Volume: 1
Price: 34.99 USD
Pages: 186
On-sale Date: 2025-04-29
Editing: Michael Dean (credited as Dr. Michael Dean) (editor); Gary Groth (credited) (supervising editor); Dana Collins (credited) (designer); Paul Baresh (credited) (restoration); Ben Horak (credited) (restoration); Jonathan Barli (credited as Jon Barli) (restoration)
Cover Thumbnail for Lost Marvels (Fantagraphics, 2025 series) #1 - Tower of Shadows Edit Cover
Cover Gallery 

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Jim Steranko (top third, panels 1-3)
George Tuska (center left panel)
Neal Adams (center right panel)
Wally Wood (bottom left panel)
Barry Windsor-Smith (bottom right panel)
Inks:
Jim Steranko (top third, panels 1-3)
George Tuska (center left panel)
Dan Adkins (center right panel)
Wally Wood (bottom left panel)
Vince Colletta (bottom right panel)
Colors:
Jim Steranko ? (top third, panels 1-3)
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

Panels reprinted from:
from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #1 - "At the Stroke of Midnight!", page 2, panels 1-3,
from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #3 - "Midnight in the Wax Museum!", page 4, panel 4,
from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #2 - "One Hungers", page 2, panel 1,
from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #7 - "Of Swords and Sorcery!", page 3, panel 4, and
from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #7 - "The Scream of Things", page 7, last panel.

Issue Data

[Endpapers]
(Table of Contents: 1)

illustration / 2 pages

Pencils:
Inks:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The story the endpaper illustration is from actually isn't reprinted in this volume. Panel is from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 Series) #3 - "The Terrible Old Man!", page 6, panel 3.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 2)

blank page(s) / 1 page

Reprints (1)

Tower of Shadows
(Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 3 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

The art is from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 Series) #1 - "At the Stroke of Midnight!", page 7, panel 2. It's used twice, and neither with the original color.

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

illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Panel is from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 Series) #1 - "At the Stroke of Midnight!", page 1, panel 1.

Contents
(Table of Contents: 5)

table of contents / 3 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

A Tour of the Tower
(Table of Contents: 6)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 11 pages

Script:
Michael Dean (credited as Dr. Michael Dean)
Pencils:
Gil Kane (credited)
Gary Groth (credited) (photographs)
Mike Catron (credited as James Michael Catron) (photographs)
Inks:
Gary Groth (credited) (photographs)
Mike Catron (credited as James Michael Catron) (photographs)
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:non-fiction; horror-suspense
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Reprints a panel from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 series) #1 - "At the Stroke of Midnight!", page 1, panel 2, a cover thumbnail for Creatures on the Loose (Marvel, 1971 series) #16, and an unused Steranko cover for Tower of Shadows #1.

At the Stroke of Midnight!
(Table of Contents: 7)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
John Romita (credited, signed)
Inks:
John Romita (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (and logo)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

At the Stroke of Midnight!
(Table of Contents: 8)

Digger / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Jim Steranko (credited)
Pencils:
Jim Steranko (credited)
Inks:
Jim Steranko (credited)
Colors:
Jim Steranko (credited)
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Digger (host, introduction)
Reprints (1)

From Beyond the Brink!
(Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Johnny Craig (credited)
Pencils:
Johnny Craig (credited)
John Romita (alterations)
Inks:
Johnny Craig (credited)
John Romita (alterations)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Digger
Reprints (1)

A Time to Die!
(Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils:
John Buscema (credited)
Inks:
Don Heck (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Digger
Reprints (1)

Batty Bulletins to Bewilder, Bewitch, and Bedazzle You!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 11)

Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 12)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

The Menace of... the Hungry One!
(Table of Contents: 13)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
John Romita (credited) (signed as Romita)
Inks:
John Romita ? (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

Witch Hunt!
(Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Roy Thomas (credited)
Pencils:
Don Heck (credited)
Inks:
Dan Adkins (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Digger (host)
Reprints (1)

Look Out, Wyatt... Automation's Gonna Get Your Job!
(Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Gary Friedrich (credited)
Pencils:
John Buscema (credited)
Inks:
John Verpoorten (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Digger (host)
Reprints (1)

