(October 1974)

Marvel, 1973 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1974-07-02
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 Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #108, July 1974.
This issue has variants:

The Man Who Owned a Ghost? (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Larry Lieber ?
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi ?

Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Possible Lieber pencils per Nick Caputo, August 2012.

The Man Who Owned a Ghost! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Everett ?
Pencils
Bill Everett
Inks
Bill Everett
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Everett
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[9491]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A dead man summons a ghost to haunt his wife's house so her guests will leave and he can kill her, but she confesses to him that he is already dead because she killed him the previous evening and he realizes that the ghost he has summoned is his own.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Reprint mistakenly attributed as from Astonishing Tales #10.

Was He Just Seeing Things? (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Manny Stallman
Inks
Manny Stallman
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[H-459]
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
Aliens uses illusion to disguise their home planet from bothersome intruders.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Reprint mistakenly attributed as from Astonishing Tales #46.

Homicide (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill Savage ?
Inks
Ross Andru ?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[C-382]
Genre
crime; horror-suspense
Synopsis
Jim Lane kills a bothersome tramp, then tries to frame his neighbor, an inadvertent witness, for the murder.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Reprint is mistakenly attributed as from Mystic #12.

The Man in the Crazy Maze (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee ? (plot); Larry Lieber ? (script)
Pencils
Jack Kirby
Inks
Dick Ayers
Colors
?
Letters
Terry Szenics
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Genre
crime; horror-suspense
Characters
Charlie Burke; Mr. Johnson; Fate
Synopsis
A carnival owner cons patrons with an impossible maze, and kills a reporter that might expose him. He is then trapped in another maze with only one exit, into hell.
Reprints

Wonderously Witty Words from a Woomful of Wombats! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Man Who Owned a Ghost?
  2. 1. The Man Who Owned a Ghost!
  3. 2. Was He Just Seeing Things?
  4. 3. Homicide
  5. 4. The Man in the Crazy Maze
  6. 5. Wonderously Witty Words from a Woomful of Wombats!
    Bullpen Bulletins
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Chris Boyko
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Andrés Jiménez
  • James Ludwig
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Mark Semich
  • Jim Van Dore