Comic Book: Marvel Feature (1971 series)

Description:
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

1971

N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Ant-Man
(Hank Pym)

Wasp
(Janet Van Dyne)

Hulk
(Bruce Banner)

Doctor Strange
(Dr Strange)

Marvel Feature #1
(Dec 1971)

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Indexed Comics: 12

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Marvel Feature #1

December 1971
"The Day Of The Defenders / The Return"
Script: Roy Thomas
After receiving a psychic call from Yandroth the supreme scientist, Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme), visits the caller at his hospital bed. [...]

Marvel Feature #2

March 1972
"Nightmare On Bald Mountain"
Script: Roy Thomas
Dormammu 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. [...]

Marvel Feature #3

June 1972
"A Titan Walks Among Us!"
Script: Roy Thomas
A 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. [...]

Marvel Feature #4

July 1972
"?The Incredible Shrinking Doom!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Dr. 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. [...]

Marvel Feature #5

September 1972
"Fear’s the Way He Dies!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Ant-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. [...]

Marvel Feature #6

November 1972
"HellStorm!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Ant-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. [...]

Marvel Feature #7

January 1973
"Paranoia is the Para-Man!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Ant-Man and Wasp, trapped in their smallest sizes are trying to escape a man chasing them with a butterfly net. [...]

Marvel Feature #8

March 1973
"Prelude to Disaster!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
A chemical reaction within her causes Wasp to mutate into a human-wasp hybrid intent on killing Ant-Man. [...]

Marvel Feature #9

May 1973
"“…the Killer is My Wife!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Ant-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. [...]

Marvel Feature #10

July 1973
"Ant-Man No More!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Ant-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. [...]

Marvel Feature #11

September 1973
"Cry, Monster"
Script: Len Wein
Frustrated 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. [...]

Marvel Feature #12

November 1973
"The Bite of the Blood Brothers!"
Script: Mike Friedrich
Ben Grimm, the Thing, stranded in the Southwestern desert at the end of last issue, is walking back to civilization when Iron Man flies overhead. [...]

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