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Issue: Hero for Hire #15
Publication Date: November 1973
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Issues: #15 of 16 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 08/14/1973
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #99.
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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:  
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2015
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Inks over pencils. Colors yet to be added.
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Cage Goes Wild!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Luke Cage; Shades; Comanche; Billy Bob Rackham; Claire Temple
First Line: Look out, world--
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Luke Cage, Power Man #1 published January 2005
as Hero for Hire #15 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Retribution: Part II

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Luke Cage; Claire Temple; Flea; Billy Bob Rackham (villain); Shades; Comanche; Mrs. Jenks; Phil Fox
First Line: Rackham, the guard who taught Seagate Prison inmates the...
Synopsis: Claire has been arrested and Cage's old prison comrades Shades and Comanche want to enlist him in their pursuit of Rackham.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGiant-Size Power Man #1 published January 1975
as Retribution: Part II [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Luke Cage, Power Man #1 published January 2005
as Retribution: Part II [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Previous "Hero for Hire" writer Steve Englehart is credited as "Camp Counselor." Tony Isabella blogged on July, 5, 2013:
"'Hero for Hire' #15 was running incredibly late when I was asked to script the issue’s truncated 11-page Luke Cage story. ... Roy Thomas asked me to write Hero for Hire #15 and #16. He knew I was a fan of both Luke Cage and Englehart’s writing and I knew I would have killer deadlines on both issues. When I took the job, I was given the penciled pages for issue #15. I received no plot or script, but I’m pretty sure there were some brief border notes on the pages. I’m also pretty sure I was told Billy plotted this story. I can’t recall why I (or anyone else) credited him as the
co-scripter. He should’ve been credited as plotter or co-plotter. In either case, I received nothing by Englehart before I scripted these pages. I didn’t even talk to him about the story. He might not have even been in New York at the time." http://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2013/07/hero-for-hire-15-16.html
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Invasion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Namor, the Sub-Mariner; Namora; Tha-Korr; Betty Dean; Byrrah (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSub-Mariner #35 published August 1954
was Invasion! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Capricious Commentaries, Carefully Cooked Up to Confuse and Confound You! (Or: Just When You Least Expected It - The Mighty Marvel Checklist's Back in Town!)

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Letters from Marc Winerman and Harvey Kent. Includes an editorial explaining the truncated story and the need for a reprint.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The conqueror is dead! Long live the destroyer!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Promo ad for Kull the Destroyer (Marvel, 1973 series) #11.

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