One Hungers
(Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Neal Adams (credited)
Pencils:
Neal Adams (credited)
Inks:
Dan Adkins (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Headstone P. Gravely (host)
Reprints (1)

It Happens at Midnight in the Wax Museum!
(Table of Contents: 17)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Marie Severin (credited)
Inks:
Frank Giacoia (credited)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

The Moving Finger Writhes...!
(Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Headstone P. Gravely (host)
Reprints (1)

Midnight in the Wax Museum!
(Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Gary Friedrich (host)
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 20)

Tomes from the Tower! / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Ron Jamieson, Jim Allan and Kevin Morse.

Within the Witching Circle!
(Table of Contents: 21)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Marie Severin (credited)
Inks:
Herb Trimpe (credited)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

Evil Is a Baaaaad Scene!!
(Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Allyn Brodsky (credited)
Pencils:
Don Heck (credited)
Inks:
Don Heck (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Don Heck (host)
Synopsis:
A mad magician conjures up a demon, but a cat unexpectedly interferes with the spell, leaving the demon free to attack the magician and the innocent onlookers.
Reprints (1)

One Little Indian!
(Table of Contents: 23)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Marv Wolfman (credited)
Pencils:
Gene Colan (credited)
Inks:
Dan Adkins (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Gene Colan (host)
Reprints (1)

To Sneak... Perchance to Scream!
(Table of Contents: 24)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Tom Sutton (credited) (Plot)
Pencils:
Tom Sutton (credited)
Inks:
Tom Sutton (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Jean Simek (credited as Jean Izzo)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Tom Sutton (host)
Reprints (1)

I Created... the Demon That Stalks Hollywood!
(Table of Contents: 25)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Pencils:
Marie Severin (credited) (signed as 7)
Inks:
Bill Everett (credited) (signed as EV)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Jason Roland
Reprints (1)

The Demon That Devoured Hollywood!
(Table of Contents: 26)

comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Roy Thomas (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Dan Adkins (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:190-Z
Characters:
Barry Smith (host); Jason Roland; Charlie; Stella Houston
Synopsis:
A b-list actor named Jason Roland strikes a deal with an agent for Satan to help him with his movie career. The dwarfish man helps him by applying real looking monster makeup to him that allows him to take Hollywood by storm as a famous monster movie actor. When Roland reneges on his deal, the dwarfish man makes it so he can't take the makeup off, and he's trapped in his monster makeup forever.
Reprints (1)

Flight into Fear!
(Table of Contents: 27)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Wally Wood (credited)
Pencils:
Wally Wood (credited)
Inks:
Wally Wood (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
  • Job Number:164
Characters:
Wally Wood (host); Johnny; Marilyn; The Old One; Princess Yrill; Xzar (death)
Synopsis:
A crippled young man falls asleep on a stone gargoyle at a park. The gargoyle comes to life and takes him to a medieval world in another dimension, where he not only isn't crippled anymore, but is a giant. He helps the little people from an evil demon named Xzar. When he destroys the demon with an enchanted sword, the grateful people have a gargoyle return him to the real world. He wakes up thinking it was all a dream, until he realizes he's not crippled anymore and can walk.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Story is told by a caricature of Wally Wood.

Time Out!
(Table of Contents: 28)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils:
Syd Shores (credited)
Inks:
Syd Shores (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:111B
Characters:
Syd Shores (host); Richard Mason; Dianna Mason
Synopsis:
A couple whose marriage is falling apart are trying to get to the woman's uncle's house as he lies dying so they can get his inheritance. Driving through a storm, they end up having to find shelter. They enter a creepy old abandoned house where they are locked in over night. They survive the night and find that their romance has rekindled. When they are able to leave the next morning, they find out that seven years have passed. The woman feels her now dead uncle (who dabbled in the black arts) was responsible for the ordeal so she can save her marriage.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Syd Shores introduces the story.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 29)

Tomes from the Tower! / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

LOC from readers Jaimes Markham, Mike Rotblatt, Nancy Donahue and Art Cooper.

