Marvel Presents

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Marvel Presents is a comic book anthology series published by Marvel Comics. Twelve issues were published from October 1975 to August 1977.

The first two issues featured Ulysses Bloodstone. It is most notable for giving the Guardians of the Galaxy their first regular series, from issues #3 to #12, by Steve Gerber, Roger Stern, and Al Milgrom. Issue #7 depicted the first obvious sex act in a Comics Code-approved book, between Vance Astro and Nikki. It presumably made it past the code because Nikki was outside her physical body and Vance was in the mind of the Topographical Man, a humanoid heavenly body.

Issue	Date	Title	Writer	Pencils	Notes
#1	Oct 1975		John Warner	Mike Vosburg, Pat Boyette
#2	Dec 1975		John Warner	Sonny Trinidad
#3	Feb 1976	Just Another Planet Story!	Steve Gerber	Al Milgrom	text piece on the history of Earth-691
#4	Apr 1976	Into the Maw of Madness!	Steve Gerber	Al Milgrom	text piece on the history of Earth-691; first appearance of Nikki
#5	Jun 1976	Planet of the Absurd!	Steve Gerber	Al Milgrom, Howard Chaykin
#6	Aug 1976	The Topographical Man	Steve Gerber	Al Milgrom
#7	Nov 1976	Embrace the Void!	Steve Gerber	Al Milgrom
#8	Dec 1976	Once Upon a Time... the Silver Surfer!	Roger Stern	Al Milgrom	flashback reprinted from Silver Surfer v1 #2
#9	Feb 1977	Breaking Up is Death to Do!	Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes	Al Milgrom
#10	Apr 1977	Death-Bird Rising!	Roger Stern	Al Milgrom
#11	Jun 1977	At War With Arcturus!	Roger Stern	Al Milgrom
#12	Aug 1977	The Shipyard of Deep Space!	Roger Stern	Al Milgrom