Marvel Feature Vol 1 8

Marvel Feature Vol 1 #8
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Next Issue	Marvel Feature #9
Art by: Jim Starlin, Mike Esposito and Morrie Kuramoto
Release Date	December 12, 1972
Cover Date	March, 1973
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Roy Thomas

1. "Prelude to Disaster!"
Writer(s)	Mike Friedrich Stan Lee H.E. Huntley
Penciler(s)	P. Craig Russell Jim Starlin Jack Kirby
Inker(s)	Jim Janes Don Heck
Letterer(s)	Annette Kawecki Art Simek
Editor(s)	Roy Thomas

 "Go to the ants thou sluggard!" 

—Maria Pym quoting her father Janos Trovaya

Appearing in "Prelude to Disaster!"

Featured Characters:

• Ant-Man (Hank Pym) (Main story and flashback) (Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket in flashback)
• Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Main story and flashback) (Wasp-Human hybrid in present)

Supporting Characters:

• Ant-Man's Ants (Recap)
• Dr. Vernon van Dyne (Recap) (Death)

Antagonists:

• Kosmosians (Recap)
  • Pilai (Recap)

Other Characters:

• Maria Pym (Recap)
• Maria's Father (Mentioned) (Death) (Recap)
• Soviet Agents (Recap) (Unnamed)
• Police (Mentioned) (Recap)
• Joe (Dock Worker) (Recap)
• United States Army (Recap)
• F.B.I. (Recap)
  • Lee Kearns (Recap) (Voice)
• Para-Man (Recap)
• Egg-Head (Recap)
• Whirlwind (Recap)

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story and recap)
• Dogs (Mentioned) (Recap)
• Ants (Recap)
• Kosmosians (Recap)
• Wolves (Mentioned) (Recap)
• Robots (Recap)

Locations:

• Earthspace (Main story and recap)
  • Milky Way (Main story and recap)
    • Earth (Main story and recap)
      • North America (Main story and recap)
        • United States of America (Main story and recap)
          • New Jersey (Main story and recap)
            • Pym's Laboratory (Recap)
          • New York (Recap)
            • New York City (Recap)
              • Manhattan (Recap)
                • George Washington Bridge (Recap)
                • Financial District (Recap)
                  • Wall Street (Recap)
      • Europe (Recap)
        • Hungary (Recap)
          • American Embassy (Recap)
• Kosmos (Mentioned) (Recap)

Items:

• Wasp's Suit and Bio-Synthetic Wings (Main story and recap)
• Ant-Man's Suit and Helmet (Recap)
• Reducing Gas/Growth Gas (Recap)
• Ant-Man's Catapult (Recap)

Synopsis for "Prelude to Disaster!"

As a maddened, mutated Jan tries to kill her husband, Hank Pym recalls their first meeting long ago...

Solicit Synopsis

The agonizin' Ant-Man fights on!

Notes

• Sequence 1 Prelude to Disaster!
  • This is primarily a flashback consisting of a reprint (pages 3-19) of the Ant-Man story in Tales to Astonish #44.
  • pencils (story pages): Russell pages 1 & 2, Starlin first half of page 3 & 20, Kirby second half of page 3-19.
  • inks (story pages): Janes pages 1-first half of page 3 & 20, Heck second half of page 3-19.
    • Janes is credited as Jimmy Janes.

• This issue features a letters page, Astonishing Ant-Mail. Letters are published from Shirley A. Gorman, Mike Francis, and Cathy Czene.

See Also

• 1 image(s) from Marvel Feature Vol 1 8
• 1 reprint(s) of Marvel Feature Vol 1 8

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