(June [July] 1975)

Seaboard, 1975 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1975-05-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Atlas Comics
Brand
Atlas Comics [separate triangular A]
Editing
Larry Lieber

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #118.

Cover date is July, but no month is in the indicia at all. The three other Atlas comics advertised in The Comic Reader #118 to arrive on the same day all have a July cover date.

Night of the Living Gargoyle! (Table of Contents)

Tarantula / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Rich Buckler
Inks
Frank Giacoia ?; Rich Buckler ?
Colors
?
Letters
Alan Kupperberg ?
Genre
horror-suspense; superhero
Characters
The Tarantula [Count Eugene Lycosa XI]
Cover Thumbnail for Weird Suspense (Seaboard, 1975 series) #3
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Mind/Matter = Murder! (Table of Contents: 1)

Tarantula / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script
Gary Friedrich
Pencils
Pat Boyette; Rich Buckler (splash)
Inks
Pat Boyette; Rich Buckler ? (splash)
Colors
?
Letters
Pat Boyette; Alan Kupperberg ? (splash)
Genre
horror-suspense; superhero
Characters
The Tarantula [Count Eugene Lycosa XI] (two page origin recap); Crispin (Lycosa's servant, Joseph's brother, first appearance); Natalie Walters (Lycosa's secretary, first appearance); Abdul Rashad (death); homeless man (death); Rak-Nora (the Spider Priestess, death, in flashback); the first Tarantula [Count Eugene Lycosa I] (in flashback)
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Indexer Notes

Title should be read as "Mind /(over) Matter = Murder!"

This story establishes that the modern day Tarantula is named Count Eugene Lycosa XI and that it has been three years since he first experienced the curse.

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

Mail Web / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Larry Lieber ?
Pencils
Alan Kupperberg ?; Frank Thorne; Pablo Marcos (illustrations)
Inks
Alan Kupperberg ?; Frank Thorne; Pablo Marcos (illustrations)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Scott Gibson, Hans Enid, Curtin Hoffman and Henry Safdieh. Includes a house ad for Phoenix # 3 and Ironjaw # 3.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Night of the Living Gargoyle!
    Tarantula
  2. 1. Mind/Matter = Murder!
    Tarantula
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Mail Web
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