Marvel Super-Heroes 1967 #15 - reader copy - $8.00

• Key event: First solo appearance of Medusa

Sub-Mariner, as a boy, learns that he can live outside of water indefinitely.

The Black Marvel stops a group of criminals who have sabotaged the power plant to provide cover to steal weapons to set themselves up as the local criminal power. In the middle of this story, we see the Black Marvel's origin as a white man who successfully completes the physical trials to take over the position of the dying chief of the Blackfeet tribe after all of the tribe's braves had failed.

A Russian scientist tries to drug Cap into becoming a communist.

On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• - Inside front cover, issue credits, listing of stories with one panel reprinted from each story. Credits include Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, John Verpoorten, Stan Goldberg, Morrie Kuramoto and Flo Steinberg.
• The Greatest Event in the History of Comic Magazines! - House ad featuring a Romita drawn image of the cover to Spectacular Spider-Man, The (Marvel, 1968 series) #1 (July 1968). Placed between pages 14 and 15 of the Medusa story.
• The Siege of Camelot! - Title from cover. Stan Lee writer credit removed based on information from the Timely/Atlas discussion list.
• The Origin of the Black Marvel - Note that some sources claim that Stan Lee co-created the Black Marvel, but Lee's first writing credit for a text filler, has been established as being in Captain America Comics #3, with his first comic scripting credit a few issues after that.
• - Letters from: Bob Schoenfeld, George Parsons Jr., Leonard Lipton, and Jeff Pierce. Includes promo for the next issue.