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Issue: Marvel Super-Heroes #15
Publication Date: July 1968
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Issues: #15 of 94 Issues (134 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/09/1968
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Roy Thomas (associate editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound (#12-31); saddle-stitched (#32-105)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Medusa; Trapster; Sandman
First Line: Medusa, the most uncanny Inhuman of them all!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIl Mitico Thor #49 published February 1973
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover, issue credits, listing of stories with one panel reprinted from each story. Credits include Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, John Verpoorten, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and Flo Steinberg.
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Let the Silence Shatter!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Inhumans [Medusa; Black Bolt]; Frightful Four [Wizard; Trapster; Sandman]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Inhumans #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
In Content Item: FlagIl Mitico Thor #49 published February 1973
as Si spezzi il silenzio! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 25
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The Greatest Event in the History of Comic Magazines!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad featuring a Romita drawn image of the cover to Spectacular Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (July 1968). Placed between pages 14 and 15 of the Medusa story.
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The Siege of Camelot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, superhero
Character(s): Black Knight [Sir Percy]; Modred; Hawkes; Morgan Le Fey; Sir Gillis (introduction); King Arthur
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBlack Knight #2 published July 1955
was The Siege of Camelot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: G-64
Disclose Notes: Title from cover.
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The Dawn of the Sub-Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor] (origin details; story takes place in Namor's boyhood); Princess Fen; Prince Byrrah
Synopsis: Sub-Mariner, as a boy, learns that he can live outside of water indefinitely.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSub-Mariner #35 published August 1954
was The Dawn of the Sub-Mariner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: E-805
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The Origin of the Black Marvel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Black Marvel
Character(s): Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (introduction; origin); Chief Man-To (introduction; death); Running Elk; Dan Lyons; Al; Steve; Mickey; Vannie; Jund
Synopsis: The Black Marvel stops a group of criminals who have sabotaged the power plant to provide cover to steal weapons to set themselves up as the local criminal power. In the middle of this story, we see the Black Marvel's origin as a white man who successfully completes the physical trials to take over the position of the dying chief of the Blackfeet tribe after all of the tribe's braves had failed.
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From Content Item: FlagMystic Comics #5 published March 1941
was The Origin of the Black Marvel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Note that some sources claim that Stan Lee co-created the Black Marvel, but Lee's first writing credit for a text filler, has been established as being in Captain America Comics #3, with his first comic scripting credit a few issues after that.
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Captain America Turns Traitor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America; Bucky; Oranoff; Dr. Standish; Sub-Mariner [Namor] (cameo); Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (cameo); Toro [Thomas Raymond] (cameo)
Synopsis: A Russian scientist tries to drug Cap into becoming a communist.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagYoung Men #26 published March 1954
was Captain America Turns Traitor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: D 740
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Mailbag
Character(s): Medusa
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from readers Bob Schoenfeld, George Parsons Jr., Leonard Lipton and Jeff Pierce. Includes promo for the next issue.

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