(August 1973)

Marvel, 1973 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.20 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
8 times a year
On-sale Date
1973-05-15
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 (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #96, April 1973.

The Face that Follows! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Frank Brunner (signed)
Inks
Frank Brunner (signed)
Colors
Frank Brunner
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Brunner colors confirmed per biblio in The Brunner Mystique.

The Old Mill (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
Gene Colan
Colors
?
Letters
Sam Rosen
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[A-284]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A mill hand disposes of his tyrannical boss by grinding him up.
Reprints

The Face That Followed (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Al Luster (signed)
Inks
Al Luster
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
[D-780]
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
An escaped convict vows to haunt a hermit who has murdered him after ascertaining where his stolen loot was buried. When the police arrive at the hermit's hut they gun him down because, unknown to him, his face is now that of the man he killed.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Newman is credited with the script in the Marvel Masterworks reprint of this story.

Who Is the Master? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inks
Robert Q. Sale
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
L-130
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man thinks that dogs are reading his mind and preparing to replace man as the masters.
Reprints

The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Romita (signed)
Inks
John Romita
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
J-242
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A cruel sea captain is cursed until he can find a crew that will serve under him willingly and respect him but the leopard seems unable to change his spots.
Reprints

Till Death Do Us Part (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Vic Carrabotta (signed)
Inks
Vic Carrabotta
Colors
?
Letters
?
Editing
Stan Lee (original story)

Job Number
D-711
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man finally works up the nerve to strangle his cheating wife but an atomic war breaks out, and the two of them find their bodies fused together by atomic radiation.
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Face that Follows!
  2. 1. The Old Mill
  3. 2. The Face That Followed
  4. 3. Who Is the Master?
  5. 4. The Mystery of the Doomed Derelict!
  6. 5. Till Death Do Us Part
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Dwayne Best
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Bjorn Wallin