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manages this with stunning Reese art on Fred Pohl's "The Day After the Day the Martians Came!" (adapted by Gerry Conway) and lyrical Kane drawings for Ed Hamilton's "He That Hath Wings", which the artist also scripted".
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Five months after the title's cancellation, Marvel would revisit the idea of science fiction story adaptations with the black-and-white comics magazine
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Critic David A. Roach wrote of the series: "he best issues are those featuring Gil Kane or Ralph Reese.... The first
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adaptation with a new, original lead feature titled "Cyborg", it instead cancelled the comic and ran the feature in
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with more thematic cohesiveness than the company's earlier attempts that decade, which had included such series as
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With the four titles' debuts set to be staggered over the course of four months, Marvel premiered
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The final two issues changed direction and featured an adaptation of the contemporaneous film
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May 1973 to August 1974. The title was one of four launched by Marvel Comics editor-in-chief
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from the original (requires scrolldown), November 19, 2011.
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on a short story previously adapted for an episode of the
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at The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators.
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DC Comics
Dick Giordano
Publisher
Marvel Comics
science fiction
comic book
Marvel Comics
short stories
Frederik Pohl
Harry Bates
Theodore Sturgeon
Marvel Comics
science fiction
cover-dated
Roy Thomas
horror
anthologies
Chamber of Darkness
Tower of Shadows
Journey into Mystery
Chamber of Chills
Supernatural Thrillers
The Day After the Day the Martians Came
Gerry Conway
Ralph Reese
penciler
Gil Kane
Edmond Hamilton
pulp magazine

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