Zombie
#5
(May 1974)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-02-26
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Monster Group
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor); Marv Wolfman (associate editor)
Issue Notes
No number on cover.
[no title indexed]
The Zombie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Earl Norem (credited) (painting)
- Inks
- Earl Norem (credited) (painting)
- Colors
- Earl Norem (credited) (painting)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Zombie [Simon Garth]
- Reprints
in 
[no title indexed]
The Zombie / illustration / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Pablo Marcos (signed as Pablo Marcos)
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos (signed as Pablo Marcos)
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Zombie [Simon Garth]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Inside front and back cover.
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations); ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations); ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- The Zombie [Simon Garth]
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An eye for an eye.
Palace of Black Magic!
The Zombie / comic story / 22 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You stand in a dark, windswept field...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Phillip Bliss (death); Mr. Six (villain); The Zombie [Simon Garth]; Jeanette; Steve Bergen; Gene Gretch; Andre; Papa Shorty (death); Robert (death); Lois; Mitch
- Synopsis
- Papa Shorty receives the Amulet of Damballah and uses it to summon the zombie.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Amulet of Damballah; black magic; Bourbon Street; martial arts; zombie
[no title indexed]
Mails to the Zombie / letters page / 2 pages
- Characters
- The Zombie [Simon Garth]; Brother Voodoo [Jericho Drumm; Daniel Drumm]
Indexer Notes
Letters from Steve Scheibner; Randy Sutherland, Brian Earl Brown, Bill Haney, Dave Pruden, M.S., and Art Stampler.
White Zombie: Faithful Unto Death
text article / 6 pages
- Script
- Doug Moench
- Pencils
- ? (photographs)
- Inks
- ? (photographs)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Text article about the movie "White Zombie".
Who Walks with a Zombie?
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Russ Heath
- Inks
- Russ Heath
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Madness lurked in the steamy jungle!
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jane Long (corpse); Ken Hardin; Dr. Peoule (death)
- Synopsis
- Ken travels to an island in the West Indies to find that his girlfriend has been turned into a zombie.
- Reprints
-
from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #27 (February 1954) [black and white] - in Essential Tales of the Zombie (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
-
- Keywords
- zombie
With the Dawn Comes Death (Part 2)
text story / 5 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations); ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations); ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Brother Voodoo Lives Again...
Brother Voodoo / text article / 3 pages
- Script
- Doug Moench
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Brother Voodoo [Jericho Drumm; Daniel Drumm]
- Reprints
Voodoo War!
comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, Latrou, you Haitian cattle rustler!
- Genre
- horror-suspense; western-frontier
- Characters
- Mike Fairbanks; Ramon Latrou; Luana; Mama DeSuis; Amy Fairbanks (death)
- Synopsis
- Two ranchers use voodoo to try to drive each other from the land.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- cattle ranch; voodoo
Death's Bleak Birth!
comic story / 9 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You sure this is the place, Maynard?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Professor Wade Cochran (death); Maynard (death); Creach (death); Mary Cochran (death)
- Synopsis
- Professor Cochran has the secret to cheating death.
- Reprints
- in Tales of the Zombie Annual (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (Summer 1975) which is reprinted
-
in Horror (Dečje novine, 1986 series) #18 (Septembar 1988.) - in Essential Tales of the Zombie (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
-
- Keywords
- voodoo; zombie
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Zombie -
1.
[no title indexed]
The Zombie -
2.
[no title indexed]
-
3.
["An eye for an eye."]
-
4.
Palace of Black Magic!
The Zombie -
5.
[no title indexed]
Mails to the Zombie -
6.
White Zombie: Faithful Unto Death
-
7.
Who Walks with a Zombie?
-
8.
With the Dawn Comes Death (Part 2)
-
9.
Brother Voodoo Lives Again...
Brother Voodoo -
10.
Voodoo War!
-
11.
Death's Bleak Birth!
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12.
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