Vault of Evil
#18
(April 1975)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- 8 times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1975-01-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Len Wein (editor); Irene Vartanoff (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #114.
A Coffin for Carlos
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Inks
- Abe Simon (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [B-198]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man visits a convicted killer in jail and offers to sell him a pill for five hundred dollars that will make him appear dead in order to cheat the electric chair. Once he has been buried, he will dig him up. The killer agrees, but has no money, so he extorts it out of his brother. He takes the pill and it works, but instead of taking him to the morgue, the police wheel him into a group of medical students with scalpels. It turns out his brother sold his body to dissection study for five hundred dollars.
- Reprints
-
from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #110 (December 1952)
-
No Place to Hide!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks
- John Forte
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [K-816]
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A thief steals a chemical compound from an old man which sends him into the past.
- Reprints
- from Adventure into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #5 (January 1957)
-
What World Is This?
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [L-347]
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A thief hiding from his pursuers makes a wish that time would stand still. He thinks his wish has come true when he enters a town where the inhabitants appear to be immobile, but suddenly realizes that he has stumbled upon a test site just before the atom bomb is being dropped there.
- Reprints
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1957)
-
Mass Murder
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [L-899]
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A scientist makes use of a duplicator ray to make multiple copies of himself in order to work on a scientific problem, then later destroys the copies. An acquaintance prosecutes him for mass murder. The story ends by asking the reader how they would decide the case.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #10 (June 1957)
-
The Perfect Hide-Out
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Bolle
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [M-286]
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A masked thief takes refuge in the home of a frail old woman in a wheelchair who is helpless to turn him in to the authorities - or so he thinks.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (August 1957)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Deadly Edge!
-
1.
A Coffin for Carlos
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2.
No Place to Hide!
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3.
What World Is This?
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4.
Mass Murder
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5.
The Perfect Hide-Out
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Michael Hoskin
- Matthew Thompson
- Jim Van Dore
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