Marvel Premiere

Marvel Premiere

Cover for Marvel Premiere #1 (1972) featuring
Adam Warlock. Art by Gil Kane and Dan Adkins.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
Format Anthology
Genre
Publication date April 1972–August 1981
Number of issues 61
Creative team
Writer(s) Steve Englehart, Ed Hannigan, David Anthony Kraft, Stan Lee, David Michelinie, Jim Salicrup, Roger Stern, Roy Thomas
Penciller(s) Jerry Bingham, Frank Brunner, John Byrne, Gil Kane, George Pérez, Barry Windsor-Smith, Tom Sutton
Inker(s) Terry Austin, Gene Day, Frank Giacoia, Al Gordon, Bob Layton, Ricardo Villamonte

Marvel Premiere is an American comic book anthology series published by American company Marvel Comics. It ran for 61 issues from April 1972 to August 1981.[1]

Publication history

The series introduced new characters and reintroduced characters who no longer had their own titles. Writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane revamped Him as the allegorical Messiah Adam Warlock in Marvel Premiere #1 (April 1972).[2] Doctor Strange took over the series with issue #3[3] and writer Steve Englehart and artist Frank Brunner began a run on the character with issue #9.[4] The two killed Dr. Strange's mentor, the Ancient One, and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme. Englehart and Brunner created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-Neg ("Genesis" spelled backward) goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches the beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically, the original creation. Stan Lee, seeing the issue after publication, ordered Englehart and Brunner to print a retraction saying this was not God but "a" god, so as to avoid offending religious readers. The writer and artist concocted a fake letter from a fictitious minister praising the story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter, and dropped the retraction order.[5] In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart and Brunner's run on the "Doctor Strange" feature ninth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".[6]

Iron Fist first appeared in issue #15, written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Gil Kane.[7] Other introductions include the Legion of Monsters, the Liberty Legion,[8] Woodgod, the 3-D Man,[9] and the second Ant-Man (Scott Lang).[10] The series also featured the first comic book appearance of rock musician Alice Cooper.[11] Later in the title's run, Marvel Premiere was used to finish stories of characters who had lost their own series including the Man-Wolf in issues #45–46[12][13] and the Black Panther in issues #51–53.[14][15][16][17]

Issues

Collected editions

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marvel Premiere at the Grand Comics Database
  2. ↑ Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 155. ISBN 978-0756641238. Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane allowed 'Him' to meet another [Stan] Lee-[Jack] Kirby character, the godlike High Evolutionary.
  3. ↑ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 156: "Dr. Strange began a new series of solo adventures. He got off to an impressive start with this story scripted by Stan Lee and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith."
  4. ↑ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 160
  5. ↑ Cronin, Brian (December 22, 2005). "Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #30". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2008. We cooked up this plot-we wrote a letter from a Reverend Billingsley in Texas, a fictional person, saying that one of the children in his parish brought him the comic book, and he was astounded and thrilled by it, and he said, “Wow, this is the best comic book I’ve ever read.” And we signed it “Reverend so-and-so, Austin Texas”-and when Steve was in Texas, he mailed the letter so it had the proper postmark. Then, we got a phone call from Roy, and he said, “Hey, about that retraction, I’m going to send you a letter, and instead of the retraction, I want you to print this letter.” And it was our letter! We printed our letter!
  6. ↑ Sacks, Jason (September 6, 2010). "Top 10 1970s Marvels". Comics Bulletin. Archived from the original on August 3, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  7. ↑ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 165: "Marvel combined the superhero and martial arts genres when writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane created Iron Fist in Marvel Premiere #15."
  8. ↑ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 175: "Invaders writer/editor Roy Thomas decided to create another team of Golden Age superheroes."
  9. ↑ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 179: "In Roy Thomas' story set in the 1950s, test pilot Chuck Chandler...was somehow imprinted on his brother Hal's glasses."
  10. ↑ Michelinie, David (w), Byrne, John (p), Layton, Bob (i). "To Steal An Ant-Man!" Marvel Premiere 47 (April 1979)
  11. ↑ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 191: "Writers Jim Salicrup, Roger Stern, and Ed Hannigan and artists Tom Sutton and Terry Austin collaborated with musician Alice Cooper on Marvel Premiere #50."
  12. ↑ Kraft, David Anthony (w), Pérez, George (p), Giacoia, Frank (i). Marvel Premiere 45 (December 1978)
  13. ↑ Kraft, David Anthony (w), Pérez, George (p), Villamonte, Ricardo (i). "Stargod!" Marvel Premiere 46 (February 1979)
  14. ↑ Hannigan, Ed (w), Bingham, Jerry (p), Day, Gene (i). "The Killing of Windeagle!" Marvel Premiere 51 (December 1979)
  15. ↑ Hannigan, Ed (w), Bingham, Jerry (p), Day, Gene (i). "Journey Through the Past" Marvel Premiere 52 (February 1980)
  16. ↑ Hannigan, Ed (w), Bingham, Jerry (p), Gordon, Al (i). "The Ending, In Anger!" Marvel Premiere 53 (April 1980)
  17. ↑ Brennaman, Chris (April 2014). "Marvel Premiere". Back Issue!. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing (71): 25–32.
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