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Issue: Vampire Tales #3
Publication Date: February 1974
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/04/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (editor); Marv Wolfman (associate editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Interior Page
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Splash page
 
Assets1
 
 
Night of the Demon Cult

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
horror, superhero
Morbius; Amanda Saint; Katabolik
Reprinting
FlagEssential Marvel Horror #1 published January 2006
as Vampire Tales #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Subject Matter
This is the city-Los Angeles, California.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Kiss of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
occult
Satana; Harry Gotham (death); Brenner; Ruth Cummins (death); Doctor Darkos Edge (death)
Satan worshippers! My father must be with me tonight.
A preacher tries to have Satana killed.
Reprinting
FlagVampire Tales Annual #1 published January 1975
as The Kiss of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagEssential Marvel Horror #1 published January 2006
as The Kiss of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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10
Satana next appears in Haunt of Horror (Marvel, 1974 series) #2.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Vampire Mails
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Letters from Jeff Young, V.F. Richards, and Brian Earl Brown; includes Readers' Poll.
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Subject Matter
The "B" movies: low-priced dreams playing in neightborhood theaters...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "The Collection".
The Collection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Millicent Mason; Chris Baker; Mario Borgatti
She... she's beautiful!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
in the original Russ Jones is credited with co-writing and Paul Reinman with inking. Bhob Stewart gives corrected credits in his blog POTRZEBIE on Monday, May 03, 2010. The last panel was re-written and re-drawn without consultation, and Bhob Stewart says he never submitted another story to Marvel after this appeared.
Vampire Hunting for Fear and Profit Part 3: The Vampire - His Kith and Kin

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?; ? (photographs)
?; ? (photographs)
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5.67
Don't Try To Outsmart the Devil!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Murdock (also in flashback); Igor; Satan; Carl (flashback, death)
Mine! It's all mine!
Reprinting
FlagAdventures into Terror #13 published December 1952
was Don't Try to Outsmart the Devil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
 
Miscellaneous
8
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Satana

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Satana
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
A look at how Satana was developed.
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Subject Matter
The fantastic mansions that reach up from shadow-shrouded forests...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "Bat's Belfry".
Bat's Belfry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Harry Everett Barclay; Leon; Mortimer; Baronet Lohrville
I am writing from my summer home here on the moor...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
9
Adapted from August Derleth's short story.
Another Marvel Masterpiece!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
House ad for Savage Tales #3 (including cover), on sale October 23.
Vampires In Time and Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Lamia
Belief in the vampire has been found in the earliest days of recorded history.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Superheroes and the Occult Winter Special #[nn] published November 1980
as Vampires In Time And Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photograph)
? (photograph)
typeset
Subject Matter
Michael Morbius was dying.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "Demon Fire!".
Demon Fire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
occult
Morbius; Demon-Fire cult (villains); Amanda Saint; Poison-Lark; Katabolik; Arachne (death); Justin; Pete; Edgar; Freddie; Clancy
With fierce intensity you puncture the care-takers flesh...
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
12
Coming Next Issue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Support Your Local Short Auto-Biographer

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
biography
Vampire Tales Feature Page
Don McGregor
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1

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