Doc Savage; Monk Mayfair; Johnny Littlejohn; Renny Renwick; Ham Brooks; Long Tom Roberts
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Marvel Preview Featuring Star-Lord

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Romita ?
Inker(s): John Romita ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Star-Lord [Peter Quill]
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Illustration appears to be a costume design by John Romita.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Gene Colan
Inker(s): Tony DeZuniga
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Preview Review
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: letters page with 2 partial panels by Colan & DeZuniga from Marvel Preview #3 (Blade the Vampire-Slayer).
Letters from Howard Kaye, Sheila Thompson, Zu Bell, Jerry Wrenn, Richard Guion, Ed Maietta, John Elliot, Dale A. Beach, Bruce Patterson, Jackie Frost, and Roger Klorese.

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