Tomb of Darkness
#21
(July 1976)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- Marv Wolfman (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
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The Day before Doomsday!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A US scientist defects to the USSR and builds a large dome to protect their leaders from retaliation, allowing a massive strike on the US. The dome is really a pod to launch them into space.
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #99 (August 1962)
-
Indexer Notes
reprint is mistakenly identified as from Journey into Mystery #99
Five Fingers
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Hodge (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Hodge ? (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [F-461]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A pickpocket fashions a wax hand to use as a distraction, but it causes his death when it comes to life.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #131 (February 1955)
-
You Can't Kill Me!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Harry Anderson
- Inks
- Harry Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [B-886]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A scientist develops a method of reattaching severed heads, but when his beloved daughter makes him promise to reattach the head of an executed killer she wishes to marry, he puts the man's head back on upside down to save her from herself.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #16 (March 1953)
-
Captain America and the Red Skull
Captain America; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]
- Synopsis
- The Red Skull wants to take over the United States before the bicentennial and uses the Cosmic Cube to transport Captain America to him. Captain America foils his plans when he gives the Cosmic Cube a Hostess Twinkie and it stops obeying the Red Skull.
- Keywords
- Cosmic Cube
Eagle-Eye G.I. Joe Meets the Intruder
G.I. Joe / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- G.I. Joe; Intruder; Commander
- Synopsis
- G.I. Joe can see the Intruder in the jungle with his keen vision. He tries to stop the Intruder but is caught in a bear hug instead. He flips the Intruder off and he escapes into the jungle.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["No! If you press that button -- you'll destroy the world!"]
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1.
The Day before Doomsday!
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2.
Five Fingers
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3.
You Can't Kill Me!
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4.
Captain America and the Red Skull
Captain America; Hostess Twinkies -
5.
Eagle-Eye G.I. Joe Meets the Intruder
G.I. Joe
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