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Marvel Super-Heroes #36 (1973) · The Collector

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Marvel Super-Heroes (1967)
#36

Marvel#36

Marvel Super-Heroes

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Marvel Super-Heroes #36

The Stage Is Set! / When a Monarch Goes Mad!

Publisher: Marvel
Cover date: May 1973
On sale: Feb 6, 1973
Cover price: $0.20
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

1st appearance of Boomerang
1st appearance of Secret Empire

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Printing not stated · $0.20
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Credits

Writer: Stan Lee
Pencillers: Jack Kirby, Bill Everett, Gene Colan
Inkers: Bill Everett, Dick Ayers
Letterer: Sam Rosen

Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 26220

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The Secret Empire hires Boomerang to obtain the plans for the Orion missile and the new bad guy on the block heads for Gamma Base. As Rick, Betty and Glenn are returned to the surface from the underground subterranean kingdom, Boomerang captures Betty to use as a bargaining chip for the missile. Banner frantically makes his way through a pitched battle between the forces of the Mole Man and Tyrannus, trying to find a way to return to the surface and help his friends but it is only when he once again becomes the Hulk that he accidentally stumbles on the right machine that accomplishes the task.

Covers

Jack Kirby, Bill Everett

Editor

Roy Thomas

Cover letters

John Costanza

Other

Irene Vartanoff

Characters

Boomerang· 1st appearance
Secret Empire· 1st appearance
Betty Ross
Hulk
Lady Dorma
Lord Vashti
Major Glenn Talbot
Mole Man
Rick Jones
Sub-Mariner
Tyrannus
Warlord Krang

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