(August 1974)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-05-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
The Strange Machine
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- [7929]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The leader of the Spanish Inquisition intends to do away with a rival by presenting a strange machine that will prove he is in league with the Devil. He climbs inside to investigate how the machine works, but fails to anticipate that his rival was building a device that would automatically implement every torture yet devised.
- Reprints
-
from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #100 (April 1951) [one page cut]
-
Indexer Notes
Reprint is mistakenly identified as from Mystic #26.
A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- [C-833]
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A dentist treats his patients without painkiller in order to save money. When he catches a brain surgeon making a pass at his wife, he suffers one of his fainting spells. When he comes to, the brain surgeon has him strapped to a table and offers to remove the clot from his brain causing the fainting spells...without ether.
- Reprints
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #117 (August 1953)
-
The Man in Black
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- George Tuska
- Inks
- George Tuska
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [C-289]
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A Communist agent mistakes his contact for the man he is supposed to kill.
- Reprints
- from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #2 (April 1953)
-
The Little Pests
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Manny Stallman
- Inks
- Manny Stallman ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- [A-706]
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- After a husband disposes of his murdered wife's body in the pond, his new girlfriend complains so much to the county about the mosquitoes around the house that they drain it.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #12 (October 1952)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Don't Go in the Cellar!
-
1.
The Strange Machine
-
2.
A Little Pain Never Hurt Anybody
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3.
The Man in Black
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4.
The Little Pests
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Jochen G.
- Merlin Haas
- Steve Jenner
- Roger Reus
- Tony R. Rose
- Rick Schindler
- Jim Van Dore
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