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Issue: Captain Britain Summer Special #1980
Publication Date: January 1980
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Ltd.
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Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.40 GBP
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 12 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: 20.5 cm x 28 cm (8 inches x 11 inches)
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Binding: Softcover
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Captain Britain faces a "panic in Piccadilly!" - on page 4!
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Captain Britain[:] A Marvel Summer Special

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Includes two illustrations from Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #29, page 1, panel 3, and Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1968 series) #178, detail from double page spread on pages 12-13.
Night of the Hawk!

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Mrs. Anderson
Night-time--and a slumbering Brian Braddock dreams peacefully of recent events...
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Lonely Are the Hunted!

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A full moon filtering through the dense beechwood forests of Buckinghamshire...
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Of Legends, Dreams and Otherworld

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The Abduction of King Arthur

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Black Knight [Sir Percy of Scandia]; Modred; Merlin; King Arthur; Guinevere; Gawain
As silently as the breeze which softly played thru the ageless stones...
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Title from cover of BLACK KNIGHT #1.
Of Mortals and Magi

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...With One Beside Him

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Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Tiboro; Ancient One; Asmodeus; Victoria Bentley; Sons of Satannish
Strange enlists Black Knight, to enter realm of Tiboro to free imprisoned Sons of the Satannish, who may know how to reverse Spell of Fire and Ice spoken by Asmodeus.
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Story concludes with a note to readers to write in if they wish to see "The Test of Fire and Ice" as presented in Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #61.
In the Shadow of the Hawk!

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I warned my superiors that superheroes are a menace!
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More fabulous specials from Marvel!
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House ad for The Amazing Spider-Man Summer Special (Marvel UK, 1980 series) 1980 and Doctor Who Summer Special (Marvel UK, 1980 series) 1980, black & white
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On back cover. This originally appeared as a back cover pinup in Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #217. Marvel UK had a competition in previous issues and the prize was an artwork piece drawn by Kirby, which was revealed to be this in issue #217.

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