Thrilling Adventure Stories #1

(February 1975)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ernie Colón

Inks

Ernie Colón

Letters

typeset

Characters

Tiger-Man [Dr. Lancaster Hill]; Major Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia); Prince Feisal

Indexer Notes

Table of Contents, credits, and indicia. Images all from cover.

Tigerman and the Flesh Peddlers (Table of Contents: 2)

Tiger-Man / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

John Albano

Pencils

Ernie Colón

Inks

Ernie Colón

Letters

Ernie Colón ?

Genre

crime; superhero

Characters

Tigerman [Dr. Lancaster Hill] (first appearance); Lieutenant Garel; Suzy Ritter; Mr. Hecht (death)

Synopsis

Tiger-Man stumbles onto a white slavery ring.

Reprints

• in Blade of Fear (Gredown, 1976 series) #3 (1977)

Keywords

piranha; prostitution

Indexer Notes

Pilot for the four-color comic book. The hero's name is spelled "Tigerman" in the story, but is "Tiger-Man" in the table of Contents and also "Tiger-Man" in his color comic.

The Sting of Death! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

John Albano

Pencils

Leo Summers

Inks

Leo Summers

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; jungle

Characters

Erich (death); "Kid" (death); The Professor ("Whiskers", death); fat man (death); young woman; fat rich woman; cannibals

Synopsis

Six people survive a plane crash only to find that they are trapped by savages.

Keywords

Africa; cannibals; plane crash

Kromag the Killer (Table of Contents: 4)

Kromag / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Gabriel Levy; Jack Sparling

Pencils

Jack Sparling

Inks

Jack Sparling

Letters

John Duffy

Genre

adventure

Characters

Kromag (first appearance); Nean (Kromag's mate); Bekmin (Kromag and Nean's young son, named in issue #2); Kromag's brother; two other females

Synopsis

Kromag battles a mastodon, a snake, a tyrannosaur and a sabre-tooth tiger to keep his people safe.

Keywords

cavemen; mastodon; pre-history; sabre-tooth tiger; tyrannosaurus rex

Films of Alistair MacLean (Table of Contents: 5)

text article / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ric Meyers

Pencils

? (photographs)

Inks

? (photographs)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Article on movies based on Alistair Maclean novels includes photos from various films.

Lawrence of Arabia (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Rovin

Pencils

Frank Thorne

Inks

Frank Thorne

Letters

Frank Thorne ?

Genre

adventure; historical

Characters

Major Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia); Prince Feisal; Burton Price; Abdul; Gasim (in flashback); Ali (in flashback)

Synopsis

Mr. Price travels to the Middle East to do a story on Lawrence of Arabia.

Keywords

biplane; Middle East

Atlas Comics The New House of Ideas!! (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

Doc Savage (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photographs)

Inks

? (photographs)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Doc Savage (photo of Ron Ely); Long Tom (photo of Eldon Quick); Monk (photo of Mike Miller)

Indexer Notes

Movie stills from the George Pal "Doc Savage" movie starring Ron Ely.

Escape from Nine by 1 (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Russ Heath

Pencils

Russ Heath

Inks

Russ Heath

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

Genre

war

Characters

Banowitz (death); Gruppenführer ("Group Leader")

Synopsis

A soldier escapes from a German prisoner of war camp.

Reprints

• in Creepy Almanaque (Toutain Editor, 1979 series) #1985 ([diciembre 1984])
• in Joyas de Creepy (Toutain Editor, 1986 series) #[4] - Las magistrales historias de horror de Russ Heath (1987)

Keywords

POW; World War II

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Devilina / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)