Pray for... the Man in the Rat Hole!
(Table of Contents: 30)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Marie Severin (credited) (signed as SEV.)
Inks:
Marie Severin (credited) (signed as SEV.)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Signature in matchbook cover.

The Ghost-Beast!
(Table of Contents: 31)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Wally Wood (credited)
Pencils:
Wally Wood (credited)
Inks:
Wally Wood (credited)
Colors:
Letters:
Jean Simek (credited as Jean Izzo)
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
  • Job Number:245-Z
Characters:
Beowulf
Synopsis:
The legendary Beowulf and his men save a fair maiden and her kingdom from a shadowy demon called the Beast-God who can make men go mad simply by looking at them. After the monster is defeated, Beowulf reveals his true intentions; he wants to conquer the kingdom. When the ghost of the Beast-God returns, the princess tricks Beowulf into putting on a poison ring to fight the monster. This causes Beowulf to die, and while his ghost defeats the ghost of the Beast-God, he is now doomed to walk the Earth as a ghost forever.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 32)

History of the Comics / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 33)

Hobby Coin Co. Coins / advertisement / 0.5 page

Contact!
(Table of Contents: 34)

comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Tom Sutton (credited, signed)
Pencils:
Tom Sutton (credited, signed)
Inks:
Tom Sutton (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:303-Z
Characters:
Howard (death); Fal Ton; Fan Ton
Synopsis:
A man makes contact with a race of aliens and instructs them to come directly to where his seaside laboratory is. They make contact but the aliens are so huge they step on his house crushing him. Thinking they have been had since they don't see anyone around, they leave.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

All you see are the aliens feet. They are so huge that a human is the size of an ant compared to them.

The Scream from Beyond!
(Table of Contents: 35)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Steve Skeates (credited)
Pencils:
Gene Colan (credited)
Inks:
Dan Adkins (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Sam Rosen (credited)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:
Gene Colan (host)
Synopsis:
A man causes real life accidents so he can record the sounds of chaos and destruction that he tape records. He plans to sell these tapes to record companies. While he is listening to the recorded noises, he notices a strange scream in the background that he never recalled when he was recording the sounds. One night while he is damaging train tracks so he can cause a train wreck and record the sounds, he gets trapped on the tracks and gets run over by the train. As he screams he realizes that it was his screams he had heard on his earlier recordings!
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Gene Colan narrates the story.

Titano! The Monster That Time Forgot!!
(Table of Contents: 36)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Jack Kirby (credited)
Marie Severin (credited) (alterations)
Inks:
Steve Ditko (credited)
Marie Severin (alterations)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

The Scream of Things
(Table of Contents: 37)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Allyn Brodsky (credited)
Pencils:
Inks:
Vince Colletta (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Jean Simek (credited as Jean Izzo)
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:
A professor visits a British town to look into the Wollaston Curse. The curse was inflicted onto the grandson of the noble George Wollaston who had murdered a gypsy girl. The girl's mother cursed the family bloodline of the Wollastons where anyone in the vicinity of the Wollaston manor with hate in their heart will be destroyed by the curse. The professor visits the ruins of the manor with a woman he met in town. The woman was planning on killing and robbing the professor, but because she had hate in her heart, the curse destroys her causing her to become a part of the manor's architecture.
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 38)

Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 0.4 page

[Marvelmania Super-Hero Posters]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 39)

Marvelmania / advertisement / 0.6 page

Of Swords and Sorcery!
(Table of Contents: 40)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Wally Wood (credited)
Pencils:
Wally Wood (credited)
Inks:
Wally Wood (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
Artie Simek (credited)
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
Synopsis:
Vandal the barbarian, Pip the elf, and Trolkin the cursed dwarf (who looks like a lizard), save a kingdom from an evil demonic wizard named Arak who has the ability to turn any being into stone with his eye beams. Arak is defeated when Trolkin causes his own eye beams to reflect back at him, causing him to turn into stone and shatter when he hits the ground.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Arak's minions include a giant bird, a giant spider, and a horde of humanoids conjoined together into a huge mass.

