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Issue Details

Issue #-1
Published July 1997
Cover Price 1.95
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras (editor-in-chief), Tom Brevoort

Cover Details

Characters Baron Helmut Zemo (as Citizen V); vignettes of Baron Heinrich Zemo, Sub-Mariner, HYDRA
Genre superhero
Pencils Steve Epting?
Inks Keith Aiken
Letters Comicraft

23 page Thunderbolts story "Distant Rumblings!"

Characters Baron Heinrich Zemo, Helmut Zemo, Erik Josten, Citizen V (World War II hero; dies in flashback), Dr. Karla Sofen, Dr. Leonard Samson, Melissa Gold, Abner Jenkins, Hallie Takahama, P. Norbert Ebersol (becomes the Fixer), Sub-Mariner, HYDRA, Stan Lee (narra
Synopsis The days before the dawn of the Marvel Age are eventful for the future Thunderbolts: Baron Zemo squashes an uprising of his Indian laborers, as his son Helmut and Erik Josten watch; the Fixer joins HYDRA and helps to subdue the amnesiac Sub-Mariner
Genre superhero
Script Kurt Busiek
Pencils Steve Epting
Inks Bob Wiacek
Colors Tom Smith
Letters Comicraft; Dave Lanphear; Oscar Gongora [as OG]; Siobhan N. Hanna [as SH]

1 page advertisement

Genre superhero
Notes Advertisement for Daring Comics (Daring Mystery Comics #8), featuring Citizen V, Rudy the Robot, the Li'l Prof, the Blue Diamond, the Silver Scorpion, the Fin, Captain Daring, the Thunderer.
Reprinted from Human Torch, The (Marvel, 1940 series) #5[b]