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Issue Details

Issue #nn [1]
Published 1982
Cover Price 5.95 USD
Pages 68
Editing Al Milgrom
Notes There is no issue number on the comic. There are at least three printing; third pringing dated April 1982.

Cover Details

Characters Captain Marvel; Death; Thor; Thing; Spider-Man; Captain America; Doctor Strange; Iron Man; Hulk; Colossus; Daredevil; Wolverine
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jim Starlin
Inks Jim Starlin
Notes The cover art is an homage to Michelangelo's sculpture "La Pieta".

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "In introduction, little need be said..."

Script Allen Milgrom
Letters Typeset
Notes Dated "2/3/82".

62 page Captain Marvel story "The Death of Captain Marvel"

Characters Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell] (Death); Kree; Una (flashback); Yon-Rogg (flashback); Aakon (flashback); Eon (flashback); Mentor; Eros [Starfox]; Thanos; ISAAC; Nitro (flashback); Supreme Intelligence; Rick Jones; Avengers [Thor; Quicksilver; Vision; Iron Man; Captain America; Goliath; Black Panther; Beast; Yellowjacket; Wonder Man]; Elysius; Annihilus (flashback); Cheetah (flashback); Super-Skrull (flashback); Nimrod (flashback); a Kree Sentinel (flashback); Megaton the Atomic Assassin (flashback); Big Boy (flashback); Stellarax (flashback); Death-Grip (flashback); Zarek (flashback); Mercurio the 4-D Man (flashback); Mandroid (flashback); Man-Slayer (flashback); Number One (flashback); Metazoid (flashback); Stranger (flashback); The Head (flashback); Quasimodo (flashback); Watcher; Scorpio (flashback); Super-Adaptoid (flashback); Sub-Mariner (flashback); Ronan the Accuser (flashback); Supremor (flashback); Controller (flashback); other villains (flashback); Gamora (flashback); Moondragon; Adam Warlock (flashback); Pip (flashback); Drax the Destroyer; Spider-Man; Thing (flashback); Skrulls; Inhumans [Black Bolt; Medusa; Trigon; Karnak; Gorgon]; Defenders [Doctor Strange; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Hulk]; Mister Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Colossus; Nightcrawler; Daredevil; Wolverine; Cyclops; Angel; Nighthawk; Invisible Woman; Clea; Silver Surfer; Ghost Rider; Professor X; Valkyrie; Iron Fist; Power Man; Tigra; Demon Slayer; Franklin Richards; Hercules; Scarlet Witch; Gargoyle; Hellcat; Black Widow; Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]; Kitty Pryde; Storm; General Zedrao; Ant-Man; Death
Synopsis Captain Marvel finds out he is dying of cancer. He looks back upon his life and dies peacefully.
Genre Superhero
Script Jim Starlin
Pencils Jim Starlin
Inks Jim Starlin
Colors Steve Oliff
Letters Jim Novak

1 page Captain Marvel illustration "Back cover"

Characters Black Bolt; Thing; Scarlet Witch; Vision; Thor; Wonder Man; ?; Drax the Destroyer; Beast; ?; Iron Man; Daredevil; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Doctor Strange; Captain America; Hulk; Black Panther; Spider-Man; Rick Jones; ?; Cyclops; Colossus; Mentor; Elysius; Starfox [Eros]; ?; Wolverine; Nightcrawler; ?; Storm; Trigon
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jim Starlin
Inks Jim Starlin
Notes Back cover. The heroes surround Marvel's tomb.