Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 27

  

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 27
Release Date: June 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of Garvan, and his assistant, Jan
• Buth takes Ka-Zar's unconscious body to Aerie Shalan
• After dropping of Ka-Zar, Buth goes back for Shanna
• After dropping of Shanna, Buth goes back for Zabu
• Reference is made to Ka-Zar The Savage 23, 24, 25, and 26
• Dherk, Buth, Zabu, and Ka-Zar enter Shanna's mind in an attempt to restore her sanity
• Ka-Zar proposes to Shanna

Low Points

• You have to read this issue to get the final chapter, but there's no Spider-Man

Oddities

• In preparation to tak Ka-Zar's body to Aerie Shalan, he ties Shanna to a tree to protect her from herself

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 26

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 26
Release Date: May 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of Mr. Markham, Billy Markham, and Linda
• Death of Dr. Mason
• Ka-Zar keeps attacking Spider-Man because he won't tell him were Shanna is
• Reference is made to Ka-Zar the Savage 23, 24, and 25
• Spider-Man explains to a calmed down Ka-Zar why he can't see Shanna
• Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Zabu make it back to the Savage Land, but before he and his girl can formally reunite, he colapses in front of the catatonic Shanna
• In a cliffhanger ending, Zabu brings Buth to the two in hopes of saving them

Low Points

• One more Ka-Zar story to go

Oddities

• After explaining to Ka-Zar that he can't see Shanna, Spider-Man then takes Ka-Zar to Shanna
• Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Zabu are flown back to the Savage Land by a child named Billy, who is going on his first solo flight to get his license - But then the story proceeds to say that the plan fills up several times during the flight - who paid for the gas?

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 25

  

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 25
Release Date: April 1983

Highlights

• Death of Ramona Starr and Drake Previn
• First appearance of Biff the fisherman, and Dr. Mason
• Reference is made to Ka-Zar 23, Marvel Fanfare 2, and Rampaging Hulk 9
• Shanna goes crazy, and rushes to the hospital to once again see Ka-Zar's body, thinking he's alive - It's not his body, but rather one that's been made up to look like him, but still dead nonetheless
• Peter is told by Dr. Mason that Shanna is so far gone that even if she saw Ka-Zar now that it would just break her mind completely - well that's convenient now that he's on his way to her
• Ka-Zar shows up at Peter Parker's apartment, and informs him he knows he's Spider-Man
• Cliffhanger ending with Spider-Man and Ka-Zar facing off as Spidey tries to stop Ka-Zar from seeing Shanna

Low Points

• Still two more issues of Ka-Zar to get through after this one - sigh...
• Peter slaps Shanna upside the head when she goes crazy

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Peter Parker says to Shanna, "You've been so upset since since Ka-Zar's death..."

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 24

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 24
Release Date: March 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of Ruga
• Reference is made to Ka-Zar 22
• Nice of the story to finally inform the reader that Shanna was shot with a dart by Dr. Cortland, and not a bullet
• The dart is making her slowly go insane
• Ka-Zar defeats Shrieber, and then blows up his bunker, ensuring A.I.M. doesn't get the formula to create explosives from the Ickitari plant

Low Points

• Really getting bored of reading Ka-Zar just to get Spider-Man's full story

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 23

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 23
Release Date: February 1983

Highlights

• First appearance of Drake Previn, Roescher, and Freidrick
• First appearance and death of Laslo Victor, and Vobo
• First appearance of Rick's Bar, and the Ickitari plant
• Ka-Zar and Zabu are alive, and in Casablanca
• Ka-Zar is being controlled by an unknown person, who sends electronic shocks through him when he wants Ka-Zar to act
• Ramona (real last name, Starr) reveals she's an agent of A.I.M., and they're using Ka-Zar as muscle
• Ramona reveals in a thought bubble that their efforts to keep Ka-Zar will only work for another few days

Low Points

• Ramona rapes Ka-Zar
• I'm getting bored with Ka-Zar

Oddities

• Shanna was shot in the last issue, but now only has a bang on her head from hitting it on something

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Comics Corner: Kazar The Savage 22

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 22
Release Date: January 1983

Highlights

• The story picks up after Ka-Zar's death, and Peter Parker is escorting Shanna to the funeral home where she's seeing Ka-Zar's headstone being made
• Ramona Cortland shoots Zabu, and Shanna is told he is dead
• Shanna Sneaks into the Cortland's home to kill Ramona, but finds instead someone disguised as her - It's a trap
• Dr. Cortland shoots Shanna

Low Points

• If we're saying this issue chronologically comes after Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man 74 - 76, then it doesn't make sense that Peter is spending so much time with Shanna, and even lets her kiss him - He's smitten with Black Cat, who's also laid up in a hospital bed
• I'll admit the last few issues of Ka-Zar were okay, but I didn't want to have to read so many of them as part of Spider-Man's story arc - There are another five to go after this one

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 21

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 21
Release Date: December 1982

Highlights

• Finally, Spider-Man
• First appearance of Dr. Tuttle
• First appearance of the Riverside Memorial Hospital location
• Despite being wounded, Ka-Zar grabs Kraven as he falls off a building - Unfortunately, in his weakened state, he can't hold him, despite Shanna grabbing hold of him
• Spider-Man saves Ka-Zar, Kraven, and Shanna from their fall off of a building
• Shanna tells Peter about how her and Ka-Zar hooked up
• Ka-Zar takes a turn for the worse on the operating table, eluding to him being dead

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 20

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 20
Release Date: November 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of Ron Frenz, and Bruce Jones
• Ka-Zar and Kraven battle there way into a comic convention, damaging books to the horror of the people around
• Reference is made to Astonishing Tales 2

Low Points

• Still no Spider-Man

Oddities

• Ka-Zar's got a bullet in his brain, but no visible wound when he takes the gauze bandage off his head
• Said wound is also not hindering him with exception of making it so he can't talk, and giving him a headach

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 19

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 19
Release Date: October 1982

Highlights

• Kraven the Hunter makes a cliffhanger ending appearance

Low Points

• Still no Spider-Man appearance in the story arc

Oddities

• When Norm radios from the plane, he informs the person on the other end that they have, "a sick man onboard", except he's not sick, he was shot in the head - Maybe instead say, "critically injured"?
• In issue 18, they're referred to as Ramona and Dr. Cortland. In issue 19, it's now Courtland

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Comics Corner: Ka-Zar The Savage 18

   

Title: Ka-Zar The Savage
Issue Number: 18
Release Date: September 1982

Highlights

• First appearance of Ramona Coutland, Dr. "Doc" Cortland, and Norm
• First appearance and death of Charles, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Dimetrodon
• First appearance of Ka-Zar's treehouse, and the Cortland's seaplane
• Ka-Zar takes a gunshot to the head, and must be transported to Manhattan from the Savage Land
• The artwork is actually really good

Low Points

• No Spider-Man, but the beginning of a story arc that will eventually lead to him showing up

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: Shanna says, "You think all have to do...

• How exactly does one survive a gunshot head to the head, let alone a flight from the Savage Land to Manhattan?

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