A "Best of" collection of stories from previously-published issues.
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MONSTERS UNLEASHED!
Vol. 1 No. 5
Summer 1974
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Editor: Archie Goodwin
Cover: Ken Bald
Pages: 92
Cover price: $1.25
"Summer Annual" or "Super"? Both, I guess, since it came out in June 1975.
ReplyDeleteThe Marvel Database website indicates most of these stories were reprints from earlier issues, but jumbles up the references somewhat. 'World of Warlocks', for instance, is listed as originally having been called 'The Boy Who Cried Werewolf' in MU#1, but there are no lycanthropes in this tale and that earlier story is in fact an adaptation of a Robert Bloch short story.
These 'specials' weren't always reprints, I'm happy to say. The 'giant-size' conclusion to Marvel's Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction which appeared in November 1976 appears to have been constructed from inventory stories left over when the original series was cancelled.
DeleteThere's a letter here from Ralph Macchio, who met Marvel writer Don McGregor at a New York comics convention in 1976 and was invited to visit the offices, where Chris Claremont suggested he interview Roy Thomas for the company fanzine Foom, Shortly afterwards, he got an editorial job on the b&w magazines, moved into writing comics and eventually became executive editor.
ReplyDeleteAll interesting background info, Steve. Thanks for sussing it out.
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