Zombie
#7
(September 1974)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-07-09
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Monster Group
- Editing
- Tony Isabella (editor); Marv Wolfman (consulting editor); Roy Thomas (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #108, July 1974.
Testament of Blood
The Zombie / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Earl Norem (credited) (painting)
- Inks
- Earl Norem (credited) (painting)
- Colors
- Earl Norem (credited) (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Zombie [Simon Garth]
- Reprints
- Keywords
- zombie
[no title indexed]
The Zombie / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Bayou Mansion
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
A very brief overview of the Simon Garth / Zombie story, with a full-page illustration of Simon Garth's mansion.
The Blood-Testament of Brian Collier
The Zombie / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Steve Gerber (pp.1, 32); Doug Moench (pp.2-31)
- Pencils
- Pablo Marcos (signed as Pablo Marcos) (pp.1, 32); Alfredo Alcala (pp.2-31)
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos (signed as Pablo Marcos) (pp.1, 32); Alfredo Alcala (pp.2-31)
- Letters
- Alfredo Alcala; ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Prologue: For a day and night you have wandered...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Zombie [Simon Garth]; Layla; Brian Collier (dead); James Collier; Melissa Collier; Lamont Collier; Detective Stuart Weller; Agatha (death); Franklin (death); Jason (death); Christine Collier; Clarissa Gibbons (death); Robert Hughes; Gideon Hawkins (death); Ed; Jerome Ralston (death)
- Synopsis
- The Zombie stumbles upon a house in the swamp, where the elderly man Brian Collier has just been murdered. Police is called to the scene, and all family members automatically become suspects. According to Collier's will, his fortune will be divided equally amongst the members of the family. Soon, someone begins killing off relatives one by one, in order to reduce the number of beneficiaries. James Collier discovers that his uncle's lawyer Jerome Ralston and his cousin Jason Collier are the culprits. James is saved by the Zombie.
- Reprints
-
in Gravmannen (Red Clown, 1974 series) #2/1975 (1975) -
in Zombie (André Guerber, 1976 series) #2 (1976) -
in Tales of Terror (Portman Distribution, 1978 series) #2 (1978) -
in Horror (Dečje novine, 1986 series) #12 -
in Essential Tales of the Zombie (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) - in Marvel Horror Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019), (2019), (2019)
-
- Keywords
- alligator; Amulet of Damballah; swamp; voodoo; zombie
Indexer Notes
First and last pages are a prologue and epilogue.
[no title indexed]
Mails to the Zombie / letters page / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is the seventh worm-ridden issue of Tales of the Zombie, right?
Indexer Notes
Letters from M. Rosenkave, J. Renel Burden, Patricia Ann La Cour, Tom Niva, and Sam J. Croffi.
Voodoo in the Park
text article / 3 pages
- Script
- Kenneth Dreyfack
- Pencils
- Dan Green (signed as Dan Green)
- Inks
- Dan Green (signed as Dan Green)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- in Essential Tales of the Zombie (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- from The Village Voice, 1973.
-
Haiti's Walking Dead
comic story / 2 pages
Inside Inside Voodoo
text article / 4 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- ? (illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
A book review.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The 'Twenties were a violent age.
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Brief introduction to following story, including full-page photograph.
Page 50.
A Second Chance to Die
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Brad Sloan (death); Lura Harrow; warden; doctor; hunters
- Synopsis
- Brad Sloan is about to be executed for murder when he is saved from the gallows by the victim's widow, Lura Harrow. She brings him to an island where she uses voodoo to give him eternal life before she sicks manhunters on him. Although wounded and shot, Sloan simply cannot die and is in agony. Suddenly, through magic, he is transported back to the gallows. And this time, he dies for real.
- Reprints
- in Gravmannen (Red Clown, 1974 series) #2/1975 (1975)
- in Tales of the Zombie Annual (Marvel, 1975 series) #1 (Summer 1975) which is reprinted
- in Horror (Dečje novine, 1986 series) #18 (Septembar 1988.)
- in Zombie (André Guerber, 1976 series) #2 (1976)
- in Tales of Terror (Portman Distribution, 1978 series) #2 (1978)
- in Essential Tales of the Zombie (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
-
- Keywords
- execution; hanging; voodoo
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Testament of Blood
The Zombie -
1.
[no title indexed]
-
2.
["The Bayou Mansion"]
The Zombie -
3.
The Blood-Testament of Brian Collier
The Zombie -
4.
Missed Any Monsters Lately?
Marvel Magazine Group -
5.
["This is the seventh worm-ridden issue of Tales of the Zombie, right?"]
Mails to the Zombie -
6.
Voodoo in the Park
-
7.
Haiti's Walking Dead
-
8.
Inside Inside Voodoo
-
9.
["The 'Twenties were a violent age."]
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10.
A Second Chance to Die
-
11.
A Non-paid Commercial That Will Drive You CRAZY
Crazy Magazine -
12.
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