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Issue Details

Issue	#18
Published	January 1969
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Origin of the Guardians of the Galaxy"

Genre	Science Fiction; Superhero
Script	Arnold Drake
Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Mike Esposito?
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Letters	Herb Cooper
Reprinted	in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (April 1975)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents Page"

Pencils	Various
Inks	Various
Notes	Inside front cover, issue credits, listing of stories with one panel reprinted from each story.

22 page Guardians of the Galaxy story "Guardians of the Galaxy!"

Genre	Science Fiction; Superhero
Script	Arnold Drake
Pencils	Gene Colan
Inks	Mike Esposito [as Mickey Demeo]
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Letters	Herb Cooper
Notes	I & O: Guardians of the Galaxy (Charlie-27, Yondu, Maj. Vance Astro, Martinex); V: Badoon Brotherhood; next app. in MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #4
Reprinted	in Astonishing Tales (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (April 1975) [reprint title: Earth Shall Overcome, minus 4 pages]

1 page letters page "Marvel Mailbag"

Pencils	Herb Trimpe
Inks	Herb Trimpe
Notes	Letters from Steven Grant, Jim Meschwitz, Jimmy Golden and Gary Dahlberg are printed, along with an illustration from Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #16.

3 page Sub-Mariner story "Courage!"

Genre	Superhero
Script	Bill Everett
Pencils	Bill Everett
Inks	Bill Everett
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Letters	Bill Everett
Reprinted	from Sub-Mariner Comics (Marvel, 1954 series) #36 (September 1954)

1 page All-Winners Squad cover reprint (on interior page) "All-Winners Comics #21"

Genre	Superhero
Pencils	Al Avison
Inks	Charles Nicholas
Reprinted	from All-Winners Squad (Marvel, 1941 series) #21 (Winter 1946-47)

8 page Sub-Mariner story "Wave of Destruction!" (Ch. 4)

Genre	Superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Al Avison
Inks	Vince Alascia
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Reprinted	from All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #21 (Winter 1946-47)

5 page Miss America story "The Living Dead!" (Ch. 5)

Genre	Superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Charles Nicholas
Inks	Syd Shores
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Reprinted	from All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #21 (Winter 1946-47)

8 page Human Torch [golden age] story "Flames of Fury!" (Ch. 6)

Genre	Superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Syd Shores
Inks	Al Gabriele
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Reprinted	from All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #21 (Winter 1946-47)

4 page All-Winners Squad story "War Between the Worlds!" (Ch. 7)

Genre	Superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Vince Alascia
Inks	Al Avison
Colors	Stan Goldberg
Notes	next All-Winners Squad story in SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK #22; next app. of Whizzer and Miss America in GIANT-SIZE AVENGERS #1
Reprinted	from All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #21 (Winter 1946-47)