This reprint series lasted through issue #105 (Jan. Marvel Super-Heroes became an all-reprint magazine beginning with #21 (July 1969) (except for an original 'Tales of the Watcher' story in #23), and a regular-sized comic at the then-standard 20-cent price with #32 (Sept. 'Tales of the Watcher: Melvin and the Martian ' Spider-Man in 'The Reprehensible Riddle of the Sorcerer' Original features Issue (cover date)Ĭaptain Marvel in 'Where Walks the Sentry' 1967) re-introduced the work of the late artist Joe Maneely, a star of 1950s comics who had died in a train accident. 1967) reprinted the entirety of the full-length All-Winners Squad story from the (unhyphenated) All Winners Comics #19 (Fall 1946). Under either name, this series' Golden Age reprints represented the newly emerging comic-book fandom's first exposure to some of the earliest work of such important creators as Jack Kirby, Bill Everett, and Carl Burgos, and to such long-unseen and unfamiliar characters as the Whizzer and the Destroyer. Andru would become the regular artist on The Amazing Spider-Man several years later. recovered more quickly than anticipated from a wrist injury. The Spider-Man story drawn by Ross Andru in issue #14 was originally planned as a fill-in issue of The Amazing Spider-Man but was used here when that title's regular artist John Romita Sr. This encompassed solo stories of such supporting characters as Medusa of the Inhumans, as well as the debuts of Captain Marvel (#12), the Phantom Eagle (#16) and the Guardians of the Galaxy (#18). While continuing with the same mix of reprint material, this first volume of Marvel Super-Heroes also began showcasing a try-out feature as each issue's lead. 1967) before being renamed Marvel Super-Heroes with #12 (Dec. With issue #3 (June 1966), the title was expanded to a 25-cent giant reprinting a mix of those stories and Golden Age superhero stories from Marvel's 1940s iteration as Timely Comics.

The first ongoing series of this name began as Fantasy Masterpieces, initially a standard-sized, 12¢ anthology reprinting ' pre-superhero Marvel' monster and sci-fi/ fantasy stories. 1967), reprinting the cover of the Golden Age series All Winners Comics #19 (Fall 1946)

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