Marvel Comics · Marvel Premiere #28 · February 1976 · $0.25 · 32 pages
Grade: F- 5.5
Creator credits for this issue are not fully confirmed in our reference data and are omitted here rather than guessed.
Four of Marvel's monster heavyweights — Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Morbius, and Werewolf by Night — appear together as a unit for the first time. Each character had built their own solo footprint in the early-to-mid Bronze Age horror boom, and this is the issue where Marvel put them in the same room. The Legion of Monsters isn't a superhero team in the conventional sense; these are creatures operating at the margins of the Marvel Universe, and the friction between them is the point.
Marvel Premiere was the series Marvel used to test concepts and characters before committing to an ongoing — it launched Iron Fist, Adam Warlock's rebirth, and Doctor Strange's solo run from this platform. Issue #28 is a different kind of entry: not a tryout for a new character, but the formal assembly of an existing monster ecosystem into something with a name and a collective identity.
The Legion of Monsters name and lineup established here became the canonical reference point for every subsequent revival — the 2007 one-shot, the 2011 series, all of it traces back to this issue. For collectors working the Bronze Age horror corner, this is the convergence point.
Condition F- 5.5 — .
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Marvel Comics · Marvel Premiere #28 · February 1976 · $0.25 · 32 pages
Grade: F- 5.5
Creator credits for this issue are not fully confirmed in our reference data and are omitted here rather than guessed.
Four of Marvel's monster heavyweights — Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Morbius, and Werewolf by Night — appear together as a unit for the first time. Each character had built their own solo footprint in the early-to-mid Bronze Age horror boom, and this is the issue where Marvel put them in the same room. The Legion of Monsters isn't a superhero team in the conventional sense; these are creatures operating at the margins of the Marvel Universe, and the friction between them is the point.
Marvel Premiere was the series Marvel used to test concepts and characters before committing to an ongoing — it launched Iron Fist, Adam Warlock's rebirth, and Doctor Strange's solo run from this platform. Issue #28 is a different kind of entry: not a tryout for a new character, but the formal assembly of an existing monster ecosystem into something with a name and a collective identity.
The Legion of Monsters name and lineup established here became the canonical reference point for every subsequent revival — the 2007 one-shot, the 2011 series, all of it traces back to this issue. For collectors working the Bronze Age horror corner, this is the convergence point.
Condition F- 5.5 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
