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Issue: Marvel Super-Heroes #17
Publication Date: November 1968
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Issues: #17 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: 08/13/1968
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (4 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Knight [Dane Whitman]
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold. Los Vengadores: ¡Unidos en Combate! #[nn] published March 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page includes images from interior stories. Credits include Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, John Verpoorten and Sharon Kay.
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The Black Knight Reborn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): Dick Ayers ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): Sharon Kay
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Black Knight I [Sir Percy of Scandia] (as a ghost; death in flashback); Merlin (flashback); V: Modred (as ghost and in flashback); Guardian of the Ebony Blade (first appearance; death); Le Sabre [Paul Richarde] (first appearance); the Nether gods (first appearance)
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold. Los Vengadores: ¡Unidos en Combate! #[nn] published March 2012
In Issue: FlagAvengers Epic Collection #4 published January 2015
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Inkers who assisted Adkins likely include Tom Palmer (pages 2-3); Dick Ayers (pages 16, 17, 20) and Paul Reinman (page 22). Alterations by other artists are noticable throughout the book, including Marie Severin, Herb Trimpe and John Romita, who redrew Dane Whitman's face throughout most of the story. Black Knight's appearance takes place in between AVENGERS #55-60.
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Alien Encounter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Sharon Kay
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Original Human Torch
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; George; Pete Force; Ksa
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMen's Adventures #28 published July 1954
was Alien Encounter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: E-238
Disclose Notes: Splash panel drawn by Carl Burgos.
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Wings On His Feet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Sharon Kay
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor] (origin; at age 14; develops ankle wings in this story); Princess Fen
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSub-Mariner #38 published February 1955
was Wings on His Feet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: 637
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Mailbag
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: letters section includes Black Knight image from opening story, promo for the next issue and letters from Bruce Meyer, Shirley Gorman, Thomas Finsterbush, Anthony Albensi Mike McDonnell and Rodney Schroeter.
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Menace from the Future World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): Sharon Kay
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The All-Winners Squad [Captain America (see indexers notes); Bucky (see indexers notes); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro; Miss America [Madeline Joyce]; Whizzer [Robert Frank]; Namor the Sub-Mariner]; Future Man (introduction); Madame Death (introduction); Professor Yalder (scientist, death); the Stiletto Gang (introduction for all)
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From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #21 published January 1946
was Menace from the Future World! [Chapter 1] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #21 published January 1946
was [Menace from the Future World!, Chapter 2] The Green Plague! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAll-Winners Comics #21 published January 1946
was [Menace from the Future World!, Chapter 3] Murder in Slow Motion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]concluded next issue
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Chapters 1-3 of a 7 chapter story which is concluded in Marvel Super-Heroes #18. The next All-Winners Squad story is in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #4, which occurs chronologically before this one and retroactively establishes that the post-war Captain America and Bucky here are Jeff Mace (a.k.a. The Patriot) and Fred Davis.

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