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Amazing Adventures #12

Name: Amazing Adventures #12
Brand: Marvel
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May 1972 · Marvel · 0.20 USD

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Amazing Adventures #12 (May 1972) marks the formal handoff of the newly-transformed, furry Beast to writer Steve Englehart — his first credited superhero work at Marvel — deepening the Bronze Age horror-inflected reinvention that Gerry Conway and Tom Sutton had launched one issue earlier. The story is significant for threading Hank McCoy's body-horror predicament into the wider Marvel universe by pitting him against Iron Man and introducing a Magneto-free incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mastermind, Blob, and Unus), the first such lineup not assembled by Magneto. Englehart's psychological approach — foregrounding McCoy's alienation, volcanic temper, and desperate improvised disguise — set the emotional template that would eventually make Beast one of the X-Men's most compelling characters in the decades to come.

writer, colorist Steve Englehart · artist Tom Sutton · inker Mike Ploog · letterer Artie Simek · cover Gil Kane, Joe Sinnott

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History

Roy Thomas conceived the idea of transforming Hank McCoy into a hirsute mutate to give the character a solo strip, and Gerry Conway got the concept off the ground in issue #11 before immediately handing scripting duties to the twenty-four-year-old newcomer Steve Englehart, whose arrival at Marvel was announced in the same month's Bullpen Bulletins. Englehart's task in #12 was to solve the practical narrative puzzle Conway had left: how does a fur-covered former X-Man hold down a day job at the Brand Corporation without being detected? Tom Sutton pencilled the interior story, with Mike Ploog — then also inking Werewolf by Night — contributing inks that amplified the horror-monster atmosphere, while Gil Kane and Joe Sinnott produced the cover.

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Cover dated May 1972; on-sale February 22, 1972; published by Marvel Comics under editor Roy Thomas.
Written by Steve Englehart (his first credited superhero work at Marvel) with pencils by Tom Sutton and inks by Mike Ploog; cover by Gil Kane (pencils) and Joe Sinnott (inks); cover colors credited to Steve Englehart himself.
Interior story titled 'Iron Man: D.O.A.' — Hank McCoy, still in his newly permanent grey-furred form from issue #11, fashions a lifelike latex mask, gloves, and a painful posture-correcting brace to pass as human at the Brand Corporation.
Features a cameo by Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde), the Blob (Frederick Dukes), and Unus the Untouchable (Gunther Bain) — a post-Magneto Brotherhood of Evil Mutants lineup operating independently; Mastermind is revealed to have used illusion powers to make Beast believe he killed Iron Man, hoping to recruit him into the Brotherhood.
Iron Man (Tony Stark) and Marianne Rodgers appear as supporting characters; Rodgers uses her ESP to sense that Linda Donaldson (secretly a spy for the same subversive organization as the late Carl Maddicks) is not what she seems.
The rest of the classic X-Men — Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel, and Professor X — appear in recap/flashback only, reflecting the broader X-Men franchise's limbo status at the time.
Reprinted in Avengers #136 (June 1975), though pages 2, 3, and 21 were omitted; also collected in Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men Vol. 7, Essential Classic X-Men Vol. 3, and X-Men Epic Collection #4: It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn (2019).
This issue launches the arc (running through #13) in which the Brotherhood attempts to recruit the newly monstrous Beast, tying the solo strip directly to X-Men mythology and setting up the longer Secret Empire storyline Englehart would develop across subsequent issues.