Vault of Evil
#12
(August 1974)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1974-05-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A.
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
Locked In!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Powell
- Inks
- Bob Powell
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [E-059]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A woman trails after her husband for twenty years because, after they murdered a family, he skipped out on her with the loot. She kills Bill, but then the spirits appear and keep her prisoner in a filthy hovel, just like all those hermits she interviewed for twenty years while searching for her husband.
- Reprints
-
from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #11 (May 1954)
-
Close Shave!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- [B-989]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor.
- Reprints
- from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #14 (April 1953)
-
The Hangman's Noose
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Winiarski
- Inks
- Ed Winiarski
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [A-825]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A seller of inferior rope hits his business partner with a crowbar and thinks he has killed him, so he fashions one of the ropes into a hangman's noose and props the body into it so it appears as a suicide.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #12 (October 1952)
-
Only One to a Customer
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sy Moskowitz
- Inks
- Sy Moskowitz
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [F-590]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- After a pitchman abuses the hospitality of tiny alien visitors by attempting to sell them on the street for profit, they take him back to their planet where he is sold as a toy mechanical giant.
- Reprints
- from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #29 (February (March) 1955)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Midnight -- in the Haunted Mansion!
-
1.
Locked In!
-
2.
Close Shave!
-
3.
The Hangman's Noose
-
4.
Only One to a Customer
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Jochen G.
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mark Semich
- Jim Van Dore
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