Giant-Size Werewolf #2

(October 1974)

The Frankenstein Monster Meets Werewolf by Night (Table of Contents: 1)

Werewolf by Night / comic story / 30 pages (report information)

Script

Doug Moench

Pencils

Don Perlin

Inks

Vince Colletta

Colors

Petra Goldberg (credited as P. Goldberg)

Letters

Dave Hunt

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is a sordid alley, stuffed with gloom and squalid filth.

Genre

horror-suspense; superhero

Characters

Werewolf by Night [Jack Russell]; Frankenstein Monster; Danton Vayla (first appearance; death); Brotherhood of Baal (first appearance; destruction); Lissa Russell; Buck Cowan; Jimmy; Gimpy; Acolyte Croft

Synopsis

The Frankenstein Monster travels to California to see if Danton Vayla can help him. At the same time, the Brotherhood of Baal, run by Vayla, kidnaps Lissa Russell and plans to sacrifice her in a magical ritual. Jack Russell, while searching for his sister changes into the Werewolf by Night and attacks the Frankenstein Monster.

Reprints

• in L'Insolite (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #2 (mars 1977) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Essential Monster of Frankenstein (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2004) [black and white]
• in Essential Werewolf by Night (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2007) [black and white]
• in Monster of Frankenstein (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Werewolf by Night Omnibus (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Werewolf by Night: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2018)
• in Werewolf by Night - Classic Collection (Panini Deutschland, 2020 series) #1 ([2020])

Keywords

monsters

Indexer Notes

This story is broken into three chapters. Chapter one is titled Prisoners of Flesh!, Chapter two is title To Host the Beast, and chapter three is titled The Flesh of Satan's Hate!

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Mail It to Tigra / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Don Perlin (illustrations)

Inks

Vince Colletta (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Tigra; Werewolf by Night [Jack Russell]

Indexer Notes

includes letters by Peter B. Gillis, Dave Stevens and Ms. Phyg Armstrong.

Mind Over Matter (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Benulis

Inks

Jack Abel

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Stan Lee (original editor)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Gordon Langley; Allen

Synopsis

A man has been trained by Indian mystics to be able to make objects disappear, merely by doubting their existence. When he tries to tell his friend of his new powers, the friend is skeptical until he sees a demonstration. The friend goes into a panic, and asks the man what would happen if he doubted all of existence?

Reprints

• from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #16 (March 1953)

The Ape Man (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko

Inks

Steve Ditko

Colors

?

Letters

Artie Simek

Editing

Stan Lee (original editor)

Job Number

V-173

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

"Salty" Gruner; Ape Man

Synopsis

A prisoner plans to escape, and hopes that the legend of an ape man in the jungle around his prison will deter pursuit. Instead, he finds that the ape man is real and pursues him. The Ape Man transfers the gypsy curse which originally transformed him into an ape onto the prisoner.

Reprints

• from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #85 (June 1961)

The Barefoot Man (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Robert Q. Sale

Inks

Robert Q. Sale

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Stan Lee (original editor)

Characters

Pablo

Synopsis

Pablo, a poor Mexican, longs for a pair of boots to ease the pains in his bare feet. He finally resorts to mugging a man, and stealing his boots. Soon, Federal agents arrest him, as they have been tracking the distinctive boot-prints of a notorious killer, and Pablo will hang for the crimes he did not commit.

Reprints

• from Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #29 (February (March) 1955)

The Werewolf of Wilmach! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony DiPreta

Inks

Tony DiPreta

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

Stan Lee (original editor)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Fang; Kessel; Karl; Heineman

Synopsis

Several deaths have a village in a panic over the werewolf prowling the moon-lit streets. Two ne'er-do-wells plan a robbery while the town is gripped in fear, but the two should know that there is something to fear that is worse than being caught.

Reprints

• from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #17 (September 1952) [erroneously attributed to Astonishing Tales #17]

Indexer Notes

art credits from AtlasTales.com.