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Issue: Strange Tales #179
Publication Date: April 1975
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Issues: #179 of 20 Issues (33 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Cosmic Code Authority [Approved by the Comics Code Authority]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 01/28/1975
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Cosmic Code Authority [Approved by the Comics Code Authority]
Content Items: 2 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Indicia reads STRANGES TALES featuring WARLOCK.

This cover shows approval of the "Cosmic" Code Authority instead of the usual "Comics" Code Authority. Jim Shooter (on his blog) believed it to have been the work of Jim Starlin. Shooter believed Starlin got the cover stat just before shipping to the printer and changed the Comics Code Authority seal so it read "Cosmic" Code Authority.
Per Tom Orzechowski, the change in the Code name was his idea and that he, as the letterer of the cover, did the revision (per notedated 18 December 2017).
No one at Marvel or the Comics Code noticed the change.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Interior Page
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Inks over pencils; colors yet to be added.
 
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Death Ship!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction; fantasy
Character(s): Adam Warlock
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold. Warlock: La amenaza de Thanos #[nn] published September 2012
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Warlock #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2009
as Death Ship! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Death Ship!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction; fantasy
Character(s): Adam Warlock (also in flashback); Pip the Troll (introduction); Captain Autolycus (introduction, death); Matriarch; Magus (also in flashback); Grak (introduction, death); Bak (introduction); Borgia (flashback); Sliggs
First Line: It hurtled through the dark void like a gigantic predatory bird...
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold. Warlock: La amenaza de Thanos #[nn] published September 2012
In Issue: FlagWarlock by Jim Starlin: The Complete Collection #[nn] published January 2014
In Content Item: FlagFantasy Masterpieces #9 [Direct] published August 1980
as Death Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 12 edited
In Content Item: FlagWarlock #1 published December 1982
as Death Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWarlock #1 published May 1992
as Death Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: Warlock #2 [Regular Edition] published June 2009
as Death Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Warlock #1 published January 2012
as Death Ship! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 19

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