Marvel Team-Up 1972 #16 - 6.0 - $9.00

Basil Elks accidentally finds the Kree alpha stone. When a night watchmen shoots the stone, Basil is bathed in it's energies and becomes the Basilisk. Captain Marvel and Spider-Man race Basilisk to the omega stone. Captain Marvel gets trapped within the stone and disappears.

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #100.

• Two of the World's Mightiest Heroes, vs. a Powerful Supernatural! - Art credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (13 January 2005). Original indexer credited the pencils to Gil Kane and the inks to John Romita.
• Beware the Basilisk My Son! - Continued next issue.
• Mail it to Team-Up - Letters from readers - David Lofvers, Corby Keep, Jerry Eisen and Mark Schlanger.
• December 1973 - Marvel Comics checklist for comics dated December 1973. Obituary for Syd Shores, who passed away on June 3, 1973. There is no Stan Lee's Soapbox column this month.