(September 1973)

Marvel, 1973 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
8 times a year
On-sale Date
1973-06-12
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 #97, May 1973.

[My Friend the Ghost] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rich Buckler ?
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
Morrie Kuramoto
Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (1 April 2006)

Cover Thumbnail for Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5
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My Friend the Ghost (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks
Tony DiPreta
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)
Job Number
[B-731]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A doctor and his friend cook up a plot to acquire the family fortune by the doctor declaring the man dead and then he pretends to return as a ghost and scare the remaining members to death. But the doctor wants all the money and betrays the man by injecting poison into him rather than a drug to make him appear dead, and so he realizes at the end of the story that he actually is a ghost. He kills the doctor.
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On the Spot (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks
Paul Reinman
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)
Job Number
B-763
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
An actor kills the man who directs the spotlight on stage when he finds out his girlfriend is seeing him. He gets condemned to the chair and escapes, but the spotlight pins him to the wall and the cops open fire. Only after his lifeless body slumps to the ground do the cops realize that there is no one at the spotlight.
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The Diet of Donald Moore (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sam Kweskin (signed)
Inks
Sam Kweskin
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)
Job Number
[B-612]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man uses a chlorophyll spray as a health tonic until he develops plant-like qualities.
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What Happened to Mister Snively? (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils
Russ Heath (signed)
Inks
Russ Heath
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)
Job Number
[B-799]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
During an atomic war. grocer Snively hoards food in his bomb shelter. However, he starves to death after the bombs fall because he forgot to bring a can opener.
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [My Friend the Ghost]
  2. 1. My Friend the Ghost
  3. 2. On the Spot
  4. 3. The Diet of Donald Moore
  5. 4. What Happened to Mister Snively?
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Mark Semich
  • Jim Van Dore
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