Marvel Preview
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Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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Schedule | Quarterly |
Format | Magazine |
Publication date | Spring 1975 - Winter 1980 |
Number of issues | 24 (Changed name to Bizarre Adventures starting with #25) |
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Writer(s) | Bill Mantlo, Gil Kane, Steve Englehart, Doug Moench, Christopher Claremont, Roger Stern, others |
Artist(s) | Keith Giffen, Michael Nasser, others |
Marvel Preview was a magazine sized black-and-white showcase comic book produced by Marvel. It is notable for containing the first and early appearances of many Marvel characters like Blade (issue #3), Star-Lord (#4), Dominic Fortune (#2), Satana (#7), and many more. It also contained premiere artwork by Keith Giffen (in the back up story of issue #4 and #7, "The Sword in the Star"). Despite a quarterly frequency, the magazine had a history of scheduling problems, with one "Next Issue" ad after another proving inaccurate. For example, #2 promised Thor the Mighty for #3, but a Blade story originally promoted as a serial for the recently cancelled Vampire Tales appeared, while the Thor material was not seen until #10. As of #25, the title was changed to Bizarre Adventures.
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- features The Man-Gods From Beyond the Stars (1975)
- features The Punisher (1st solo story); back-up: Dominic Fortune (1st appearance) (1975)
- features Blade the Vampire-Slayer (1975)
- features Star-Lord (1st appearance); back-up: The Sword in the Star with Prince Wayfinder (1976)
- features Sherlock Holmes (adaptation of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles part 1) (1976)
- features Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles part 2 (1976)
- features Satana; back-up: The Sword in the Star with Prince Wayfinder (also features a character that could be Rocket Raccoon or a look-alike) (1976)
- features The Legion of Monsters (Morbius, the Living Vampire, Blade, Anubis) (1976)
- features Man-God (Hugo Danner [1st part of never-completed adaptation of the novel Gladiator by Philip Wylie]) (1976)
- features Thor; back-up: Hercules (1977)
- features Star-Lord (1977)
- features The Haunt of Horror (including Lilith and Dracula) (1978)
- features The UFO Connection (1978)
- features Star-Lord (1978)
- features Star-Lord (1978)
- features Masters of Terror (1978)
- features Blackmark (1979)
- features Star-Lord (1979)
- features Kull the Destroyer; back-up: Solomon Kane (1979)
- features Bizarre Adventures (reprints, including Dominic Fortune) (1980)
- features Moon Knight; back-up: The Shroud (1980)
- features Merlin
- features Bizarre Adventures 2
- features Paradox