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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published July 1976
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 36
Editing Marv Wolfman
Notes Letters page letter from Kim Thompson. Contents of this issue switched with the contents of Marvel Team-Up #47.

Cover Details - "The Basilisk!"

Characters The Thing; Spider-Man; Basilisk
Genre superhero
Pencils Ron Wilson (signed)
Inks Joe Sinnott (signed)
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted in Uomo Ragno, L' [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #202; in Essential Marvel Two-In-One (Marvel, 2005 series) #1

17 page The Thing; Spider-Man story "This City-- Afire!"

Characters The Thing; Spider-Man; GUEST: Mary Jane Watson; VILLAIN: Basilisk; CAMEO FLASHBACK: Ka-Zar; Zabu
Synopsis The Thing battles Basilisk in the Savage Land and the villain teleports the both of them into the heart of New York City; Spidey returns from his time jaunt to discover an active volcano spitting lava into the Hudson River; He investigates and discovers that the Basilisk has felled the Thing and is preparing to destroy the city.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Mantlo
Pencils Sal Buscema (layouts); Mike Esposito (finished art); Dave Hunt (finished art)
Inks Mike Esposito; Dave Hunt (backgrounds)
Colors Don Warfield
Letters Gaspar Saladino (page one); Jean Hipp
Notes Continued in Marvel Team-Up (Marvel, 1972 series) #47
Reprinted in Uomo Ragno, L' [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #202; in Essential Marvel Two-In-One (Marvel, 2005 series) #1