Man-Thing #13

Name: Man-Thing #13
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Jan 1975 · Marvel · 0.25 USD

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“Red Sails at 40,000 Feet!”

★ 1st appearance — Captain Fate★ 1st appearance — Maura Spinner

Man-Thing clashes with a swashbuckling, red-coated Captain Fate alongside the hull of a tall ship in this striking January 1975 cover penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Klaus Janson — the cover text promising the muck-encrusted creature will be "hacked to pieces." Titled "Death in the Land of the Damned," this issue of Marvel's most startling swamp creature series pits the shambling Man-Thing against a pirate adversary who looks every bit as menacing as the monster he threatens. Steve Gerber scripts the interior with art from John Buscema and Tom Sutton, making this a genuinely compelling chapter in one of Marvel's most imaginatively offbeat titles of the Bronze Age.

writer Steve Gerber · artist John Buscema · artist, inker Tom Sutton · colorist P. Goldberg · letterer John Costanza · cover Gil Kane, Klaus Janson

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Trivia · 8 facts

First appearance of Captain Fate (Jebediah Fate), a cursed 18th-century pirate captain whose ghost ship, the Serpent's Crown, haunts the Bermuda Triangle; created by Steve Gerber, John Buscema, and Tom Sutton.
First appearance of Dr. Maura Spinner, an oceanographer leading a Bermuda Triangle research expedition aboard the cargo ship Marietta; she is established as the modern-era reincarnation of pirate queen Maura Hawke, the former captain of Captain Fate's crew.
The story is titled 'Red Sails at 40,000 Feet!' — the Man-Thing blunders aboard the Marietta at Port Everglades and is carried to the Bermuda Triangle, where Captain Fate's sky-sailing ghost brigantine materializes and abducts both him and Maura.
The issue ends on a cliffhanger with Man-Thing frozen solid in the vacuum of space above Earth's atmosphere after being thrown overboard from Fate's flying ship; the arc concludes in Man-Thing #14 ('Tower of the Satyr!'), drawn by Alfredo Alcala.
Captain Fate's backstory, revealed across the two-parter, involves a two-century-old curse imposed by the satyr wizard Khordes: Fate had betrayed his captain, Maura Hawke, by trading her to Khordes for treasure, and Khordes's curse has left Fate and his crew in undead, ghastly form ever since.
The issue was edited by Roy Thomas and featured a Gil Kane / Klaus Janson cover; the Marvel Database and Grand Comics Database both confirm the full creative credits as: writer Steve Gerber, penciller John Buscema, inker Tom Sutton, colorist Petra Goldberg, letterer John Costanza.
Captain Fate reappeared in Man-Thing Vol. 2 #7–8 (1980–81), and decades later resurfaced as a villain in Paul Cornell's Captain Britain and MI13 #12–14 (2009), fighting alongside Dracula's vampire invasion force before being defeated by the Black Knight.
Man-Thing #13 is collected in Man-Thing by Steve Gerber: The Complete Collection Vol. 2 (Marvel, 2016), which gathers Man-Thing (1974) #9–18, Giant-Size Man-Thing #1–5, and related material.