Comic Book: Marvel Feature
What This Book is About:
Another try-out book, notable for the first appearance of the Defenders in issues #1-3. Issues #4-10 marked Ant-Man's (Hank Pym) second solo series. The final two issues, #11-12, were team-ups featuring the Thing (Ben Grimm). MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, an ongoing Thing team-up series, followed this title's cancellation, starting over at issue #1.
Data Sheet:
Dec 1971 to Jun 1972
N/A
1
Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.
Plus: Doctor Nemesis (
Michael Stockton), Whirlwind (
David Cannon).
Comics Index
Total Indexed Comics:
12
Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.
December 1971"The Day Of The Defenders / The Return"
Script: Roy ThomasAfter receiving a psychic call from Yandroth the supreme scientist, Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme), visits the caller at his hospital bed. [...]
March 1972"Nightmare On Bald Mountain"
Script: Roy ThomasDormammu needs the body of Doctor Strange to enter the Earth's dimension. So he instructs his cultists for tricking the sorcerer into assuming his astral form. The evil followers succeed and steal Doctor Strange's body. [...]
June 1972"A Titan Walks Among Us!"
Script: Roy ThomasA space capsule occupied by astronauts Beame and Wagner is surrounded by a rare white vapor before it clashes to the sea. Namor, who was in the area, saves them from being swallowed by a giant squid. The two pilots decide to change the space program for a quieter job. [...]
July 1972"?The Incredible Shrinking Doom!"
Script: Mike FriedrichDr. Henry
Pym is working for Dr. Curt Connors, analyzing American Indian drugs for the US
government. He is assisted by college student Peter Parker the day the
Southampton lab explodes. [...]
September 1972"Fear’s the Way He Dies!"
Script: Mike FriedrichAnt-Man,
stuck in his miniature form, is trying to return home when he is attacked by a
goshawk in search of prey. He climbs inside a filthy soda can but the bird
tries to pry him out; Hank removes his shirt and ties it around the bird’s beak
and escapes while the goshawk struggles with it. [...]
November 1972"HellStorm!"
Script: Mike FriedrichAnt-Man,
trapped in his smallest size, returns home to find his lab wrecked and his wife
Jan—the Wasp—unconscious on the floor. The skylight above them begins to
shatter so Hank speedily opens an umbrella over Jan and jumps into a floor
vent. [...]
January 1973"Paranoia is the Para-Man!"
Script: Mike FriedrichAnt-Man and
Wasp, trapped in their smallest sizes are trying to escape a man chasing them
with a butterfly net. [...]
March 1973"Prelude to Disaster!"
Script: Mike FriedrichA chemical
reaction within her causes Wasp to mutate into a human-wasp hybrid intent on
killing Ant-Man. [...]
May 1973"“…the Killer is My Wife!"
Script: Mike FriedrichAnt-Man
(Hank Pym) is pursued through a garden by his wife the Wasp, mutated into a
killer wasp creature. Suddenly she convulses and he seizes the opportunity to
use a popsicle stick as a springboard, leaping into a tree…
…where he
finds himself face-to-face with a vicious rat. [...]
July 1973"Ant-Man No More!"
Script: Mike FriedrichAnt-Man and
Wasp have been captured by mad scientist Doctor Nemesis who spends an entire
day subjecting them to sinister lab tests. At the end, Ant-Man demands to know
what Nemesis is doing and the answer is simple: he has cured Hank of being
stuck at his tiny size. [...]
September 1973"Cry, Monster"
Script: Len WeinFrustrated by the prospect of another scheme by Mr. Fantastic to cure him, the Thing is unaware that he is being watched by an old nemesis, Kurrgo, Master of Planet X. [...]
November 1973"The Bite of the Blood Brothers!"
Script: Mike FriedrichBen Grimm, the Thing, stranded in the Southwestern desert at the end of last issue, is walking back to civilization when Iron Man flies overhead. [...]