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Issue: Vampire Tales #4
Publication Date: April 1974
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 02/05/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #103, January - February 1974.
No issue number on cover.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
 
 
Night of the Snow Vampire

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Stan Lee Presents Vampire Tales

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
Shows credits, table of contents and indicia, includes a still from an undetermined movie.
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photography)
? (photography)
typeset
Subject Matter
The possessed!
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Miscellaneous
1
Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "Lighthouse of the Possessed".
Lighthouse of the Possessed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror, occult, superhero
Demon-Fire cult (villains); Blood-Tide (first appearance; villain); Jason Knight (death); Agnes (death); Oliver (death); Brock Kilbride; Arlene Randolph; Duke Mannery; Monte Harris; Sister Saint (death)
You watch your victim approach, Michael Morbius, you watch that human network of arteries...
Reprinting
FlagVampire Tales Annual #1 published January 1975
as Lighthouse of the Possessed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
13
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Morbius; Satana
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Letters from: Duane Hanson, Scott Olsen, Steven Scheibner, John Drake, Brian Earl Brown, Lee Cooley and Gary Alan Asperberg; Readers' Poll.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Vampires

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (photography)
? (photography)
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
6
The Boogie Man Will Get You If You Don't Subscribe!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
Notes on a Piece I Don't Want to Write

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
biography
Vampire Tales Feature Page
Gerry Conway
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photography)
? (photography)
typeset
Subject Matter
Love is perhaps the strangest of human emotions.
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Miscellaneous
1
Uses still of undetermined film to introduce "Somewhere Waits the Vampire".
Somewhere Waits the Vampire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Sophia Von Heinif (death); Sophia's father (death); Kraska; Sophia's mother (death in flashback); Sophia's brother (death in flashback)
My daughter in the arms of a vampire ... kissing him!
Reprinting
FlagJourney into Unknown Worlds #27 published May 1954
was Somewhere Waits the Vampire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
Pages 3 and 4 are reversed.
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
The vampire's castle: A brooding demesne of crumbling mortar and dank stone.
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Miscellaneous
1
Uses still of from from undetermined film to introduce "A Vampire's Home Is His Castle".
A Vampire's Home Is His Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Syrenzy; Count Varma (death); Christina (death); Nadia (death)
Worried clouds swiftly skim across the nocturnal sky...
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Miscellaneous
9
Hell House Is Dying

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (photography)
? (photography)
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
Crazy Magazine Big Issue #3 - Now On Sale!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
?
?
?
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Miscellaneous
1
Promotional advertisement for Crazy Magazine #3. Includes stories featuring the Walnuts, Plain High Drifter, Last Tangle in Paris, Soiled Green, Hot-Rods of the Gods, Mooses Through History, If Nixon Has His Own Comic Strip and Rock 'n' Rollin's Stone.
[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
? (photography)
? (photography)
typeset
Subject Matter
A vampire's home is his coffin...
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Miscellaneous
1
Uses still of from from undetermined film to introduce "The Vampire's Coffin!".
The Vampire's Coffin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Captain Banner (death); Johnny (death)
Stop them! Somebody stop them!
Reprinting
FlagMystery Tales #15 published September 1953
was The Vampire's Coffin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
The Drifting Snow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Aunt Mary; Ernest; Clodetta; Henry (death); Ernest's Grandfather (flashback); Henry's Father (flashback); Lisa; Sam
Down in Chicago, when they spoke of 'up north' or the 'Wisconsin woods'...
Reprinting
FlagMasters of Terror #1 published July 1975
as The Drifting Snow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
Adapted from August Derleth's short story.
Lilith: The First Vampire

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
Adam; Sanvi; Sansanvi; Semangelaf
According to ancient Hebrew legend...
Reprinting
FlagJewish Comix Anthology #[1] published July 2014
as Lilith the First Vampire [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Lilith is the legendary first wife of Adam and first vampire(ss).
Next Comes Bloodtide!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1

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