(October 1974)

Marvel, 1973 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1974-07-23
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #108, July 1974.
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

War Is Hell / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gil Kane
Inks
Ernie Chan
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi

Genre
horror-suspense; war
Reprints
Keywords
World War II

Indexer Notes

Chan inks per Nick Caputo, March 2015. Previous indexer credited Ralph Reese.

War Is Hell! (Table of Contents: 1)

War Is Hell / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script
Tony Isabella (credited) (plot); Chris Claremont (credited) (script); Steve Gerber (dialogue assist, uncredited); Roy Thomas (credited) (see notes)
Pencils
Dick Ayers (credited)
Inks
Frank Springer (credited)
Colors
Phil Rachelson (credited as P. Rachelson)
Letters
Charlotte Jetter (credited as C. Jetter); Gaspar Saladino (splash)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
My name is John Kowalski.
Genre
horror-suspense; war
Characters
John Kowalski (Introduction; Origin); Death; The Scavenger (Villain; Introduction; Death)
Synopsis
John Kowalski, a disgraced United States Marine is killed in during Germany's invasion of Poland to start World War II.
Reprints
Keywords
curse; ghost; Poland; World War II

Indexer Notes

Splash page credits read: "Series conceived and plotted by Tony Isabella, with the welcome aid of Roy Thomas." Steve Gerber is uncredited in the issue, however the letter column in issue 11 says: “Chris got more than a fair share of compliments on his story, but he wants to make sure Steve Gerber gets credit for some last minute copy changes in the dialogue, which-while not of major proportions-served to add even more to the impact of the script. So take your bows, gentlemen-both of you.”

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Marvel-Hero Stick-Ons; Our Way Studios / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Make Your Own Hell! (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
Tony Isabella (credited)
Pencils
Pablo Marcos (illustrations); ?
Inks
Pablo Marcos (ilustrations); ?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset; ?

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Wonderously Witty Words from a Woomful of Wombats! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    War Is Hell
  2. 1. War Is Hell!
    War Is Hell
  3. 2. ["Get all 18 for only $2.50!"]
    Marvel-Hero Stick-Ons; Our Way Studios
  4. 3. Make Your Own Hell!
  5. 4. ["The Zombie has risen from the grave!"]
  6. 5. Wonderously Witty Words from a Woomful of Wombats!
    Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Jenner
  • Todd Kvamme
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jason Sacks
  • Steven Tice
  • Jim Van Dore