Beware
#5
(November 1973)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-08-07
- 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 The Comic Reader #99.
My Son, the Monster!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ron Wilson (sourced); John Romita (sourced) (alterations)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito (sourced); John Romita (sourced) (alterations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- Genre
- horror-suspense
The Old Lady's Son
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Inks
- Vern Henkel (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- 9210
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Lily Wells; Mark Mason; Mrs. Mason
- Synopsis
- A gold digging woman becomes the victim of an old lady's vampire son.
- Reprints
-
from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #6 (January 1952) -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #40 (Septembre 1974)
-
- Keywords
- Dartmouth; England
The Horrible House!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- D-880
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mr. Belding
- Synopsis
- A wealthy man dreams of an atom bomb wrecking his house and burying him alive, so he goes into the country where he thinks he is safe and has a house built, but the house is built on unsafe ground and sinks, burying him alive anyway.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #29 (March 1954)
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #40 (octobre 1974)
-
Bong!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- C-57
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Hugo Walther; Katrine Lukas; Eric Brawne
- Synopsis
- A man resolves to murder his rival for the affections of a beautiful girl, but ends up killing himself by falling into the bell-maker's molten vat. As the man hated noise, the ironic twist of the story is that his soul becomes cast into the noisiest bell in the town.
- Reprints
- from Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #19 (April 1953)
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #57 (Février 1976)
-
- Keywords
- Hungary
You Can Only Die Once!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Manny Stallman
- Inks
- Manny Stallman ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- 9411
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- George; Satan
- Synopsis
- A man tries to kill himself over and over again but only succeeds in producing pain and mutilation, not the longed for oblivion. A friend of his informs him that he is already dead, for he committed suicide a year ago, and has been sent to Hell where all suicides reside.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #8 (February 1952)
-
- Keywords
- Hell
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
My Son, the Monster!
-
1.
The Old Lady's Son
-
2.
The Horrible House!
-
3.
Bong!
-
4.
You Can Only Die Once!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Frode Dreier
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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