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Issue: Vampire Tales #8
Publication Date: December 1974
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Issues: #8 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 10/08/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 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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Altar of the Undead

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Heart Devourer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: From Russian folklore comes one of the strangest vampire tales of all.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Terror #2 published January 1978
as The Heart Devourer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Blade; Martin Cunningham; Apocalypse
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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High Midnight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult, superhero
Character(s): Death-Flame (flashback to death); Sagebrush Robbins; Howie Rivers; Danny-Boy; Apocalypse [Kazarian] (death); Reaper (death); Phineas T. Coroner (death); Rigor (death)
First Line: Horror disturbs. True horror often, is undisguised glimpses of death.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Splash taken from previous story.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Ralph Macchio, Joe Marren, Kathleen Resch, Steven Scheibner, and Richard Clark; Readers' Poll.
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The Vendetta

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Bernardo Latta (death, also in flashback); Signora Cella; Salino (death in flashback); Rico; Sophia Latta
First Line: A hot day, brutal even for the Miditerranean summers of Sicily...
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In Content Item: FlagTales of Terror #2 published January 1978
as The Vendetta [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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The Inheritance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Character(s): Jason Thornehill; Kit; Gus; Mr. Peterson; Nurse Stanton; Martin Cunningham (death)
First Line: For some of us, fate can act suddenly and sharply...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Beware the Legions!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, superhero
Character(s): Lady Vanity (flashback); Neva Wytte (also in flashback); Ling; Billy-Blue (corpse, death in flashback, final death); Robbie; Vampire Legion (first appearance)
First Line: Tourists never trod this squalid London side-street...
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In Content Item: FlagCastle of Horror #2 published October 1978
as Beware the Legions! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBlade: Black & White #[nn] published January 2004
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover background from page 8 of story
In Content Item: FlagBlade: Black & White #[nn] published January 2004
as Beware the Legions [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Issue #10's letters page reveals that Blade's logo was designed by Marv Wolfman and crafted by Gaspar Saladino.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: All-New and All-Great!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #3, on sale October 15.
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Werewolf at the Door?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Werewolf
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for Monsters of the Movies (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (with cover), on sale December 17.
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Two Magnificent Heroes in Two Macabre Adventures

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1

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