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Issue: Epic Illustrated #4
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #4 of 34 Issues (36 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: A Marvel Magazine [plain text]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 1980
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860262004
Price: $2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee; Archie Goodwin; Roy Thomas; Maggie Thompson; Don Thompson
Disclose Notes: Letterers: Michael Higgins, Jim Novak, Rick Parker, and Irv Watanabe.
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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:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Mike Kaluta (signed)
Inker(s): Mike Kaluta (signed)
Colorist(s): Mike Kaluta (signed)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Kaluta's title for his cover is 'In the Twinkling of an Eye,' created in 1977.
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Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page with illustrations from stories and indicia information.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Archie Goodwin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Overview
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Textpiece on contributors to Epic Illustrated with Company credits on left third of first page.
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Metamorphosis Odyssey

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jim Starlin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Metamorphosis Odyssey
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory text for the next sequence.
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Delloran Revisited (Metamorphosis Odyssey Chapter VII)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): James P. Starlin
Penciller(s): James P. Starlin (painted)
Inker(s): James P. Starlin (painted)
Colorist(s): James P. Starlin (painted)
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Metamorphosis Odyssey
Character(s): Vanth Dreadstar; Aknaton
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In Content Item: FlagDreadstar #1 published January 2000
as Delloran Revisited (Metamorphosis Odyssey Chapter VII) [Story on Interior Page(s)]with 2 additional pages
In Content Item: FlagDreadstar: The Beginning #[nn] published January 2010
as Chapter VII Delloran Revisited [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit from reprint.
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The Art of Shotaro Ishimori

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gene Pelc; Archie Goodwin
Penciller(s): Shotaro Ishimori
Inker(s): Shotaro Ishimori
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Portfolio
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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A Tale of Elric of Melnibone

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory text for the next sequence.
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The Dreaming City (Part II)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): P. Craig Russell
Inker(s): P. Craig Russell
Colorist(s): P. Craig Russell
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Elric Of Melnibone
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Graphic Novel #2 published January 1982
as The Dreaming City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Michael Moorcock adaptation.
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Stalking the Great Graphic Dream

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Archie Goodwin
Penciller(s): Neal Adams; Michael Golden; Ed Davis
Inker(s): Neal Adams; Michael Golden; Ed Davis
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Textpiece with art by Neal Adams, Michael Golden and Ed Davis.
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Introduction to Almuric

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Introductory text to the next sequence.
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Episode Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Tim Conrad (signed)
Inker(s): Tim Conrad
Colorist(s): Tim Conrad
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Almuric
Character(s): Almuric
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In Content Item: FlagAlmuric #[nn] published January 1991
as Episode Three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: Robert E Howard adaptation.
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Elephant Grass

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Marc Hempel
Penciller(s): Marc Hempel (signed)
Inker(s): Marc Hempel
Colorist(s): Marc Hempel
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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Retrospect

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): B. K. Taylor
Penciller(s): James Fox
Inker(s): James Fox
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Paul Gulacy
Inker(s): Paul Gulacy
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Feedback
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Ed Schultheis, Michael R. Clary, Michael McCarthy, Glenn Dressler and Mark Pennington.
Includes small black and white image of the cover of issue #3.
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Survivors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Kirchner
Penciller(s): Paul Kirchner
Inker(s): Paul Kirchner
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
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Solar Plexus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rick Veitch
Penciller(s): Rick Veitch (signed)
Inker(s): Rick Veitch
Colorist(s): Rick Veitch
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Sleeping Dogs

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harlan Ellison
Penciller(s): Ken Steacy (signed)
Inker(s): Ken Steacy
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Adapted from Harlan Ellison's prose short story of the same name, one of Ellison's "Earth-Kyba War" series of short stories.

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