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Issue: Marvel Super-Heroes #20
Publication Date: May 1969
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Issues: #20 of 94 Issues (138 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co.
On Sale Date: 02/11/1969
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1969 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:  
Disclose Reprinted In6
reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagDoctor Doom: The Book of Doom Omnibus #[nn] [unnamed variant] published January 2022
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Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Doom
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Super-Villain Team-Up #1 published November 2004
as Marvel Super-Heroes #20 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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This Man... This Demon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Doom; The Thing; Mr. Fantastic; The Invisible Girl; The Human Torch; Diablo; Valeria; Boris (flashback); Dr. Doom's father (flashback)
First Line: You are witnessing a unique tableau--
Synopsis: Diablo holds Valeria hostage and tries to force Dr. Doom into becoming his partner. Origin of Dr. Doom retold.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Fantastici Quattro #39 published September 1972
as Questo uomo... questo demonio! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up #1 published March 1975
as Part 3: This Man...This Demon! [Encounter at Land's End!] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Double page splash edited out
In Content Item: FlagEssential Super-Villain Team-Up #1 published November 2004
as Part 3: This Man...This Demon! [Encounter at Land's End!] [Story on Interior Page(s)]two page splash edited out of reprint
In Content Item: FlagEssential Super-Villain Team-Up #1 published November 2004
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]2 pages only
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: According to Roy Thomas, Larry Lieber plotted,(likely) dialogued and pencilled approximately the first half of the story when he had to bow out. Roy plotted and wrote the second half, with Frank Giacoia penciling. It appears that Lieber wrote and drew pages 1-11; with Thomas scripting and Giacoia penciling pages 12-24.

Dr. Doom's appearance takes place between STRANGE TALES #167/FANTASTIC FOUR #84. Origin of Dr. Doom retold.
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The Sub-Mariner Meets a New Enemy.... Fire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor] (origin; at age 16); Namora; Byrrah
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSub-Mariner #40 published June 1955
was The Sub-Mariner Meets a New Enemy... Fire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: F-977
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Young Men #24

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Captain America; Bucky
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagYoung Men #24 published December 1953
was The Human Torch Returns [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Return of... the Human Torch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Toro [Thomas Raymond]; Chief Wilson; Professor Phineas Horton (flashback); Adolf Hitler (flashback); Mary Wilson; the Butcher
First Line: The Human Torch... evil's greatest enemy is back!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagYoung Men #24 published December 1953
was The Return of... the Human Torch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The Torch's last appearance was in Marvel Mystery Comics #92 (June 1949).
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Back from the Dead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers] (reintroduction, origin retold); Bucky (reintroduction); Red Skull (reintroduction); Prof. Reinstein
First Line: Gangsters tremble!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagYoung Men #24 published December 1953
was Back from the Dead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: D-337
Disclose Notes: In revisionist history, intro Captain America IV and Bucky III

previous appearance of Captain America was in Captain America's Weird Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #74.
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The Sub-Mariner Returns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Betty Dean; Cathy; Princess Fen (flashback); Admiral Saybrook
First Line: Out of the future, out of the fourth dimension where time and space are one, come strange and frightening phenomena!!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagYoung Men #24 published December 1953
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: D-343
Disclose Notes: last Sub-Mariner appearance was in Marvel Mystery Comics #92 (June 1949)
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Who Is... Starhawk?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Marvel Super-Heroes
Character(s): Starhawk (Mark Wilde)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for next issue showcases the first and only appearance of this iteration (Mark Wilde) of Starhawk since, beginning with #21, Marvel Super-Heroes reverts back to an all-reprint format.

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