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Issue: Amazing Adventures #17
Publication Date: March 1973
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Issues: #17 of 39 Issues (75 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.06 GBP
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (6 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Roy Thomas
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Origin of the Beast!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Beast
Character(s): Beast (furry version); Beast (X-Man); El Conquistador
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Birth of the Beast!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Englehart
Penciller(s): Jim Starlin [as Starling]
Inker(s): Mike Esposito
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Denise Vladimer
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Beast
Character(s): Beast (furry version); X-Men [Cyclops; Marvel Girl; Angel; Beast; Iceman]; Magneto
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Single unified story composed out of edited versions of the back-up stories in X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series) #49-53 with a new page at the beginning and end. This sequence is for the new framing pages (p. 1 and p. 20). Last Beast appearance in Amazing Adventures. Beast's next appearance in Incredible Hulk #161. Jim Starlin's name is misspelled as "Starling" in credits.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Arnold Drake
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): John Verpoorten
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Irving Watanabe
Editor(s): Stan Lee (Original Editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!
Character(s): The Beast (origin); Hank McCoy (as baby); Norton McCoy; Edna Andrews McCoy (Beast's parents); Bob (Norton McCoy's uncle)(introduction); Paul Martin (introduction)
First Line: A Beast Is Born
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 12, origin of the Beast part 1, page 1 of the original story is not reprinted.
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This Boy--This Bombshell!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Arnold Drake
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): John Verpoorten
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Herb Cooper
Editor(s): Stan Lee (Original Editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!
Character(s): Hank McCoy [Beast] (as young child, teenager, and adult, origin continued); Edna McCoy; Uncle Bob; El Conquistador (name revealed in next issue) (introduction); Chico (name revealed in next issue, introduction)
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 13, origin of the Beast part 2, page 1 of the original story is not reprinted.
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The Lure of the Beast-Nappers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Arnold Drake
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Herb Cooper
Editor(s): Stan Lee (Original Editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!
Character(s): Beast (origin continued); Hank McCoy (as teenager); Professor X; X-Men [Cyclops; Iceman; Angel]; El Conquistador
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 14, origin of the Beast part 3, pages 1 and 2 of the original story are not reprinted.
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The Crimes of the Conquistador!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Arnold Drake
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): John Verpoorten
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Editor(s): Stan Lee (Original Editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!
Character(s): Beast (origin continued); Hank McCoy (as teenager); Professor X; X-Men [Cyclops; Iceman; Angel]; Norton McCoy; Edna McCoy; El Conquistador
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 15, origin of the Beast part 4, pages 1 and 2 of the original story are not reprinted.
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Welcome to the Club, Beast!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Arnold Drake
Penciller(s): Werner Roth
Inker(s): John Tartaglione
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Jean Izzo
Editor(s): Stan Lee (Original Editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men!
Character(s): Beast (origin conclusion); Hank McCoy (as teenager); Professor X; X-Men [Cyclops; Iceman; Angel]; Norton McCoy; Edna McCoy; El Conquistador; Chico
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: The Origins of the Uncanny X-Men! part 16, origin of the Beast conclusion, page 1 of the original story is not reprinted.
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Four or Five Phenomenal Flashes, Fitfully Fashioned to Fight Lethargy! (Or: Those Wedding Bells Are Waking Up That Old Bullpen Gang of Mine!)

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee; ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items; Marvelous Marvel Mini-Items!; Mighty Marvel Checklist.

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