Volume: 1
Price: 0.75 USD
Pages: 76
On-sale Date: 1973-03-20
Editing: Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #94, February 1973. Publication month based on advertisements in concurrent series.

[no title indexed]

table of contents / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Pablo Marcos (illustration)
Ralph Reese (illustration)
Inks:
Pablo Marcos (illustration)
Ralph Reese (illustration)
Letters:
typeset

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Now, now, Wolfie my dear fellow... calm down!

The Man Who Cried Werewolf!

comic story / 10 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Charles; Violet; Lisa (death); Doctor Meroux
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Adapted from Robert Bloch's "The Man Who Cried Wolf".

Ghosties and Ghoulies and Things that go Bump in the Brain...

text article / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Well! Now that the editorial's over and done with...

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hello out there, all you warm-hearted, warm-blooded souls!

Vampire Tale

comic story / 5 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Doug Wildey (signed)
Inks:
Doug Wildey (signed)
Letters:
?
Editing:
Stan Lee (original editor)

  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Sorry — can't talk now!
Reprints (1)

Skulls In the Stars

Solomon Kane / comic story / 10 pages


Indexer Notes

Adapted from Robert E. Howard's short story.

Portrait of the Werewolf as A Young Man: The Odyssey of Larry Talbot

text article / 4 pages

Script:
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Still with us, after all that vericose verbiage...

One Foot in the Grave

comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks:
Tony DiPreta (signed)
Letters:
?
Editing:
Stan Lee (original editor)

  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:'One foot in the grave,' eh?

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Letters: This looks far more like mid-50s Oda (compare his work for Simon and Kirby, and early Mad Magazine). Definitely NOT Sam Rosen, whose letter forms throughout his career are less round. (Compare the Rosen lettering in the following story).

[no title indexed]

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
? (photograph)
Inks:
? (photograph)
Letters:
typeset

  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Awright, you guys — just bog ogg, willya?
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