Chamber of Darkness (Marvel, 1969 series) #4

Volume: 1

Price: 0.15 USD

Pages: 36

On-sale Date: 1970-01-20

Editing: Stan Lee (credited) (editor)

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And the Monster Man Came Walking -- Walking --

(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:	Marie Severin (signed) [as 7EV])
Inks:	Bill Everett (signed) [as 7EV])
Colors:	Marie Severin ?
Letters:	Sam Rosen

Genre:horror-suspense

Reprints (3)

in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
in Conan le barbare : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2019 series) #1970-1971 (août 2019)
in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 - The Coming of Conan (2020)

Issue Data

Publisher's Brand: Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Printer: World Color Press, Inc., Sparta Illinois 62286

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from 1970 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.

The Monster

(Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:	Jack Kirby
Pencils:	Jack Kirby
Inks:	John Verpoorten
Colors:	John Verpoorten ?
Letters:	Artie Simek

Genre:horror-suspense

Synopsis:: A wealthy, ugly, and lonely man is believed to be a monster by the ignorant people of his village.; in Le Monstre de Frankenstein (Editions Héritage, 1973 series) #10
in Doomsday (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #13 ([February 1974])
in Giant-Size Chillers (Marvel, 1975 series) #3 (August 1975)
in El Enterrador (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1970 series) #10 (October 1976)
in Monsters: The Marvel Monsterbus by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby (Marvel, 2017 series) #2 (2017)

The Man Who Owned the World

(Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:	Denny O'Neil Tom Sutton (Plot)
Pencils:	Tom Sutton
Inks:	Tom Sutton
Colors:	?
Letters:	Jean Simek

Characters:

Tom Sutton (host)

Synopsis:: A greedy billionaire crashes the world economy to finance a scientist to send him into the future, where a horrible surprise awaits him.; in Fantomen (Semic, 1958 series) #8/1971
in Hallucinations (Arédit-Artima, 1969 series) #20 (novembre 1972) [Title changed and only Sutton's credit retained]
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #40 (Septembre 1974)
in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (April 1976)
in El Enterrador (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1970 series) #10 (October 1976)

The Sword and the Sorcerers!

(Table of Contents: 3)

Starr the Slayer / comic story / 7 pages

Script:	Roy Thomas
Pencils:	Barry Windsor-Smith
Inks:	Barry Windsor-Smith
Colors:	?
Letters:	Jean Simek

Genre:fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery

Characters:

Starr the Slayer; Trull; Morro; Len Carson

Synopsis:: Novelist Len Carson plans to write one final story in his popular sword and sorcery series to kill off the protagonist, Starr the Slayer, but his creation comes to life and kills him in self-defense.; in Conan (Condor, 1979 series) #3
in Fantomen (Semic, 1958 series) #14/1972 (1972)
in Savage Tales (K. G. Murray, 1972 series) #2 ([1972] ?)
in Conan the Barbarian (Marvel, 1970 series) #16 (July 1972)
which is reprinted
in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #10 (4ème trimestre 1977) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
in Conan de barbaar (Oberon, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
in Conan el Bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #75 ([noviembre 1985])
in Conan Le Barbare (Semic S.A., 1990 series) #32 (octobre 1992)
in Conan Saga (Comic Art, 1993 series) #3 (Febbraio 1994)
in Conan el bárbaro (Planeta DeAgostini, 1998 series) #16 (Septiembre 1998)
in Comixtrips (Jürgen Maier, 1975 series) #2 (März 1976)
in El Enterrador (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1970 series) #10 (October 1976)
in L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. (Editions du Fromage, 1976 series) #7 (2e trimestre 1978)
in Conan Saga (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 (October 1987)
in Essential Conan (Marvel, 2000 series) #1 (July 2000) [black and white]
in Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas (Marvel, 2006 series) (2006)
in The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #2 (May 2010)
in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
in Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
in Conan le barbare : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2019 series) #1970-1971 (août 2019)
in Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 - The Coming of Conan (2020)
in Marvel Creator Collection (Fantagraphics, 2025 series) #1 - Back to the Savage Land: Barry Windsor-Smith at Marvel Vol. 1 (November 2025)

[no title indexed]

(Table of Contents: 4)

Chaff from the Chamber! / letters page / 1 page

Script:	Roy Thomas ?
Letters:	typeset

Indexer Notes

letters submitted by James Shull, Bill Peckmann, Lester Yocum, Steve Wright

Editing

Table of Contents ToC

Table of Contents

And the Monster Man Came Walking -- Walking -- (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

The Monster (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages

The Man Who Owned the World (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages

The Sword and the Sorcerers! (Table of Contents: 3)

Starr the Slayer / comic story / 7 pages

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Chaff from the Chamber! / letters page / 1 page

Indexer Notes

And the Monster Man Came Walking -- Walking --

(Table of Contents)

The Monster

(Table of Contents: 1)

The Man Who Owned the World

(Table of Contents: 2)

The Sword and the Sorcerers!

(Table of Contents: 3)

[no title indexed]

(Table of Contents: 4)