Amazing Adventures #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAmazing Adventures #9 is the first installment of the final Inhumans feature to run in Amazing Adventures, and it marks the only time in Bronze Age Marvel where Magneto squared off against the Inhumans — a collision of two distinct 'othered' species that gave early Marvel's outsider-persecution theme unusual density. The issue also delivers the first appearance of the Trikon, a trio of Alpha Primitives evolved through Terrigenesis by Maximus, whose brief existence carried genuine stakes for Inhuman society before the feature was cancelled. Narratively, it serves as a crucial — if editorially tangled — bridge, reuniting the dispersed Royal Family just before the Kree-Skrull War arc in Avengers absorbed their storyline, cementing the Inhumans as active participants in the wider Bronze Age Marvel universe rather than isolated curiosities.
In Amazing Adventures #9 (1971), the Inhumans—Medusa, Gorgon, and Karnak—race through San Francisco searching for their missing king, Black Bolt, after a mysterious attack by a group of mutants. When a telepathic mutant reveals Black Bolt has been taken by Magneto, who seeks to recruit him into a mutant army, the trio follow a reluctant guide to Magneto’s hidden underground lair—only to be captured themselves. Written by Gerry Conway and illustrated by Mike Sekowsky, with inks by Bill Everett and letters by Jon Costanza, this issue features a striking cover by John Buscema and Joe Sinnott.
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Issues #1–4 of Amazing Adventures had been shepherded by Jack Kirby himself, but after Kirby's departure, Roy Thomas and Neal Adams took over the Inhumans feature beginning with #5. Adams grew dissatisfied when Gerry Conway was brought in to script #7 rather than Thomas continuing exclusively, and both Adams and Thomas departed after #8, leaving the open storyline unresolved. Stan Lee, as editor-in-chief, handed the final two Inhumans chapters — #9 and #10 — to writer Gerry Conway and penciler Mike Sekowsky, though Conway and Adams's parallel conclusions to the same story arc created conspicuous continuity contradictions that collector forums have noted for decades. The issue also reflects a production-era price-point transition: it was a 20-cent regular issue at a moment when most Marvel titles had jumped to 25-cent Giant format, a anomaly noted in its own letters column.
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- Cover date: November 1971; released August 1971. Published by Marvel Comics under editor-in-chief Stan Lee.
- Written by Gerry Conway, penciled by Mike Sekowsky, inked by Bill Everett, lettered by Jon Costanza.
- Story title: '…And the Madness of Magneto!' — Magneto, mistaking the Inhumans for fellow mutants, captures Black Bolt and his Royal Family to conscript their powers for his war against humanity.
- First appearance of the Trikon: three Alpha Primitives whose intelligence was enhanced by Maximus and who subsequently underwent Terrigenesis, transforming into spheres of energy — created by Conway and Sekowsky.
- First appearance of Magneto's mutant lieutenants Mooneye, Krystar, and Obar, all antagonists serving Magneto in this two-part story.
- First appearance of Haight-Ashbury as a named Marvel Earth-616 location; the Inhumans, living as displaced persons in San Francisco, are led through its streets to Magneto's sewer hideout.
- This is the last Inhumans feature to occupy the full issue of Amazing Adventures; starting with #11, the Beast (Hank McCoy) took over as the series' lead character.
- The issue is one of the few 20-cent comics Marvel published that month, while most contemporaneous titles were 25-cent Giants — a fact acknowledged in the letters page of Amazing Adventures #11, which also explained the cancellation of planned 1950s reprint backups (a Venus story and a Yellow Claw story) that had been erroneously solicited in Marvel's Mighty Checklist.
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Reprinted in Il Mitico Thor #61 (1973), Frankenstein #4 (1976), Marvel Masterworks: The Inhumans #1 (2009), Black Bolt: Something Inhuman This Way Comes #1 (2013), Civil War II: X-Men #[nn] (2016), 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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