I’m not sure who all was clamoring for a Man-Wolf series, but given the explosion of horror books in 1974, I suppose it was inevitable.
In the first arc, we meet Simon Stroud, a cop who is chasing down Man-Wolf. He’ll also appear in future issues of Morbius, so I’ve tagged him. Stroud chases Man-Wolf to the Statue of Liberty, shoots at him, and watches Man-Wolf fall to his “death.”
But of course he doesn’t die.
I suppose there were some opportunities here to give J. Jonah some character growth–seeing as how his kid is now the kind of nemesis The Daily Bugle tends to rail about–but if that’s where they’re going, it doesn’t happen in these first two issues.
Note: The prior 30 issues of this series were reprints and creature features. Nothing canon.
I have to agree with Mr. Ekko, here- just what made Marvel think that Marvel Assembled wanted or needed a ‘Man-Wolf’ series in 1974-or ever- is a Mighty Marvel Mystery to me- I mean, by that time, wasn’t “The House of Ideas” ALREADY publishing a “Werewolf By Night” series that nobody was reading at that time, either-??? This isn’t even a case of “too much of a good thing”- it’s just a case of “too much of a DUMB thing”! I remember thinking quite clearly in 1974, “If Marvel would spend even one QUARTER of as much time, energy, and effort on the mainline superhero titles which built their “House of Ideas”, then everybody involved- creators, the product, and certainly not the least- the readership- would all be happier, and much, much, better off!” And the publisher could have concentrated on SAVING series which DESERVED to be saved, like ‘The “Savage” Sub-Mariner’………….lastly, as a final reflection on Marvel Comic’s “The Man-Wolf”…………for the life of me, I could never take this character seriously as a “horror” character, anyway, for two reasons: 1) He never killed anybody. Werewolves kill people, it’s just what they do. A werewolf who doesn’t kill people is like a butcher who doesn’t cut meat. 2) He never looked like a wolf to me- he always looked to me like a cute doggie, which is precisely how Morbius treated him in ‘Giant-Size Super-Heroes’ #1 ……….it’s hard to be afraid of a cute doggie…………………..