Black Magic
#4
(June-July 1974)
DC,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-03-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Joe Simon (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #104.
The Girl the Earth Ate Up
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Ben Oda; typeset
- Job Number
- JS-91
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Sarah; Crane
- Reprints
-
in The Jack Kirby Omnibus (DC, 2011 series) #2 ([July] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Simon re-used the rejected artwork for Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v1#1 [1] for this cover.
Color credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
The Girl the Earth Ate Up!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Roussos
- Inks
- George Roussos
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Joe Simon (original editor); Jack Kirby (original editor)
- Job Number
- JS-89
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mary Higgens; Mary's mother; Old Min
- Synopsis
- Mary Higgens goes to Old Min for help to stop her daughter from partying all night long, and is given a pair of magic scissors.
- Reprints
- from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v1#6 [6] (August-September 1951)
-
in Haunted Tales (K. G. Murray, 1973 series) #25 ([February 1977])
-
His Father's Footsteps!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mort Meskin
- Inks
- Mort Meskin
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Joe Simon (original editor); Jack Kirby (original editor)
- Job Number
- JS-88
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Karl Werner; Hilda Werner; Gustave Werner; Frederick; Frau Hoff
- Synopsis
- Gustave tries to prevent his son Karl from joining the tradition of the Werner family, where every man becomes the hangman.
- Reprints
- from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v1#1 [1] (October-November 1950)
-
The Man with a Vision
text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Joe Simon (original editor); Jack Kirby (original editor)
- Job Number
- JS-85
- Reprints
- from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#12 (18) (November 1952)
-
Last Second of Life!
comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Simon; Jack Kirby
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Joe Simon (original editor); Jack Kirby (original editor)
- Job Number
- JS-90
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Matthew Crane; George Berger; Dr. Herbert Michaels; Joshua Benton; Fred Saunders; Sarah Russell
- Synopsis
- Matthew Crane discovers the secret of the afterlife from the last words of a dying girl, and it drives him insane.
- Reprints
- from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v1#1 [1] (October-November 1950)
- in Weird Mystery Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #3 ([October 1977])
- in The Jack Kirby Omnibus (DC, 2011 series) #2 ([July] 2013)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Girl the Earth Ate Up
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1.
The Girl the Earth Ate Up!
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2.
His Father's Footsteps!
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3.
The Man with a Vision
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4.
Last Second of Life!
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