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Issue: Crypt of Shadows #1
Publication Date: January 1973
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Issues: #1 of 21 Issues (22 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Midnight on Black Mountain!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gil Kane (signed)
Inker(s): Tom Palmer (signed)
Colorist(s): Tom Palmer ?
Letterer(s): Danny Crespi ?; Dave Hunt ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #1 published January 2011
as Crypt of Shadows #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Midnight on Black Mountain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Mort Lawrence (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Lawrence (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A woman with a terminal illness meets a man who tricks her into becoming a witch.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #17 published August 1954
was Midnight on Black Mountain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: E-538
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Where Monsters Dwell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Basil Wolverton (signed); ? (see notes)
Inker(s): Basil Wolverton; ? (see notes)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Basil Wolverton
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A scientist finds a way to exile his enemies to another dimension, but one manages to escape and change places with the scientist.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Terror #7 published December 1951
was Where Monsters Dwell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: 8773
Disclose Notes: Wolverton's splash panel was rejected and replaced by one drawn by an unidentified artist, according to an article in Basil Wolverton's Gateway to Horror #1 (Dark Horse, 1988), which reprinted this story. Speculation as to the artist includes Carl Hubbell, Vern Henkel and Carl Burgos.
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Irrelevant Info and Inane Items, Illustrated and Inscribed by an Infinite Number of Monkeys!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee; ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items, Marvelous Marvel Mini-Items, Mighty Marvel Checklist, house ad for Supernatural Thrillers #2.
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Don't Look!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jay Scott Pike (signed)
Inker(s): Jay Scott Pike (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A madman offers to give an attorney a magic mirror that reveals how people will look in the future but there is a secret terrible cost.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #39 published November 1974
as Ne regardez pas! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #2 published August 1952
was Don't Look! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: A-537
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The Scarecrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Inker(s): Russ Heath (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Scrawny Tim Blake buys a magic potion to build up his muscles, which is very successful at first, until it sends his body out of control.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCapitaine America #39 published November 1974
as L'épouvantail [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #2 published August 1952
was The Scarecrow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: A-500

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