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Issue: Chamber of Chills #5
Publication Date: July 1973
 
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Is Variant Variant: military advertising
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 04/10/1973
Volume: 1
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #95, March 1973.
This variant contains an additional 4 pages of advertising on glossy paper, stapled in as if a second set of 'cover' pages immediately after the covers. Sequences are:
"Be a Mennen Millionaire" - 2 page comic-format ad for a sweepstakes from Mennen shaving products, immediately after the front cover.
"Old & Heavy Gold" - 1 page ad for 8-track or cassette tapes from E-C Tape Service, first of two ad pages at back.
"Staying in? Getting out?" - 1-page ad for financial services from Pentagon Federal Credit Union, last of two ad pages at back.
Issue also includes a 4-page Mark Jewelers advertising insert stapled into the comic.
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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
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The Devil's Dowry!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
The Devil's Dowry!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
A military officer forces an old sorcerer to help him stage a coup and overthrow the government. He then imprisons the old man and forces the man's daughter to marry him, but he doesn't know that his new wife is actually a hungry demon in human form.
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Diet-Sized Droplets of Dubious Distinction! (Or, Half a Bullpen Page in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Foot!)

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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typeset
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The Ultimate Fan Club!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
Subject Matter
FOOM
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Advertisement for a subscription to FOOM describing what is included (a 22" x 28" poster, a membership card, a fistful of stick-ons, full year's subscription to FOOM magazine and a special surprise envelope that everything comes in).
Haunt and Run!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Subject Matter
horror
A drunken driver kills a hitchhiker along a highway, and her ghost then appears whenever he tries to take an exit off the road.
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Miscellaneous
3
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It Can't Miss

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Subject Matter
horror
Frankie Arno plans to escape paying for his crimes by trading places with a look-alike, but just when he assumes his new identity, it turns out that his double is about to be committed to an insane asylum.
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Miscellaneous
4
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A Tomb by Any Other Name!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
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Subject Matter
horror
Roger Devens is fleeing from the police but doesn't realize he is caught up in a weird hallucination before he dies.
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Miscellaneous
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