Tomb of Darkness
#22
(September 1976)
Marvel,
1974 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-06-01
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860218509
- Editing
- Archie Goodwin (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #131.
My Brother, This Monster!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Michael Netzer (signed as Mike Nasser); John Romita (see notes)
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos (signed); John Romita (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Romita alterations on the monster per Nick Caputo (April 1, 2006).
I Created Grutan!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
- Pencils
- Don Heck
- Inks
- Don Heck
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [T-665]
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Characters
- Albert Poole; Hank Pym (originally named Blake)
- Synopsis
- A short and bitter scientist is obsessed with building a powerful giant robot in which to live for the rest of his life. He traps himself inside without the means to activate the robot, living out his life on the food which he'd stored inside.
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #75 (June 1960) [as "I Created Grutan!"]
-
Indexer Notes
Title was changed so as not to confuse readers with the better-known Marvel character Hulk (information per Marc Toy, 2006). Blake was renamed Pym here.
Brother of a Monster
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Christopher Rule
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [C-131]
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two brothers, a deformed one and handsome one, are situated near the occurrence of murders. People suspect the deformed one as the culprit, but it turns out to be the other one.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #113 (April 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
pencil credit and job number from atlastales.com
The Madman's Music
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Morisi
- Inks
- Pete Morisi
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [9822]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- After being injured in a fight, a clarinet player finds that he can play better than before, but when he tries to show his agent, the other man can't hear him playing at all. He learns that his music can now only be heard by the dead.
- Reprints
- from Venus (Marvel, 1948 series) #19 (April 1952)
-
They Made Me a Ghost!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Mike Sekowsky
- Inks
- Bill Walton ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [B-913]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Satan
- Synopsis
- A condemned man makes a deal with Satan to be made a ghost so that he can haunt the judge responsible for his sentence. As a ghost, he finds himself unable to affect the physical world and the wind eventually blows him out into the void of space where he drifts for eternity.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #16 (March 1953)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
My Brother, This Monster!
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1.
I Created Grutan!
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2.
Brother of a Monster
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3.
The Madman's Music
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4.
They Made Me a Ghost!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Katy Hayhurst
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Banks S. Robinson
- Tony R. Rose
- Mark Semich
- Jim Stangas
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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