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Issue: Hero for Hire #4

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Publication Date: December 1972

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Issues: #4 of 16 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/12/1972

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.20 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from Etcetera & The Comic Reader #88 August 1972.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In3

1 Content Item
- The Phantom of 42nd Street! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:

Essential Luke Cage, Power Man #1 published January 2005 as Cry Fear, Cry Phantom [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:

Marvel Masterworks: Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2015

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (4 total)

The Phantom of 42nd Street!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): policeman

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Essential Luke Cage, Power Man #1 published January 2005
as Hero for Hire #4 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Cry Fear...Cry Phantom!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Adrian Loring (introduction, flashback); Jasper Brunt (villain, introduction, death)

First Line: Three a.m.: outside, the seemingly non-stop circus that is...

Synopsis: A decade-long inter-family feud over business erupts, with one of the antagonists posing as a phantom. A participant's suicidal plunge to the death also brings the other to his doom, exacting revenge in a homicidal leap from a high office in a tall building.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 20

Notes: Printed credits give inking credit to Billy Graham. The Shores credit is from the letters page of HERO FOR HIRE #5.

The transformation of the 42nd Street theaters from live playhouses to 2nd-run movie theaters is part of the background of this story, a theme which began when Cage first rented his office above a theater in #2.

Brief one-panel, partial synopsis of Cage's origin.

Dramatic Data, Dynamic Dispatches, and Death-Defying Declarations of Decidedly Dubious Distinction!

In-house Column on Interior Page(s)

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Jeff Young, Mark Kionfas, Phil Trent, Matt Graham.