(February 1975)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-12-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Monster Group
- Printer
- Printed in the United States of America
- Editing
- Don McGregor (editor)
Is She Human or Beast?
Tigra / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Vicente Segrelles (painting); Vicente Segrelles (signed as
VSEGRELLES Short) (sourced) (painting) - Inks
- Vicente Segrelles (signed as VSEGRELLES Short) (sourced) (painting)
- Colors
- Vicente Segrelles (signed as VSEGRELLES Short) (sourced) (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Aeskla [Ratso]; Surisha
- Reprints
-
in Monster Monthly (Marvel UK, 1982 series) #1 -
in Essential Monster of Frankenstein (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 (2004) [black and white] - in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2012)
- in Monster of Frankenstein (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Tigra: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
List of contributors is included on contents page and erroneously credits the cover to JAD (José Antonio Domingo Bernabéu). The original art is heavily modified and cropped. The cropping excluded Vicente Segrelles' signature from the published cover.
They Might Be Monsters
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- In the Congo, explorer Paul Du Chaillu sees a gorilla for the first time.
- Reprints
- from Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (February 1974)
-
Indexer Notes
Frontispiece.
[no title indexed]
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik (illustration); Tony DeZuniga (illustration)
- Inks
- Val Mayerik (illustration); Tony DeZuniga (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Readers Unleashed / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik (illustration); Pat Broderick (illustration)
- Inks
- Val Mayerik (illustration); Al Milgrom (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Frankenstein Monster; Man-Thing
Indexer Notes
Masthead illustrated with the Frankenstein Monster. Letters from Stephen Friedt, Scott Hughes, Robert W. Shurtz, Peter Gillis and John R. Luciano.
The Marvel Bullpen Page goes Black and White and Read All Over
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik (illustration)
- Inks
- Val Mayerik (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Editorial page includes a checklist of magazines on-sale.
The 11:10 to Murder
Frankenstein Monster / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Doug Moench
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik
- Inks
- Val Mayerik
- Letters
- Tom Orzechowski (pages 1-14); John Costanza (pages 15-19)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Softly, silent snow whispers to the ground...
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Frankenstein Monster; Jimmy (death)
- Synopsis
- The Frankenstein Monster tries to stop assassins trying to kill the President on a train.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- monsters
Beauty's Vengeance
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Juhng-Sea
- Synopsis
- Juhng-Sea frees a trapped mermaid and extracts a promise to return in a year.
- Reprints
The Serenity Stealers
Tigra / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Tony Isabella (plot); Chris Claremont (script)
- Pencils
- Tony DeZuniga
- Inks
- Tony DeZuniga
- Letters
- Marcos Pelayos ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once upon a time -- a long, long time ago -- there was youn woman named Greer Nelson.
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Tigra [Greer Nelson] (also in flashback); Richard Diaz (death); Consuelo Diaz; Aeskla [Ratso] (death); Joanne Tumolo; Brock Hunter (death); Surisha (death); Louis Edwards; Mr. Crane
- Synopsis
- Surisha uses Aeskla to feed her the life force that she needs to exist. Tigra breaks up the unholy alliance.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Tigra appearance between Giant-Size Creatures (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 and Marvel Chillers (Marvel, 1975 series) #3.
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Val Mayerik (illustration)
- Inks
- Val Mayerik (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Coming attractions for the next issue.
[The Title Alone Should Be Enough...]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano (painting)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
House ad for the Haunt of Horror (Marvel, 1974 series) #5 (includes cover).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Is She Human or Beast?
Tigra -
1.
They Might Be Monsters
-
2.
[no title indexed]
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Readers Unleashed -
4.
The Marvel Bullpen Page goes Black and White and Read All Over
-
5.
The 11:10 to Murder
Frankenstein Monster -
6.
Beauty's Vengeance
-
7.
The Serenity Stealers
Tigra -
8.
[no title indexed]
-
9.
[The Title Alone Should Be Enough...]
-
10.
[Conan as You Like Him]
Conan
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- Mark Boyer
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Jay Flash
- Glenn MacKay
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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