(April 1975)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-01-28
- 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 (credited) (editor); Irene Vartanoff (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #114.
Don't Answer the Phone!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gray Morrow
- Inks
- Gray Morrow
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [L-875]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man's murdered wife continues to phone him from the grave until he confesses to the police.
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #10 (June 1957)
-
The Nightmare Men
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mac L. Pakula (signed)
- Inks
- Mac L. Pakula (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [L-888]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A tyrant's sleep is disturbed every night by men who approach him with the word 'justice' emblazoned upon armbands. These men intend to drag him off, but he awakens before they do so. When the tyrant forces a doctor to treat him, his guards find him missing the following morning.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #10 (June 1957)
-
Four Empty Chairs!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marvin Stein
- Inks
- Marvin Stein
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [L-424]
- Genre
- horror-suspense; science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man's family disappears one evening and a stranger explains to the town sheriff that they are from another dimension waiting for a lightning bolt of sufficient strength to send them all back to their home dimension. The sheriff thinks the story is nonsense but suddenly a powerful lightning bolt flashes and both the stranger and the man have disappeared as well.
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1957)
-
Peter and the Puppet!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Benulis (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Abel (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A ventriloquist's dummy is actually alive and becomes a rival for his girlfriend's affections.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #110 (December 1952)
-
When the Walls Close In!
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An escaped war criminal feels claustrophobia until his guilt makes him confess.
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #54 (October 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Story miscredited as from Astonishing #52.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Nightmare Men!
-
1.
Don't Answer the Phone!
-
2.
The Nightmare Men
-
3.
Four Empty Chairs!
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4.
Peter and the Puppet!
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5.
When the Walls Close In!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Merlin Haas
- Michael Hoskin
- Steve Jenner
- Paul Lefebvre
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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