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Issue: Marvel Comics #1: 70th Anniversary Edition #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/12/2009
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 75960606672800111
Price: $4.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Publishing Format: one-shot
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
superhero
Human Torch
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Based on the cover to Marvel Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #1.
Now I'll Tell One!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
humorous
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Inside front cover.
Origin of the Human Torch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
The Human Torch (Introduction and Origin; an android); Professor Phineas T. Horton (Introduction); Tony Sardo (Introduction, Death); Red (Introduction, Death)
Gentlemen of the press - I called your to laboratory because, I, Professor Horton, have a difficult problem in my latest discovery..
After the Scientist's Guild convinces inventor Horton to dispose of his new creation, a "human torch", a clever criminal figures out a way to use this creation for his own evil purposes.
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The Six Big Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
The Angel [Tom Hallaway] (introduction); Lil (introduction); The Six Big Men [Gus Ronson; Mike Malone; John Dillon; Trigger Bolo; Steve Enkel; Dutch Hanson] (villains, introduction for all, all die); the Big Boss [Dr. Lang] (villain, introduction)
The Angel is called in to handle a group known as the "Six Big Men" and their mysterious leader who have taken over an entire city.
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Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
Origin of the Sub-Mariner

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
The Sub-Mariner [Prince Namor] (Introduction; Origin); Anderson; Nelson (Death); Carley [Death]; Princess Fen (Introduction); Emperor Tha-Korr (unnamed; Introduction); Dorma (Introduction)
Prince Namor, having learned of what the race of white men once did to his undersea kingdom, vows, and is encouraged, to make war on the surface dwellers.
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Origin of the Masked Raider

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
western
The Masked Raider [Jim Gardley] (Introduction; Origin); Cal Brunder (Introduction)
When Cal Brunder, who has been forcing small ranchers in Cactusville to sell out to him at his own price, sends his men to the ranch of Jim Gardley, and he won't sell, he has a phony charge of rustling leveled against him.
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Jungle Terror: A Complete Adventure Story

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Subject Matter
jungle
Ken Masters; Professor John Roberts; Tim Roberts; Crafton (Death); Mike (Death); Slug (Death)
I tell you, Tim - we shouldn't have let the professor go into that jungle!
Ken and Tim are worried about Professor Roberts, who went into the Amazon jungle three months earlier, trying to locate a certain Indian tribe that had in its possession a diamond with hypnotic powers.
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Burning Rubber

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
science and technology
Bill Williams; Fred Turner; C. G. Clark; Ruth Clerk; Ann
Bill has invented a new gas feeder for his race car and is testing it out....at the risk of his own life!
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Origin of Ka-Zar

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
jungle
Ka-Zar [David Rand] (Introduction, Origin); John and Constance Rand (Introduction, both Death; Ka-Zar's parents); Zar (a lion, Introduction); Chaka (a gorilla, Introduction); Trajah (an elephant, Introduction); N'Jaga (a leopard, Introduction); Paul De Kraft (Introduction)
Constance!!
A plane crashes in the jungle of the Belgian Congo, and a young boy named David watches his mother die, and later his father at the hands of Paul De Kraft. The youngster is trained in survival tactics by his father, is later re-named Ka-Zar, brother of the mighty Zar, a lion whose life he once saved.
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