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Issue: MGM's Marvelous Wizard of Oz #1

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Publication Date: January 1975

Issue #1

Detail

Issues: #1 of 1 Issue

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Marvel; DC

Brand: Marvel and DC Present

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group and National Periodical Publications Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/05/1975

Volume: 1

Pages: 84

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 10 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Roy Thomas

Notes: This is the first joint publication between DC and Marvel.

Full indicia:

"MGM'S Marvelous Wizard of Oz is published jointly by Marvel Comics Group and National Periodical Publications, Inc. and with the permission of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Office of Publication: 575 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10022. Published quarterly. Copyright ©1975 by Marvel Comics Group, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation and National Periodical Publications, Inc. Stan Lee Publisher. Based on material Copyright ©1939 Loew's Inc. Renewed ©1966 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. All rights reserved. Vol. 1, Number 1, 1975. Price $1.50 per copy in the U.S. and Canada. Subscription rate $6.50 for 4 issues. Canada $7.50. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A. All business inquiries should be addressed to Tom Montemarano, Director of Circulation, 9th floor. Sol Brodsky, V.P. Administration. Roy Thomas, Editor; John Verpoorten, Production Manager; John Romita, Art Director."

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: tabloid

Paper Stock: glossy cardstock cover; newsprint interior

Binding: squarebound

Publishing Format: one-shot

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

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): John Romita (signed)

Inker(s): John Romita (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino ? (logo)

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): The Tin Woodsman; Dorothy Gale; The Cowardly Lion; The Scarecrow; Toto

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crossover Classics: The Marvel / DC Collection #[1] published February 1991
as MGM's Marvelous Wizard of Oz #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 1

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz

Credits on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): Dorothy Gale (as portrayed by Judy Garland); The Scarecrow (as portrayed by Ray Bolger); The Tin Woodsman (as portrayed by Jack Haley); The Cowardly Lion (as portrayed by Bert Lahr)

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Pages: 1

Notes: A photo from the movie ("Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!"), and the credits for the movie. Located on the inside front cover.

Contents

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Romita

Inker(s): John Romita

Colorist(s): Glynis Wein

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): Dorothy Gale; The Wicked Witch of the West; Toto

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Comic book credits and a dedication to Judy Garland.

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's The Wizard of Oz

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas (adaptation); Noll Langley (screenplay); Florence Ryerson (screenplay); Edgar Allan Wolfe (screenplay)

Penciller(s): John Buscema

Inker(s): Tony DeZuniga; The Tribe

Colorist(s): Glynis Wein

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino [as Lisa Petergreg]

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): The Tin Woodsman; The Cowardly Lion; Dorothy Gale; The Scarecrow; Toto; Uncle Henry [Henry Gale]; Antie Em [Emily Gale]; Hunk; Hickory; Zeke; Miss Gulch [Elvira Gulch]; Professor Marvel; The Wicked Witch of the West (death); Glinda, the Witch of the North; The Munchkins; The Wicked Witch of the East (death); The Wizard; Flying Monkeys; The Winkies; Mrs. Appleby (cameo); Farmer Johnson (cameo); Mr. Lumkin (cameo)

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Pages: 72

Notes: Adapting the 1939 film based on the book by L. Frank Baum. Gaspar Saladino is credited on the credits page; Lisa Petergreg on the story itself. He frequently used an alias of "LP Gregory" at Marvel during this time.

The American Grimm

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Penciller(s): John Romita [as J. R.] (signed)

Inker(s): John Romita [as J. R.] (signed)

Colorist(s): Glynis Wein

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): L. Frank Baum

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Pages: 1

Notes: Biography of L. Frank Baum.

Who's Who in MGM's Oz

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Don Glut

Penciller(s): Marie Severin

Inker(s): Marie Severin

Colorist(s): Glynis Wein

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): Judy Garland; Frank Morgan; Ray Bolger; Jack Haley; Margaret Hamilton; Bert Lahr

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Pages: 3

Notes: Biographies of the movie's stars.

Map of the Marvelous Land of Oz

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ed Hannigan [as EJH] (signed)

Inker(s): Ed Hannigan [as EJH] (signed)

Colorist(s): Glynis Wein

Letterer(s): Ed Hannigan

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Oz

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Pages: 2

Coming OZtractions

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas ?

Penciller(s): John Buscema

Inker(s): John Buscema

Colorist(s): Glynis Wein ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Oz

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: A house ad for the "second issue of the Marvel Treasury of Oz!"; "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "On sale November 11th". This turned out to be Marvel Treasury of Oz (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (1975).

2 Memorable Scenes from MGM's "Wizard of Oz"

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): The Wicked Witch of the West (as portrayed by Margaret Hamilton); Dorothy Gale (as portrayed by Judy Garland); The Scarecrow (as portrayed by Ray Bolger); The Tin Woodsman (as portrayed by Jack Haley); The Cowardly Lion (as portrayed by Bert Lahr); The Wizard (as portrayed by Frank Morgan)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Two photo scenes from the movie: "I'll get you my pretty-- and your little dog, too!" with the Witch threatening Dorothy, and a "hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the upper stratosphere" with the Wizard about to leave in the balloon. Located on the inside back cover.

"We're Off to See the Wizard..."

Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): John Romita (signed)

Inker(s): John Romita (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: fantasy

Feature(s): Oz

Character(s): Dorothy Gale; The Scarecrow; The Tin Woodsman; The Cowardly Lion; Toto

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.