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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published December 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Roy Thomas
Notes Art credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (13 January 2005). Original indexer credited the pencils to Gil Kane and the inks to John Romita.

Cover Details

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell; Rick Jones]; Basilisk [Basil Elks]
Genre Superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks Frank Giacoia
Notes Art credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (13 January 2005). Original indexer credited the pencils to Gil Kane and the inks to John Romita.
Reprinted In Essential Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 2002 series) #1

19 page Spider-Man and Captain Marvel story "Beware the Basilisk My Son!"

Characters Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell; Rick Jones]; Basilisk [Basil Elks] (first appearance; origin; villain)
Synopsis Basil Elks accidently finds the Kree alpha stone. When a night watchmen shoots the stone, Basil is bathed in it's energies and becomes the Basilisk. Captain Marvel and Spider-Man race Basilisk to the omega stone. Captain Marvel gets trapped within the stone and disappears.
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Jim Mooney; David Hunt (uncredited)
Colors Glynis Wein
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Continued next issue.
Reprinted In Essential Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 2002 series) #1

Half page Mail it to Team-Up letters page "Mail it to Team-Up"

Letters typeset
Notes Letters from readers - David Lofvers, Corby Keep, Jerry Eisen and Mark Schlanger.

1 page Marvel Bullpen Bulletins promo (ad from the publisher) "Marvel Bullpen Bulletins [December 1973]"

Letters typeset
Notes Marvel Comics checklist for comics dated December 1973. Obituary for Syd Shores, who passed away on June 3, 1973. There is no Stan Lee's Soapbox column this month.