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Issue Details

Issue #15
Published July 1968
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Medusa, The Most Uncanny Inhuman Of Them All!"

Characters Medusa; Trapster; Sandman
Genre Superhero
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Frank Giacoia?
Reprinted in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #49

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.

25 page Medusa story "Let the Silence Shatter!"

Characters Inhumans [Medusa; Black Bolt]; Frightful Four [Wizard; Trapster; Sandman]
Genre Superhero
Script Archie Goodwin
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Vince Colletta
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Irving Watanabe
Reprinted in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #49; in Marvel Masterworks: The Inhumans (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

1 page Spider-Man promo (ad from the publisher) "The All New Spider-Man Spectacular is Here!"

Genre Superhero
Pencils John Romita (layout); Harry Rosenbaum
Inks Harry Rosenbaum
Notes House ad with a reprint of the cover to Spectacular Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (July 1968). Placed between pages 14 and 15 of the Medusa story.

6 page Black Knight story "The Siege of Camelot!"

Characters Black Knight [Sir Percy]; Modred (Villain); Hawkes (Villain); Morgan Le Fey (Villain); Sir Gillis (Introduction); King Arthur
Genre Superhero; Period
Pencils Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks Joe Maneely (signed)
Colors Stan Goldberg
Reprinted from Black Knight (Marvel, 1955 series) #2 (July 1955) [title from cover of BLACK KNIGHT #2]

3 page Sub-Mariner story "The Dawn of the Sub-Mariner"

Characters Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Princess Fen; Prince Byrrah
Synopsis Sub-Mariner, as a boy, learns that he can live outside of water indefinitely.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Bill Everett
Reprinted from Sub-Mariner Comics (Marvel, 1954 series) #35 (August 1954)

12 page Black Marvel story "The Origin of the Black Marvel"

Characters Black Marvel [Dan Lyons] (Introduction, Origin); Chief Man-To (Introduction, Death); Running Elk; Dan Lyons; Al; Steve; Mickey; Vannie; Jund
Synopsis The Black Marvel stops a group of criminals who have sabotaged the power plant to provide cover to steal weapons to set themselves up as the local criminal power. In the middle of this story, we see the Black Marvel's origin as a white man who successfully completes the physical trials to take over the position of the dying chief of the Blackfeet tribe after all of the tribe's braves had failed.
Genre Superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Al Gabriele
Inks Jack Alderman?
Colors Stan Goldberg
Reprinted from Mystic Comics (Marvel, 1940 series) #5 (March 1941)

7 page Captain America story "Captain America Turns Traitor!"

Characters Captain America; Bucky; Oranoff; Dr. Standish; Sub-Mariner (cameo); Human Torch (cameo); Toro (cameo)
Synopsis A Russian scientist tries to drug Cap into becoming a communist.
Genre Superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils John Romita (signed)
Inks John Romita (signed)
Colors Stan Goldberg
Notes This story is also reprinted in Golden Age of Marvel (Marvel, 1997 series) #[nn].
Reprinted from Young Men (Marvel, 1953 series) #26 (March 1954)

1 page letters page "Marvel Mailbag"

Characters Medusa
Genre superhero
Pencils Gene Colan (letterhead)
Inks Vince Colletta (letterhead)
Letters Typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Bob Schoenfeld, George Parsons Jr., Leonard Lipton and Jeff Pierce.