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Issue: The Mighty World of Marvel #3
Publication Date: October 1972
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel UK
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Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management London Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 40
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.05 GBP
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour front and back covers; black and White with some colour interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Spider-Man; The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk
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The Terror of the Toad Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
The Hulk [Bruce Banner](origin recap); General Thunderbolt Ross; Betty Ross; Rick Jones; the Toad Men (introduction)
The Toad Men are above Earth, in search of its brightest scientist. Meanwhile, Rick and Bruce explore an underground cave where they hope to imprison Hulk each night.
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Miscellaneous
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Peter Parker's House

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Spider-Man; Aunt May Parker
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Miscellaneous
1
After page 7 of previous story sequence.
Inside the Baxter Bldg. [sic]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
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Between pages 7 & 8 of previous story sequence.
The Mighty World of Marvel Pin-Up Page!

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]]
The Fantastic Four think I'm trapped!
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Logo design credits from Todd Klein.
Located before page 8 ot previous story sequence.
The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Skrulls (introduction)
Four shape-changing Skrulls pose as the Fantastic Four and act as criminals while the true ones are in the country and recall their origin.
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The World's Greatest Free Gift Offer!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
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Subject Matter
The Hulk; The Human Torch
Details of "The world's greatest free gift offer!": for eight more weeks, each issue will bear a numbered coupon - collect eight and mail them in for the gift; along with a coupon, each issue will also carry a clue to the mystery gift. This issue, coupon no. 3 shows The Human Torch's face, and the clue is: "You can fold it, roll it, or hide behind it!"
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This centerspread is located between pages 4 & 5 of the Fantastic Four story.
Football Shirts

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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? (photograph)
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typeset
Subject Matter
sports
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Miscellaneous
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Three-quarters of page 25 of the comic (between pages 7 & 8 of the Fantastic Four story) is taken up with this ad for football (i.e. soccer) (T-)shirts, an "amazing offer" from Inside Football and Striker, "Britain's great soccer newspaper": for 95p, the reader can acquire a T-shirt with the face and signature of one of 20 players (such as Kevin Keegan). The ad contains a photo of one of the shirts.
The final quarter of the page, bottom left, contains advertisements for collectible postage stamps.
The Mole Man

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Mighty World of Marvel Pin-Up Page
Mole Man [Harvey Elder]
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Miscellaneous
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Between pages 11 & 12 of Fantastic Four story.
Spider-Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; J. Jonah Jameson; May Parker; Flash Thompson; Liz Allen; John Jameson
Spider-Man rescues John Jameson, J. Jonah Jameson's son, from his malfunctioning space capsule.
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