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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published April 1972
Frequency Bi-Monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Maa-Gor the Man-Ape!"

Characters Ka-Zar; Zabu; Maa-Gor
Genre Jungle
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks John Romita
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes Inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (16 January 2005); the original indexer credited Frank Giacoia.

21 page Ka-Zar story "A Day of Tigers!"

Characters Ka-Zar (Origin, told in detail); Zabu (Origin, told in detail); Parnival Plunder (Ka-Zar's brother, Flashback); Lord Plunder (Ka-Zar's father, Death, Flashback); Maa-Gor (Origin, Villain, Flashback); Barbara Morse (full name not revealed until Astonishing Tales #12); Paul Allen (full name not revealed until Astonishing Tales #12); Spassky; Willis; Swamp Men of the Savage Land (Flashback)
Synopsis The origin of Ka-Zar and Zabu, including the tale of Lord Plunder's first visit to the Savage Land.
Genre Jungle
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Frank Giacoia
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Savage Tales Annual (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (Summer 1975) [black and white]

1 page Marvel Bullpen Bulletins; Stan Lee's Soapbox; Mighty Marvel Checklist promo (ad from the publisher) "Marvel Bullpen Bulletins: More Messages, Memos, and Memoranda From Your Mixed-Up Marvel Minions! [April 1972]; Stan Lee's Soapbox; Mighty Marvel Checklist"

Script ?; Stan Lee
Letters Typeset
Notes Items about the new comic Hero For Hire, information about how My Love and Our Love Story is featuring all-new art and stories again, the Officers and Board of Governors of the ACBA (Academy of Comic Book Arts) and how to join, Herb Trimpe has returned from vacationing in Europe where he met a girl who used to be a secretary to the Beatles, Kull the Conqueror is back in Monsters on the Prowl and John Buscema and a partner opened a new steakhouse called the Sunset Inn in Long Island, New York. Stan Lee wrote some thoughts following the Attica State Prison tragedy about how he thinks that right and wrong is subjective. Marvel checklist for comics now on sale! Comics listed with a synopsis are Fantastic Four #121, Spider-Man #107, Thor #198, Avengers #98, Hulk #150, Captain America & The Falcon #148, Daredevil #85, Sub-Mariner #48, Iron Man #46, Astonishing Tales #11, Sgt. Fury #97, Monsters on the Prowl #16 and Marvel Feature #3.

1 page Astonishing Mails letters page "Astonishing Mails"

Letters Typeset
Notes Includes letters from (and answers to) Matthew Graham, Lester G. Boutillier and Anthony Kowalik. Also includes small headshots of Daredevil, Captain America [Steve Rogers], Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff], Spider-Man, Thing, Hulk [Bruce Banner] and Sub-Mariner.