Crypt of Shadows #9

(March 1974)

The Haunting of Sleepy Hollow! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Dick Ayers

Inks

Ernie Bache

Colors

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Letters

Dick Ayers

Editing

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number

[E-523]

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man tries to get rid of his rival by frightening him as the Headless Horseman, but the other guy has the same idea and succeeds in getting his rival committed to an asylum. The real Headless Horseman shows up to punish him.

Reprints

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #22 (July 1954) [as The Haunting of Sleepy Hollow!]
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #43 ([Mars 1975]) [original title: The Horror of Sleepy Hollow]

Indexer Notes

Title changed due likely to Comics Code restrictions.

Tomorrow! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Mort Lawrence (signed)

Inks

Mort Lawrence (signed)

Colors

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Letters

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Editing

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number

[G-515]

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A man is offered a job by a strange organization that gives him glasses that can see 24 hours into the future, and he must report all accidents he sees so that they can be averted. When he fails to report one because of a personal grudge, he nearly seals his own doom.

Reprints

• from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #138 (September 1955)
• in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #43 ([Mars 1975])

Half-Man! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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Editing

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number

[E-469]

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

Androids are subject to discrimination until a war with space aliens breaks out and then they gain some measure of equality. One of them even plans to marry a human girl if he survives the conflict, but when the war is won, the androids find the old barriers have been put back in place. When the android sees his intended sweetheart on the street, she pretends not to know him.

Reprints

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #22 (July 1954)

Christmas Chronicles and Yuletide Yucks — and a Partridge in a Pear Tree! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

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Beyond Death! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Chuck Winter

Inks

Chuck Winter

Colors

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Letters

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Editing

Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number

[E-149]

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

In order to prevent a man from marrying his daughter, the father tries to inject him with a serum that will turn him to stone. The intended victim succeeds in disarming the father and climbs up to the man's room to give him a taste of his own medicine. But, unknown to him, the daughter has exchanged places with her father because he complained of a draft, and he turns her to stone.

Reprints

• from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #30 (May 1954)
• in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #39 ([octobre 1974]) [N&B [B&W]], #44 ([mars 1975]) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

In the original publication, the story was signed "C. A. Winter."

Blockbustin' Bullpen Bonus Page (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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