‘ct |MARVEE COMICS GROUP = ET es ale) | ee f: Roa ORFLAM IF me AL Bt P= LS &Cc K JONES : MERE MOMENTS AGO, THEIR ATANG WERE ONE NOW, THE UNIQUE BOND BETWEEN THEM WHICH HAG KEPT BACH SLAVE TO THE OTHER'S WHIM OF FREI WAS BEEN SHATTERED CONGRATIAATIONS, MARVELL} I’M AFRAID I MISSED THE ACTION, FELLA--! NOT ONLY DID. you DEFeaT | {IF HE WAS ABLE TO FIGHT ALL THE AVEW- THE SUPER-ADAPTOD...BUT | § \ GERS TO A STANDSTILL, HOW'D YOu BEAT YOU'VE FREED YOURSELF z HIM eS ANP THE YOUTH AS WELL! 2 MIMICKED. WY NEGA --TO TRANSFER HIM TO THE NEGATIVE ZONE, TO WHICH. Z \, THEREBY FREEING CAN ONLY ADB: SCOTT EDELMAN | AL MILGROM | TERRY AUSTIN | JOE ROSEN | Z- Var TANOPE) ARCHIE GOODWIN WRITER / sehr uf INKER. i eee CaAORIST BAIT OR. CAPTAIN MARVEL™ is published by MARVEL COMICS GROUP. OFFICE OF PUI AVENUE, NEW YOR Published bi-monthly. ‘Copyright ©1977 by Marvel Comics Grgup: A Division of Cadenod Industries Corporation. All rigirts reserved 575 , New York, N.Y, 10022. Vol. 1, No. 51, July, 1977 issue. Price 30¢ per copy in the U.S. and Canada. Subscription rats $4.00 for 12 imuet. Canada, $8.00. Foreign, $6.00. No similarity between any of the namies, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or deed person Or institution i intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A. CAPTAIN MARVEL (inctuding ait prominent characters featured in the issue), and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks of the MARVEL COMICS GROUP.MY EMOTIONS FEA/O YOUR QuT- BURST, RICK, FOR THOUGH OUR MUTUAL EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN A FRE/TFUZL ONE.. LAM NOT SORRY THAT (T HAS PASSED. AFTER HAVING OUR BRAINS IERGEP TOG: TOGETHER ALL THESE YEARS, [0 SETTERS BUT 1 ALSO KNOW THAT HAVE BEEN £4VAED FOR SO LONG, THEY CAN'T HEP BUT BE ANYTHING BUT ARYENWDS: AFTER ITS ALL OVER’ NEVER DOUBT THAT, THE MEART OF CA a oa MAR-VELL BEATS ae WELL, Rick, WHAT HAPPENS MOW? MESS KOM Rick JONES (3 NOT THE ey THOSE DAYS ONE WHO MUST SEARCH SOUL TO AUGUR THE FUTURES GIVEN A SWAKE- &P, AND BEFOREAT £AST-- THE YEARS OF. SYMBIOSIS WITH RICK ARE OVER, AND OUR £/¥ES CAN’ GO ON? BUT TOWARDS WHAT EAD? <> RICK AND I THROUGH -- AND wow GOT TO GET THE HANG OF £/V7NG AGAIN! HERE FOR OUR EDITORIAL CONFERENCE -- LIKE A BREATH OF WEW YORK AIR TO CLEAR-- IT WON'T BE &AsSY ROBERTSON-- FORGET ABOUT DANVERS! f EXPOSE FUNMY--THE FIRST TIME I've HAO Penmacy IN YEARS, WHAT DO FEE YOU SHOULD HAVE AMWSWERED THOSE QUESTIONS £0NG AGOS WHO AME YOU MARVELL? WHAT DO YOU REALLY CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGEseseevavoeoun, [aueeremoae | [vars oum| | Sara u ' REET Cee, MY INNERMOST | | my CRAAIEM. a (BIC -- BUTE TIGNES To Te OR ONE OF YOUR ADS) THOUGHTS MORE, CAN rece! MORE CHEERFUL HALE OF OUR COSMIC DUO... M'BOY ! "RE LOOKING UPPER TOOAY, MAY SAY SO!HOW MANY “NOT TEN THOUSANDS 1 “ SEWHES "NE NS RE MARVELL (MIMGLES VERY MANY” = MORDECAI--! DESTROY WW YORKERS, WHILE HIS THEM ALL ‘ ‘CAUSE IF ul YOU DOM ’F I'M GONNA 00 TO you WHAT T GoIoD — ARE THESE POWERS TO A MAN, WITHOUT I PEMAND TO AND WHAT LEAD A L/FE-- Oo SETTER PLACE IT THAN 4ERE-- eS oo Set oa Ny Le eee tae . é MY Lil 2 7 fe TIME AND AGAIN== _ {ail YAZ78 --DARING EVEN C My) 12 RAISE MY LA HAND AGAINST MY FELLOW KREE! PERHAPS of “PERHAPS Witt HAVE ¥. TO RVATT, MAR-VELL. Fs 7 CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGEFOR YEARS MY MIND HAS KNOWN THE TREAD BE WARNED, MAR-VELL--! LAM MEREURIOX! (T 1S NOT WISE TO DEFY MY POWER THUS! BET! THE ONLY Pevice PS POWERFUL x Le . ENOUGH TO SAVE « — Fy >. Qe ee wy PO NSS ee” ED OF YOUR AVO/ OTE , WHICH CAN BE TRANSFORMED (NTO THE MOST CANGEROUS WEAPON IN THE Cosmos!WAIT, MARVELL! LISTEN TO me! I ONLY SNEAKED INTO YOUR MAIND BECAUSE I SEALED YOU. WOULD MY REQUEST I NO--! T WILL DYE BEFORE SURRENDER: ING (TS SECRET TO ONE BASE ENOUGH TO ATTEMPT TO STEAL IT! I_SWEAR THAT I SHALL -- USE THE DEADLY FROST OF (CY SPMACE AND THE Ti Gre STRAIN NY POWER WITHERING FURY OF SUMER-NOVA HEAT TO FORCE YOu A TO ITS £4M/7S -- YOU TO GIVE ME BUT A MOMENT TO EXPLAIN! MOMENT TO KOLAIM, SY ee -- -- THE SAME MOMENT YOU GAVE ME, BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO PILFER_ A > SEC THE SKRULLS WOULD Give all FIETY PLANETS TO POSSESS! fy 1 CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGEYOUR FEIGNED DEFEAT HAS FAILED To. THROW ME OFF MY GUARD! yous et Y HAS FAILED, MERCUI => THAT YOU eee Ms Bae“(AND HE FALLS SUU&TLY TO BUT I ONLY WANTED HIM SEEMINGLY FROZEN DEATH / STUNNED -- HOT AUGLED! I'VE GOT TO PreK HIS \ oh BRAINS / AND_UNTIL ~( MEeRcuRIO! 1 wemey OF l LISTEN CLOSELY. MAR-VELL. A Talis GamePLayvine/ AND UISen wees toe UNLES: Cl THEN LET us AWD AIP ME -- AY DIMENSION IT DN ee tee | DIES!FOR YOU SEE, THE LIFE ENERGIES SULPORTING WY CUMENSION. ARE CONSTANTLY == AND TWICE BEFORE HAVE I COME TO 7H¢E DIMENSION TO TRY TO SAVE MY OWA! ‘I THOUGHT THE PIECES OF eae ENOUGH TO POWER aan ONLY THE OAsair~ HAS THE POWER TO RE-ENERGIZE \T! 7 UNTIL MAR-VELL RETURNS FROM HIS INTER- DIMENSIONAL TOURHEY, z DURING MY SECOMD STAY, THE MIGHTY THOR AND I GAINED eee EWE SPAWNER OF AFTER BATTLING WITH WORLDS! EVEN; 