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Issue: Giant-Size Man-Thing #1
Publication Date: August 1974
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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The Glob Strikes Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Man-Thing; Glob
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #2 published January 2012
as Giant-Size Man-Thing #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMan-Thing Omnibus #[nn] published October 2012
as The Glob Strikes Again! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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How Will We Keep Warm When the Last Flame Dies?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Man-Thing; The Glob; Paul Benton; Professor Marshall; Akar; Yagzan; Kamar; The Entropists; Richard Rory
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMan-Thing Omnibus #[nn] published October 2012
as How Will We Keep Warm When The Last Flame Dies? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
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Meditations on a Mound of Muck

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Man-Thing
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMan-Thing Omnibus #[nn] published October 2012
as Meditations On A Mound Of Muck [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: LOC from reader Guy C. Lawley and a half-page essay by Gerber.
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Ice-Monster Cometh!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Hugo Bogg; Ice-Monster
Synopsis: A criminal pretends to be the ice-monster when the real thing comes to call...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAmazing Adult Fantasy #11 [U.S. Cover Price] published April 1962
was The Ice Monster Cometh! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-568
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I Was the Invisible Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Adam Clayton (only appearance)
Synopsis: A scientist invents a device that allows him to run faster than light, becoming invisible. He uses this ability to anonymously show off, planning to soon reveal his discovery and become rich. However, traveling so fast ages him rapidly, so that after only a few weeks he is elderly and near death.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #67 published February 1959
was I Was the Invisible Man! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: T-97
Disclose Notes: Story mistakenly credited as reprinted from Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1. It was reprinted in Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2, but originally published in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #67.
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Goom! The Thing from Planet X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Goom (introduction, origin); Mark Langley (introduction); Helen Langley (introduction)
Synopsis: An astronomer sends radar waves to communicate with aliens, unfortunately attracting the attention of the hideous Goom who tries to conquer earth.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #15 published March 1961
was Goom! The Thing from Planet X!, Part 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #15 published March 1961
was Goom, Part 2 [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: V-87
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person. Goom's next published appearance is in Warlock and the Infinity Watch (Marvel, 1992 series) #7 (August 1992); while his next chronological appearance is in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005); he also appeared in Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (Marvel, 2005 series).

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