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Issue: Omega the Unknown #1
Publication Date: March 1976
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Issues: #1 of 10 Issues (20 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/16/1976
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the Comic Reader #122.
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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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reprinted 7 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012 as Omega Mail [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]
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A Horde of Steel Assassins!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Omega the Unknown
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGli Eterni #2 published April 1978
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagOmega: The Unknown Classic #[nn] published December 2005
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012
as Omega the Unknown #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from Todd Klein via The Crespi Files posted on Facebook 17 May 2018. Originally letters credit given to Danny Crespi.
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Omega the Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Omega [Model X32] (introduction); James-Michael Starling (introduction, origin revealed in Defenders #77); Ruth Hart; Mr. Starling (introduction, death, robot); Mrs. Starling (introduction, death, robot); Dr. Thomas Barrow (introduction); Amber Grant (introduction); Living Robots (introduction, villains)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGli Eterni #1 published March 1978
as Omega, lo sconosciuto [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 1
In Content Item: FlagGli Eterni #2 published April 1978
as Un colpo dal passato [Story on Interior Page(s)]part 2
In Content Item: FlagOmega: The Unknown Classic #[nn] published December 2005
as Omega the Unknown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #3 published January 2012
as Omega the Unknown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: JV-140
Disclose Notes: Credited as "Conceived and written by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes"
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Gerber recounts the genesis of Omega; includes Marvel Value Stamp Series B #58.
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A Kaleidoscope of Kinetic Kibitzing and Kooky Kommentary Kenned to Kindle Your Karma!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items.
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Spider-Man and the Cupcake Caper

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mary Jane Watson; Man Mountain Marko
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Featured in March 1976 and April 1976 Marvel Comics. Heck and possible Giacoia inks by Nick Caputo, Feb 2011.

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