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Magazine Management, the magazine and comic-book publishing parent of Marvel Comics at the time, released a number of magazine-format comics in the 1970s, primarily from 1973 to 1977. Marvel's attempt at entering the comics-magazine field dominated by Warren Publishing, the new line of mostly black-and-white anthology magazines predominantly featured horror, sword and sorcery, and science fiction. The magazines did not carry the Marvel name, but were produced by Marvel staffers and freelancers, and featured characters regularly found in Marvel comic books, as well as some creator-owned material. In addition to the many horror titles, magazines in this group included ''Savage Sword of Conan'', ''Deadly Hands of Kung Fu'', ''Marvel Preview'', and ''Planet of the Apes''. The magazine format did not fall under the purview of the Comics Code, allowing the titles to feature stronger content — such as moderate profanity, partial nudity, and more graphic violence — than Marvel's mainstream color comic books. The magazines featured fully painted covers by illustrators including Earl Norem, Bob Larkin, Ken Barr, Luis Dominguez, Neal Adams, Frank Brunner, Boris Vallejo, and Joe Jusko. Initially, the magazines' page-counts varied between 68, 76, and 84 pages. Writer Doug Moench contributed heavily to the magazines, including to the entire runs of ''Planet of the Apes'', ''Rampaging Hulk'' (continuing on the title when it changed its name to ''The Hulk!''), and ''Doc Savage'', while also writing for virtually every other title in the line. Marvel production manager Sol Brodsky, who in 1970 had helped launch Skywald Publications' line of black-and-white horror magazines before returning to Marvel, served in that role here as well.〔Arndt, Richard J. ("A 2005 Interview with Tony Isabella!" ) Enjolrasworld.com: Marvel’s Black & White Horror Magazines Checklist. Accessed May 4, 2013.〕 Lead editors for the magazine group were Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman, and later Archie Goodwin and John Warner. Tony Isabella, Don McGregor, and David Anthony Kraft also spent stints editing magazine titles. In addition to original content, many issues included reprinted material, including a number of stories originally published before the 1954 introduction of the Comics Code. Production values were considered poor, especially in comparison to Warren and Skywald's black-and-white magazines.〔Arndt, Richard J. ("Marvel’s Black & White Horror Magazines Checklist," ) Enjolrasworld.com. Accessed May 4, 2013.〕 == Curtis brand == Initially, the only company brand on the magazines was the "three C's" Curtis Circulation Company logo (Curtis being Marvel's distributor and an affiliated company). The Marvel Comics brand and logo did not always appear on the cover or in the indicia; the only obvious relation to Marvel being the publisher's name, Magazine Management, a name that the four-color comics stopped using in 1973 but was retained for the black-and-white magazines.〔The "three C's" logo was also used for some of Magazine Management publisher Martin Goodman's men's humor cartoon magazines such as ''Best Cartoons'', ''Cartoons & Gags'', ''Cartoon Laughs'', ''Popular Cartoons'', and ''Popular Jokes'' during the 1970s. Most of these magazines contained single-panel cartoons, but many of them also contained short "Pussycat" stories by Jim Mooney and others. Other so-called Curtis magazines included the ''Sensuous Streaker'' one-shot and ''Nostalgia Illustrated'', which lasted for nearly a year. None of these magazines were advertised in Marvel comic books.〕 Nonetheless, Marvel characters appeared regularly in the magazine line, and many of the magazine titles were featured in the four-color comics' house advertisements. The Curtis imprint was reduced to "CC" in 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of magazines released by Marvel Comics in the 1970s」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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