Marvel Preview

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Marvel Preview

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Publisher Marvel Comics
Schedule Quarterly
Format Magazine
Publication date Spring 1975 - Winter 1980
Number of issues 24 (Changed name to Bizarre Adventures starting with #25)
Creative team
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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  1. features The Man-Gods From Beyond the Stars (1975)
  2. features The Punisher (1st solo story); back-up: Dominic Fortune (1st appearance) (1975)
  3. features Blade the Vampire-Slayer (1975)
  4. features Star-Lord (1st appearance); back-up: The Sword in the Star with Prince Wayfinder (1976)
  5. features Sherlock Holmes (adaptation of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles part 1) (1976)
  6. features Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles part 2 (1976)
  7. 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)
  8. features The Legion of Monsters (Morbius, the Living Vampire, Blade, Anubis) (1976)
  9. features Man-God (Hugo Danner [1st part of never-completed adaptation of the novel Gladiator by Philip Wylie]) (1976)
  10. features Thor; back-up: Hercules (1977)
  11. features Star-Lord (1977)
  12. features The Haunt of Horror (including Lilith and Dracula) (1978)
  13. features The UFO Connection (1978)
  14. features Star-Lord (1978)
  15. features Star-Lord (1978)
  16. features Masters of Terror (1978)
  17. features Blackmark (1979)
  18. features Star-Lord (1979)
  19. features Kull the Destroyer; back-up: Solomon Kane (1979)
  20. features Bizarre Adventures (reprints, including Dominic Fortune) (1980)
  21. features Moon Knight; back-up: The Shroud (1980)
  22. features Merlin
  23. features Bizarre Adventures 2
  24. features Paradox

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