CATALOG RECORD

All Select Comics 70th Anniversary Special #1

Marvel · Series began 2009 · September 2009

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Dates

Cover date: September 2009
On sale: July 15, 2009
Pages: 52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition

Barcode 75960606764000111
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Variant Cover
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Creators

pencils: Russ Heath, Hal Sharp, Javier Pulido, Michael Kupperman, Alex Schomburg, Dale Eagleshaminks: Russ Heath, Hal Sharp, Javier Pulido, Michael Kupperman, Alex Schomburgcolors: Matt Hollingsworth, Javier Rodríguez, Michael Kupperman, Paul Mountsscript: Marc Guggenheim, Michael Kupperman, Jonathan Hickmanletters: Dave Lanphear, Rus Wootonediting: Joe Simon, Tom Brevoort, Lauren Sankovitch

Stories

Murder on Another Planet · 16 pages
The Origin of Marvex the Super-Robot · 7 pages
Weird creatures of the 5th Dimension create a super robot in order to send him to Earth to capture human beings to become slaves in that dimension. But Marvex retaliates against his masters, and, by means of an explosion, is blown out of the 5th Dimension to Earth.
The Spike Green Case · 8 pages
Marvex looks into the troubling case of a man sitting on death row awaiting execution for a crime in which witnesses in his favor disappeared mysteriously before the trial.

Characters

Marvex

Reprinted in

Timely 70th Anniversary Collection (2009), Strange Tales (2010), Strange Tales (2010), Timely 70th Anniversary Collection (2010)