They Lurk Within the Tomb!
(Table of Contents: 41)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Pencils:
Bernie Wrightson (credited)
Inks:
Bernie Wrightson (credited)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:fantasy-supernatural
Characters:
Hamand
Reprints (1)

Sanctuary!
(Table of Contents: 42)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:sword and sorcery
Characters:
Hamand; Abarac
Synopsis:
After Hamand the king conquers the ancient kingdom of Cybernia, he enters an ancient Cybernian tomb to claim the crown of the dead ancient druid king. The king comes back to life and follows Hamand to his castle. Masquerading as Hamand's wizard Abarac, he tricks Hamand into sealing himself inside the castle tower where he will be trapped for the rest of his life.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The druid king causes Hamand to have nightmares of various monsters attacking him from different parts of the castle. These include demons coming up from under the floors, and bird riding demons attacking him from the roof of the castle. This is what convinces Hamand to have the tower built and binded by magic so he can't be attacked from any opening.

Pickman's Model
(Table of Contents: 43)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
Bernie Wrightson (credited, signed)
Marie Severin (layout)
Inks:
Bernie Wrightson (credited, signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

The Hungry One
(Table of Contents: 44)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page

Pencils:
John Romita (credited) (signed as Romita)
Inks:
John Romita ? (credited)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
Reprints (1)

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 45)

illustration / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Panel is from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 Series) #1 - "At the Stroke of Midnight!", page 7, panel 5.

Creators
(Table of Contents: 46)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 7 pages

Script:
Michael Dean (credited as Dr. Michael Dean)
Pencils:
various
Inks:
various
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Creator biographies. The pages are illustrated with panels from the stories reprinted in this volume.

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 47)

blank page(s) / 1 page

[Endpapers]
(Table of Contents: 48)

illustration / 2 pages

Pencils:
Inks:
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

The story the endpaper illustration is from actually isn't reprinted in this volume. Panel is from Tower of Shadows (Marvel, 1969 Series) #3 - "The Terrible Old Man!", page 6, panel 3.

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 49)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
  2. [Endpapers]
  3. [no title indexed]
  4. Tower of Shadows
  5. [no title indexed]
  6. Contents
  7. A Tour of the Tower
  8. At the Stroke of Midnight!
  9. At the Stroke of Midnight!
    Digger
  10. From Beyond the Brink!
  11. A Time to Die!
  12. Batty Bulletins to Bewilder, Bewitch, and Bedazzle You!
    Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Mighty Marvel Checklist; Stan's Soapbox
  13. ["Hold it, literature lovers!"]
  14. The Menace of... the Hungry One!
  15. Witch Hunt!
  16. Look Out, Wyatt... Automation's Gonna Get Your Job!
  17. One Hungers
  18. It Happens at Midnight in the Wax Museum!
  19. The Moving Finger Writhes...!
  20. Midnight in the Wax Museum!
  21. [no title indexed]
    Tomes from the Tower!
  22. Within the Witching Circle!
  23. Evil Is a Baaaaad Scene!!
  24. One Little Indian!
  25. To Sneak... Perchance to Scream!
  26. I Created... the Demon That Stalks Hollywood!
  27. The Demon That Devoured Hollywood!
  28. Flight into Fear!
  29. Time Out!
  30. [no title indexed]
    Tomes from the Tower!
  31. Pray for... the Man in the Rat Hole!
  32. The Ghost-Beast!
  33. [no title indexed]
    History of the Comics
  34. [no title indexed]
    Hobby Coin Co. Coins
  35. Contact!
  36. The Scream from Beyond!
  37. Titano! The Monster That Time Forgot!!
  38. The Scream of Things
  39. [no title indexed]
    Mighty Marvel Checklist
  40. [Marvelmania Super-Hero Posters]
    Marvelmania
  41. Of Swords and Sorcery!
  42. They Lurk Within the Tomb!
  43. Sanctuary!
  44. Pickman's Model
  45. The Hungry One
  46. [no title indexed]
  47. Creators
  48. [no title indexed]
  49. [Endpapers]
  50. ["Tower of Shadows is a lost, never-before-collected Marvel title, ..."]
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