Amazing Adventures #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAmazing Adventures #10 (January 1972) closes the book on the Inhumans' first solo feature — a ten-issue run that began with the series' launch in August 1970 and marked the characters' graduation from Fantastic Four supporting players to headliners in their own right. As the swan song of that Inhumans era, the issue functions as both a narrative endpoint and a structural pivot: the very next issue handed the title over to the Beast, whose transformation there into his blue-furred form would prove far more creatively consequential than anything that followed the Royal Family here. The Inhumans' plotlines were left so unresolved that Roy Thomas and Neal Adams had to continue them in Avengers #95, a telling sign of how the series struggled editorially even as it established Black Bolt and company as fixtures of the wider Marvel Universe. The issue's backup reprint of the Kirby/Lee Inhumans origin from Thor #146 gives the finale a self-conscious retrospective quality, as if Marvel editorial recognized this chapter was closing.
In the heart of San Francisco, Medusa, Gorgon, and Karnak race against time to find the missing Black Bolt, only to be ambushed by a band of mutants. When a telepath reveals that Magneto has captured the Inhuman king and seeks to force him into joining his mutant army, the trio must rely on a reluctant ally to guide them to Magneto’s hidden lair—where they’ll face the ultimate test of loyalty and power. "--In His Hand --- the World!" is a pulse-pounding journey into the shadows of a divided world, where even the strongest can be held in the palm of an enemy’s hand.
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The Inhumans feature in Amazing Adventures was launched in August 1970 as part of Marvel's strategy of pairing two characters in a split anthology title, with Jack Kirby writing and drawing the first four issues before handing the strip off to Roy Thomas and Neal Adams. By issue #9, Thomas and Adams had also departed the Inhumans half, and writer Gerry Conway — who would soon turn the scripting over to Steve Englehart for the Beast stories beginning in #12 — finished the run with artist Mike Sekowsky across issues #9 and #10. The issue was edited by Stan Lee and carries a cover by Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott, with Frank Giacoia inking Sekowsky's interiors. The awkward editorial situation around the book is reflected in the fact that Thomas and Adams' unresolved Inhumans plots were simultaneously being wrapped up in Avengers #95, a concurrent story that largely ignored what Conway had been doing with the characters in these final two issues.
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- Final issue of the Inhumans feature in Amazing Adventures — the Royal Family had headlined the title from #1 (August 1970) through this issue #10 (January 1972), after which the Beast took over as lead character beginning in #11.
- Lead story: 'In His Hand — the World!' (Part 2 of 2), written by Gerry Conway, penciled by Mike Sekowsky, inked by Frank Giacoia, with a cover by Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott.
- Plot centers on Magneto holding the Inhuman Royal Family captive and using his 'Universal Machine' — which makes its first and only appearance in this issue (destroyed by issue's end) — to coerce an amnesiac Black Bolt into raiding a government research facility for a cosmic energy source.
- Black Bolt ultimately breaks Magneto's hold when the villain's own mental assault inadvertently restores the king's memory; the reunited Royal Family then defeats Magneto, whose next appearance is Avengers #110.
- The Trikon — three Alpha Primitives transformed into spheres of raw mental energy by Maximus — reappear in this issue, but their second battle with the Inhumans is never depicted; the Inhumans' run ends before that confrontation, leaving the Trikon storyline dangling until Inhumans: The Untold Saga (1990) and Quasar #14–15 (1990).
- Backup story: a reprint of 'The Origin of the Incomparable Inhumans!' from Thor #146 (1967), scripted by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Joe Sinnott — the story that introduced ancient Inhuman king Randac and his fateful decision to enter the Terrigen Mists.
- After this issue, the Inhumans' continuity was immediately picked up in Avengers #95 (Roy Thomas/Neal Adams), which resolved the plotlines from the Thomas/Adams run while largely bypassing the Conway-scripted issues #9–10.
- The full run of Inhumans stories from Amazing Adventures #1–10 was collected in Marvel Masterworks: Inhumans Volume 1 (October 2009).
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↩ Reprints Thor #146 (1967)
Reprinted in Il Mitico Thor #62 (1973), Frankenstein #4 (1976), Marvel Masterworks: The Inhumans #1 (2009), Black Bolt: Something Inhuman This Way Comes #1 (2013), The Inhumans: Beware the Inhumans #[nn] (2018), Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов #114 (2018), Marvel Limited Edition TPB. Los Inhumanos #1 (2024)
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