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Issue: Epic Illustrated #27
Publication Date: December 1984
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/25/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 0714860262012
Price: $3.00 CAD
£1.50 GBP
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Archie Goodwin; Jo Duffy; Laurie Sutton; Margaret Clark
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #56, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-10-17.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white and color interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In3
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagTaboo #4 published January 1990 as Morrigan Tales [Story on Interior Page(s)] some elements from "Fire's Kin"
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Clyde Caldwell (signed, painted)
Clyde Caldwell (signed, painted)
Clyde Caldwell (signed, painted)
?
Subject Matter
fantasy
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Contents and indicia information page with 4 small illustrations from story sequences.
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Archie Goodwin
typeset
Subject Matter
Overview
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Notes on stories & contributors to this issue.
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jo Duffy
typeset
Subject Matter
Bookview
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Duet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jan Strnad
Neal McPheeters (signed)
Neal McPheeters
Neal McPheeters
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
9
Castles

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
David Day
Alan Lee
Alan Lee
?
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
Review
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
Illustrated text piece with Alan Lee art for the Bantam Books title "Castles".
Who Is Groo?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mark Evanier
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
typeset
Subject Matter
Preview
Groo the Wanderer
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Illustrated introductory text piece with Sergio Aragones art.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Sergio Aragones (co-plot); Mark Evanier (co-plot & dialogue)
Sergio Aragones (signed)
Sergio Aragones
Tom Luth
Stan Sakai
Subject Matter
humorous, prehistoric
Groo the Wanderer
Groo the Wanderer
The one victorious in battle is the smartest, strongest warrior.
Reprinting
FlagThe Groo Chronicles #2 published January 1989
as untitled [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
Corporate Wars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mike Saenz
Mike Saenz
Mike Saenz
Mike Saenz
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Introduction to Cobalt 60

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mark Bode
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Vaughn Bode
Vaughn Bode (signed)
Vaughn Bode
Vaughn Bode
?
Subject Matter
Cobalt 60
Cobalt 60
Reprinting
from Witzend ?
Miscellaneous
10
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Todd
Mark Bode (signed)
Mark Bode
Mark Bode
Mark Bode
Subject Matter
fantasy
Cobalt-60
Cobalt-60
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
13
Relic

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Archie Goodwin
Al Williamson (signed)
Al Williamson
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
Dedicated to the Memory of Roy G. Krenkel.
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Robert Tebbel; Martha Thomases
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Subject Matter
Futureview
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Fire's Kin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Elaine Lee (signed)
Charles Vess (signed)
Charles Vess
Charles Vess
Charles Vess
Subject Matter
A Morrigan Tale
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
The first page was used for an Epic Illustrated subscription advertisement.
And All the King's Men... Chapter III

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Tim Conrad
Tim Conrad
Tim Conrad
Ken Bruzenak
Subject Matter
Toadswart
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
15
[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Dennis O'Neil
typeset
Subject Matter
Mediaview
Lousy summer for movies.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Shadows in the Stone (Chapter Two)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Byrne
John Byrne
Terry Austin
Glynis Wein
Jim Novak
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
The Last Galactus Story
Reprinting
FlagFantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus #2 [unnamed variant] published December 2013
as The Shadows in the Stone (Chapter Two) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Feedback
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Letters from: Barry Dutter, Matt Lesniak, Gary Kimber and J. Brausch.

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