(February 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1972-11-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #90, October 1972.
The Shambler from the Stars!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Tom Palmer (signed)
- Colors
- Tom Palmer ?
- Letters
- John Costanza; Gaspar Saladino (logo)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Keywords
- Cthulhu Mythos; monsters
Indexer Notes
New logo designed by Gaspar Saladino as revealed on the letters page.
The Shambler from the Stars!
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Ron Goulart (adaptation); Robert Bloch (priginal story)
- Pencils
- Jim Starlin
- Inks
- Tom Palmer
- Colors
- Tom Palmer ?
- Letters
- Jean Simek (uncredited)
- Job Number
- 1114-Z
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Robert; Bronson; Ludvig Prinn (flashback); Shambler from the Stars
- Synopsis
- A writer becomes obsessed with an ancient forbidden book of magic, and murders its owner to steal it. However, translation of the book releases a loathsome evil from beyond space and time.
- Reprints
-
in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #17 -
in Dracula (Arédit-Artima, 1974 series) #8 (4ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed] -
in Masters of Terror (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (July 1975)
-
- Keywords
- Cthulhu Mythos; De Vermis Mysteriis; monsters; Necronomicon; New Hampshire; Portsmouth
Indexer Notes
original story Copyright © 1945 by Robert Bloch
Revenge From the Rhine!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense; war
- Synopsis
- A German pilot breaks the armistice to kill one more French flier and attain a high military honor, but the testimony of his own men prevents the honor. He murders those who testified against him, and years later all his victims return to kill him in return.
- Reprints
- in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #14
-
in Dracula (Svenska serier, 1972 series) #10/[1973] ([18 juli] 1973) - in Eclipso (Arédit-Artima, 1968 series) #57 (1er trimestre 1976) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
-
- Keywords
- Blue Max; World War I
[no title indexed]
Journey into the Mail-Box! / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
letters submitted by Gary Kimber; Jesse Prosise; Brian Earl Brown; George Arnold
Genius
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- C-807
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- An intelligent man grows tired among life on Earth as mere humans are like children to him when he receives a telepathic message from what appears to be a beautiful woman on Saturn imploring him to build a rocket to journey to her. He does so, but when he arrives she removes her mask to kiss him, revealing herself to be a hideous hag.
- Reprints
- from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #4 (June 1953)
-
- Keywords
- Saturn; telepathy
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Shambler from the Stars!
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1.
The Shambler from the Stars!
-
2.
Revenge From the Rhine!
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3.
On Sale Now!
The Invisible Man -
4.
[no title indexed]
Journey into the Mail-Box! -
5.
Genius
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- Darrel McCann
- Tony R. Rose
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