(November 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
1973-08-07
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.

[Horror in the City] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rich Buckler ? (see notes); John Romita ? (see notes); Ernie Colón ? (see notes)
Inks
Ernie Chan (see notes); John Romita (see notes)
Colors
?
Letters
Morrie Kuramoto

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I swore I'd love you, honey--til the day I die--...
Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Colón pencil and Romita ink credits as attributed from Heritage Auctions and the auctioning of the original art, https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/ernie-colon-and-john-romita-s… (retrieved 10 August 2019).

Nick Caputo doubts the Colon pencil credit noting that his earliest credited work for Marvel was in the late 1980s (per Bails' Who's Who). Nick suspects the cover pencils are by Rich Buckler, possibly from a Romita rough. Inks are indicative of Chan's concurrent work on Conan. Romita redrew the creature.

Not Flesh and Blood! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler
Pencils
Myron Fass
Inks
Myron Fass
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[A-616]
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
A man hires a mechanic to build a robot to murder his business partner.
Reprints

Detour! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Myron Fass (signed)
Inks
Myron Fass (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[A-510]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man at a train crossing is killed and places a curse on motorists every year that one more person must die there too.
Reprints

Horror in the City (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Werner Roth
Inks
Werner Roth ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[A-631]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man meets a woman who tells him of a war beneath the Earth between the Clabs and the Paladorns. He is separated from her but she returns later, reveals herself as a Paladorn, and kills him in order to silence him.
Reprints

The Black Gloves (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ben Brown (signed)
Inks
David Gantz (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
A-706
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man wears black gloves in order to cover up the fanged mouths centered in his palms.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The ending is changed from the original. One panel is edited and space is made in the final panel to explain that Mr. Dobbs survives when the police arrive.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Horror in the City]
  2. 1. Not Flesh and Blood!
  3. 2. Detour!
  4. 3. Horror in the City
  5. 4. The Black Gloves
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Paul Lefebvre
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore