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Issue: Marvel Super-Heroes #12
Publication Date: December 1967
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Issues: #12 of 94 Issues (138 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/10/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1968, page 209, registration number B462168.
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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:  
Disclose Reprinted In13
Disclose Reprinted From5
Disclose Images1
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The Coming of Captain Marvel!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Captain Mar-Vell]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #1 published January 1980
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel #1 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel #1 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Captain Marvel #1 published January 2008
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Marvel Super-Heroes #12] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Possible logo design credits from Todd Klein via his Facebook posting Comics Logos C #20: CAPTAIN MARVEL on 16 July 2021.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: This is the one you've been waiting for...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover, issue credits, listing of stories with one panel reprinted from each story. Credits include Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, Gary Friedrich, John Verpoorten, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and Flo Steinberg.
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The Coming of Captain Marvel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Captain Mar-Vell] (a Kree, introduction); Medic Una (introduction); Jeremy Logan; crew of a Kree starship; Colonel Yon-Rogg (introduction); Zarek (introduction); Smith
Synopsis: A Kree mission is sent to infiltrate Earth's defenses.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel #1 published April 1970
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #15 published October 1971
as La venuta di Capitan Marvel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #16 published November 1971
as La venuta di Capitan Marvel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagCaptain Marvel #36 [unnamed variant] published January 1975
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Super-Heroes #1 published January 1980
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel #1 [Regular Edition] published September 2005
as The Coming Of Captain Marvel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Captain Marvel #1 published January 2008
as The Coming of Captain Marvel! [Marvel Super-Heroes #12] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: The feature was created at the request of publisher Martin Goodman to secure the name Captain Marvel away from the competition. The appropriation occurred in three steps: Marvel Super-Heroes featuring Captain Marvel (December 1967), then Marvel's Space-Born Superhero! Captain Marvel #1 (May 1968), then Captain Marvel #7 (November 1968). In the introduction to Captain Marvel Masterworks volume 5, Roy Thomas informs us that a TV producer wanted a science-fictional hero named Captain Marvel to develop as a TV animation series.

Nevertheless, contrastingly with the feature name, the narrative voice-only calls the character "Captain Mar-Vell".

This feature shows influence by the TV series Star Trek (1966-1969) and The Invaders (1967-1968). Accordingly, with the main character's status as an alien spy, his spaceman costume is green, a color typically associated in this era with super-villains and threats to the human race.

Myron Fass, the owner, and publisher of M. F. Enterprises and their version of Captain Marvel, which he published from April 1966 to September 1967, had trademarked his Captain Marvel. Per articles in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Martin Goodman tried to purchase the rights to Captain Marvel from Fass for 6000.00 USD ($6000). Fass rejected the offer and Goodman published this issue anyway. Fass then filed suit in the State of New York for trademark infringement. The parties named in the lawsuit were Goodman, Stan Lee, Gene Colan, the printer Eastern Color Printing, and the distributor, the Independent News Company. Eventually, Fass settled the trademark lawsuit for 4500.00 USD ($4500), handing over the trademark of Captain Marvel to Marvel Comics.
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The Threat of the Jet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch; Toro; Betty Wilson; Chief Wilson; Bobby Macklin; Jet [Gary Akers] (introduction, death)
First Line: A city is like a human being!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMen's Adventures #27 published May 1954
was The Threat of the Jet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: E-241
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The Beachhead Blitz!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Destroyer [Keen Marlow]; Major Whalen; Hauptmann [Captain] Schnagel (introduction, villain); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Göring (villain); Joseph Goebbels (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: A British commando unit places the plans for the Second Front into the hands of the Destroyer, and his job is to get it to the French underground. What the Nazis don't know is that the plans are false and designed to trap the Nazis themselves.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #12 published January 1944
was The Beachhead Blitz! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Kill Captain America!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America; Bucky; Tim Potter; Kag; Commissar Kee-Sai
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMen's Adventures #28 published July 1954
was Kill Captain America! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Abduction of King Arthur

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical, superhero
Character(s): Black Knight [Sir Percy of Scandia]; Modred; Merlin; King Arthur; Guinevere; Gawain; Lancelot; Galahad
First Line: As silently as the breeze which softly played thru the ageless stones...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBlack Knight #1 published May 1955
was The Abduction of King Arthur! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Title from cover of BLACK KNIGHT #1.
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The Sub-Mariner Strikes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Namor the Sub-Mariner; Namora; Tha-Korr; Byrrah; Zolma (introduction)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSub-Mariner #38 published February 1955
was The Sub-Mariner Strikes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Who Says This Isn't the Marvel Age of Batty Bulletins?

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan's Soapbox, Items, The Mighty Marvel Checklist, Let's Meet 26 More M.M.M.S. Members!
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Dear Stan and the Bullpen, I liked "The Crime of the Ages!"
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from David Shields, Jim Kyzer, Jacob Kurtessis, and Scott Willet; includes one panel reproduction from a previous issue and next issue blurb.

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