The Marvel Lucky Bag - November 1975.

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It takes money to see a film at the cinema.

But what if someone were to let us sneak in through a fire door?

Then we could see as many films as we liked!

But what would we like?

Well, we might like some of the films that were released in November 1975, such as The Sunshine Boys, Stardust (if we lived in America), A Boy and His Dog and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The only one of those films I've ever seen is Stardust and the only things I recall of it are that it stars Adam Faith and David Essex and closes with the song of the same name. However, I'm going to assume it doesn't end happily for the protagonist, as it's a 1970s movie about the music business, and we all know how those always end.

But what's this?

It's that rare thing, a sighting of Conan drawn by Jack Kirby.

A sight that, I suppose, brings back memories of Barry Smith's early, Kirby-inspired, days on the strip.

Speaking of which, in the following action-packed 68 pages, Conan reprints his way to glory, as he encounters Elric of Melnibone for the first time, thanks to the pencils of the aforementioned Barry.

But that's not all, because we also encounter The Blood of the Dragon! as first seen in Conan the Barbarian #12 and drawn by Garrulous Gil Kane.

Iron Fist finally gets a comic of his very own!

But he'll be lucky to survive to the end of the first issue, due to having to combat Iron Man; after breaking into Stark Industries, in search of Colleen Wing.

Does he find her?

No. He finds Misty Knight.

To be honest, I'd settle for finding Misty Knight instead of Colleen Wing.

Unfortunately, he also finds Shellhead's knuckles, which are rather less appealing.

Erik Killmonger may have been finally disposed of - but now the Panther must deal with Erik's upset girlfriend Madam Slay who likes to kill people...

...with leopards!

Red Sonja leaps into her very own regular series, thanks to the launch of Marvel Feature.

Two stories make up this sword-shattering issue.

In the first, our heroine enters a temple and is promptly attacked by Satyrs!

In the second, she delivers a tiara to someone called King Ghannif but soon learns her reward is to become part of his harem!

That tale is, of course, reprinted from Savage Sword of Conan #1.

Is it the first story ever to feature her scale-armour bikini?

I have a feeling it may be.

There's a coincidence. Mere days ago, I remarked upon this month's launch of DC comics' Hercules series and, now, Marvel's version of the prince of power also gets his own solo outing.

And one in which he must take on the might of Typhon!

As we all know, a Treasury-sized adaptation of The Wizard of Oz was the first collaboration between Marvel and DC.

This time, however, we encounter an all-Marvel extravaganza, as something or other happens.

Whatever it is that happens, it takes up a massive 75 pages. So, it must be fairly substantial.

And it's brought to us by Roy Thomas, Alfredo Alcala and Mary DeZuniga .

As Iron Man and the Thing quickly discover, Prester John's back - and has been driven mad by an evil magic stone that's making him want to take over the whole world!