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Issue: Marvel Comics Super Special #1
Publication Date: September 1977
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 06/27/1977
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860207706
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #144, June 1977, listed as September title with other September titles.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard U.S. magazine
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Credits
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Subject Matter
celebrity, horror, occult
Gene Simmons [The Demon]; Paul Stanley [Starchild]; Ace Frehley [Space Ace]; Peter Criss [Catman]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]
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Wraparound cover
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Miscellaneous
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Kiss and Tell

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Miscellaneous
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Editorial on the genesis of the Kiss comic includes a photo of the band with Steve Gerber, Stan Lee and Alan Weiss.
A Brief Biography of Dr. Doom

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Kiss

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
celebrity, horror, occult
Kiss [Gene Simmons; Paul Stanley; Peter Criss; Ace Frehley] (origin); Avengers; Defenders; Spider-Man; Fantastic Four; Mephisto (villain); Dr. Doom (villain); Fringe (villain, introduction, death); Big Leo (villain); Dizzy the Hun (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
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Next appearance of Kiss in Howard the Duck (Marvel, 1976 series) #12 (May 1977). Specific art credits per Nick Caputo, June 2020. We formerly credited colors in error to Al Milgrom. Credit corrected by Milgrom via the GCD Error Tracker.
Blood on the Plates

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Let Air Latveria Spirit You Away

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Parody ad.
Where No Band has Tread Before

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Miscellaneous
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History and discography of Kiss.
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Backstage
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A look at how the Kiss comic was produced.

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