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Post by earl on Feb 13, 2019 22:15:08 GMT -5
I've been surprised finding out a couple of recent short run Marvel series that I never knew about from the 70s.
First one is the Chris Claremont Death /Kowalski storyline from the former reprint title 'War Is Hell' which was later finished in his run on Man-Thing.
The second run I did not know existed was the solo run of Dr. Druid in the last issues of 'Weird Wonder Tales'.
I know about Morbius in the Adventures to Fear title but what are some of the others out there?
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Post by chaykinstevens on Feb 14, 2019 13:24:51 GMT -5
The Dr Druid run featured edited reprints of Dr Droom stories from Amazing Adventures.
Other short runs include:
Incredible Hulk #1-6
Inhumans in Amazing Adventures #1-10
Doctor Doom in Astonishing Tales #1-8
It the Living Colossus in Astonishing Tales #21-24
Deathlok in Astonishing Tales #25-28, 30-36 & Marvel Spotlight #33
Thongor in Creatures on the Loose #22-29
Man Wolf in Creatures on the Loose #30-37
The Cat #1-4
Combat Kelly #1-9
Doc Savage #1-8
Gunhawks #1-7
Night Nurse #1-4
Red Wolf in Marvel Spotlight #1 & Red Wolf #1=9
Shanna the She-Devil #1-5
The Living Mummy in Supernatural Thrillers #5 & 7-16
Bloodstone in Marvel Presents #1 & 2
Guardians of the Galaxy in Marvel Super-Heroes #18 & Marvel Presents #3-12
Modred the Mystic in Marvel Chillers #1-2
Tigra in Marvel Chillers #3-7
Skull the Slayer #1-6 & Marvel Two-In-One #35-36
Black Goliath #1-5
Omega the Unknown #1-10
Hodiah Twist in Amazing Adventures #32, Vampire Tales #2 & Marvel Preview #16
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 14, 2019 15:11:52 GMT -5
An easy set to complete would be the two Scarecrow stories by Scott Edelman in Dead Of Night #11 and Marvel Spotlight #26.   Marvel Two-In-One #18 would make it a three issue set (don't have that one myself though). |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 14, 2019 15:30:00 GMT -5
A few other series/runs not mentioned above:
Inhumans #1-12
Beast in Amazing Adventures #11-17
Ant Man (Hank Pym) in Marvel Feature #4-10
Living Mummy in Supernatural Thrillers #5-11
Modred the Mystic in Marvel Chillers #1-2
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 14, 2019 15:55:28 GMT -5
How about Brother Voodoo in Strange Tales #169-172, and the Golem in Strange Tales #174, 176, and 177? Brother V went on to a few appearances in Tales of the Zombie, and the Golem had his story wrapped up in (no surprise) Marvel Two-In-One.
Hey, looking it up, it appears that the Golem was the first in the long line of cancelled characters to have their stories wrapped up in MTIO, in issue 11. The series also provided codas for Deathlok, Scarecrow, Skull the Slayer, Modred the Mystic, Living Mummy, Machine Man...
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 14, 2019 16:31:02 GMT -5
Modred also appeared in the Nights of Wundagore story in Avengers #185-187, which didn't end well for him...
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Post by beccabear67 on Feb 14, 2019 16:57:28 GMT -5
Tales Of Asgard ran in the back of Thor and had it's own title for all of one issue, would that also count?
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Post by badwolf on Feb 14, 2019 17:01:24 GMT -5
Modred also appeared in the Nights of Wundagore story in Avengers #185-187, which didn't end well for him... And Marvel Two-In-One #74. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 14, 2019 19:14:35 GMT -5
Marvel Two-In-One #18 would make it a three issue set (don't have that one myself though). I've read that. I thought it was decent, surprisingly. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 15, 2019 2:44:43 GMT -5
An easy set to complete would be the two Scarecrow stories by Scott Edelman in Dead Of Night #11 and Marvel Spotlight #26. Marvel Two-In-One #18 would make it a three issue set (don't have that one myself though). I freakin' love those. Great series! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 8:44:08 GMT -5
Other short runs include: Bloodstone in Marvel Presents #1 & 2 Skull the Slayer #1-6 & Marvel Two-In-One #35-36 Bloodstone continued as a back up in Rampaging Hulk #1-6 and 8. Skull the Slayer ran 8 issues, not 6. -M PS Speaking of Dr. Druid and Bloodstone, one of my favorite short lived Marvel series was the Monster Hunters feature in Marvel Universe 4-7, where they teamed up in a pre-FF#1 story by Roger Stern, but this was not 60's 70s era, it was in the 90s. |
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Post by rberman on Feb 15, 2019 12:41:28 GMT -5
I've been surprised finding out a couple of recent short run Marvel series that I never knew about from the 70s.
First one is the Chris Claremont Death /Kowalski storyline from the former reprint title 'War Is Hell' which was later finished in his run on Man-Thing. This one is collected in the Marvel Universe: Chris Claremont omnibus that also includes his work on Black Goliath, and other short runs. |
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Post by Farrar on Feb 18, 2019 13:26:24 GMT -5
-The Wasp as narrator "The Wasp Tells a Tale" in Tales to Astonish #51-56; solo Wasp adventures in Tales to Astonish #57-58
-The Watcher as narrator in Tales of Suspense #49-58
-The Watcher (again) as narrator in Silver Surfer #1-7. Note, this Watcher-narrated feature recycled stories from Amazing Adult Fantasy, but with new art by Gene Colan, Syd Shores and Howard Purcell. When the SS book decreased its page count, the run's final Watcher installment (with art by Tom Palmer) appeared a few months later in Marvel Super-Heroes #23.
-The Black Widow in Amazing Adventures #1-8
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 18, 2019 13:57:08 GMT -5
You can't get a much shorter run than one issue!
Besides "Black Brother" and "The Femizons" from Savage Tales #1, and "The Brothers Link" in Astonishing Tales #8, and not counting try-out comics like Marvel Premiere, are there any other back-up features at Marvel in the 70's that were clearly intended to be ongoing but which got cut as short as a published run can be cut?
And yeah, the Femizons and the Brothers Link (in the form of villain Gemini) showed up again elsewhere later, but I think Black Brother is possibly the only Marvel character of the era to never make an appearance after his own solo story. Can this be possible? Surely someone sneaked him into a supporting cast or guest appearance, right?
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 18, 2019 20:14:49 GMT -5
You can't get a much shorter run than one issue! Besides "Black Brother" and "The Femizons" from Savage Tales #1, and "The Brothers Link" in Astonishing Tales #8, and not counting try-out comics like Marvel Premiere, are there any other back-up features at Marvel in the 70's that were clearly intended to be ongoing but which got cut as short as a published run can be cut? And yeah, the Femizons and the Brothers Link (in the form of villain Gemini) showed up again elsewhere later, but I think Black Brother is possibly the only Marvel character of the era to never make an appearance after his own solo story. Can this be possible? Surely someone sneaked him into a supporting cast or guest appearance, right? There was a story in the first issue of Marvel's black & white Monsters Unleashed that looked to me like the beginning of a series, but it never appeared again. The story title was "World of Warlocks". In a subsequent issue, an editorial or letters page mentioned that they'd had fans write in to request that it return. |
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