212-216 EATED FOR PROPA- GANOA PURPOSES BY MERCURIO-- 00th AO MEANWHILE IN A KREE SPACECRAET ORBITING UTE f ~=WHAT IF HE DOES MOT RETURN? Warrs\s te NOT CAPTAIN MAR-VELL ? THEN FEAR NOT. HE wilt SURVIVE.YOU CRAVEN Fe f HOW COULD YOU HAVE MISSED? CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE--A WAR THAT OUR RACE CAN NO LONGER\®@, SHALL BEGIN ENDURE THIS SLUG-LIKE \@ UFE OF MEACE CONTENT |?” TO BASK IN THE GoD- JEWELS RAYS! FOR MONTHS T HAVE BEEN ORGANIZING OUR. i; INVASION FORCES 4 (j OUR ATTACK SHALL BEGIN ONCE WE HAVE WRESTED FROM YOU THE SECRET OF THE OMANI-WAVE PROJECTOR! ONLY A MANOEUL OF YOU'VE TRICKED ME AND £4/€D KREE KNOW THE TO ME, MERCURIO-- AND AS SOON AS I AVA/SA WITH THESE SOLDIERS OF YOURS, T SHALL REPAY YOUR TREACHERY/ “AND THAT (3 THE WayTHE ANSWER TO THAT ee MUST WUT, AS WE VISIT WITH RICK 5 BUSY DOWNING A BREW AWAITING A REGMIOM OF... WHICH THREATENS % - i i ee mae nena *REMENGER THERA FROM COUNTLESS EARLY A z ISSUES OF bib, LACEMFERS, ETC. ?-- Malach CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGE ~-acawsT a wever-| } i> ) ENDING WWE OF | i FOES diWHATS THE MATTER, BILL BISHOP Rick, YA BUZZED REMEMBER! T Haven'T RICK = DON'TCHA ME WHEN I GOT OLE DUTY, FORGOTTEN A SECONDS EMEMBER A.C. AND I DASHED RIGHT OVER!| | THE TEEN BRIGADE DION'T WANT TO MISS TAS! OAYS HOLP SOME OF THE q | AEST MEMORIES OF MY LIFE! JHE POLICE FORCE? GEE, THAT CERTAINLY SOUNDS MORE EXCIFING THAN MY JOB AS CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, FREE Him? KLE HIM, YOU MEAN, . | YOU TRIGGER- KNOCK OFF THE GLA PLAY BEFORE RICK J GETS HURTSAMMM... YOUR GENETIC BIO- READINGS ARE ADEQUATE, YOU MIGHT JUST DO AT THAT. = DHAVE COME ALL THE WAY FROM THE AREE- \ HOMEWORLD, RICK JONES-- --FOR CAPTAIN IF HE AALS TO RETURN FROM HIS MAR-VELLS MISSION IN THE FOURTH DIMENSTON- you'LL HAVE TO OVE AA, OF COURSE. *= YOU WILL HAVE | . TO SUIT MY PURPOSES! AS A FEELING OF HORROR OVERCOMES RICK JONES, . THE WARRIOR CALLE MAR-VELL REPELS THE CHOKING MINIONS WHO SEEK TO BURY Him | PERHAPS YOU COULD DEFEAT ME IE YOU HAD MORE THAN MERE BRUTE FORCE ON YOUR SIDE-- --OR IF E HAD ANYTHING LESS THAN THE MIND OF cA: INUED AFTER NEXT PAGETRIUMPH (Ss BORN OF =-AND FOUND ) WANTING! }I FEEL IT, MERCURIO- i [ENDURED BY ONE WHO Has \P THEY CAN BE BUT THE TWIN FORCES TRAVERSED THE ERIGID CHALLENGED! You euler. CAN PEAONESS OF SPACE AND BE EWDUR, RESISTED THE SEARING } GARVLLIANCE OF SUNS! HEN HE WaAEWS, HE WILL £AOw THAT IF HE EVER RETURNS TO AND HOPEFULLY I HAVE also IAF TEREP WIS ARROGANT PRIDE! EXT: EOL BOO (ee!