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5April 1973
$0.20

Warlock #5

Marvel · April 1973 · on sale January 23, 1973

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Identification plate

Series: Warlock (Marvel, 1972 series)
Issue: #5
Publication date: April 1973
Key date: April 1973
On-sale date: January 23, 1973
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.20
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Day of the Death-Birds!	cover	1	pencils: Gil Kane; inks: Frank Giacoia; letters: Danny Crespi	Victor Von Doom, Adam Warlock
1	The Day of the Death Birds!	comic story	20	script: Ron Goulart; pencils: Gil Kane; inks: Tom Sutton; colors: G. Roussos; letters: Artie Simek	Victor Von Doom, High Evolutionary, Adam Warlock, Herbert Edgar Wyndham
2	The Latest Low-Down on Marvel's Light-Hearted Luminaries-For Literature-Lovers at Large!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
3	-	letters page	1	letters: typeset

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.06 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Warlock #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-6331-2	2012	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Warlock #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-8858-2	2014	On eBay ›
Adam Warlock Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-94987-7	2022	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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