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Issue: Weird Suspense #1
Publication Date: February 1975
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagSeaboard
Brand: Atlas ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Atlas Comics
On Sale Date: 12/24/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
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Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date from Comic Reader #113.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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...The Curse of The Tarantula!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror, superhero
Character(s): the first Tarantula [Count Eugene Lycosa I]; Rak-Nora (the Spider Priestess)
First Line: Though I die, Count Lycosa, you will bear my curse...
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Curse of the Tarantula

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror, superhero
Character(s): Joseph (Lycosa's servant, first appearance); Frank Barton (death); Bugsy Barton (death); third unnamed Barton brother (death); Rak-Nora (the Spider Priestess, first appearance, death, in flashback, named in issue #2); the first Tarantula [Count Eugene Lycosa I] (in flashback, first name established in issue #3); Jonathan (in flashback)
Synopsis: A curse causes Count Lycosa to become the Tarantula, a monstrous were-thing.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Tarantula #[nn] published January 1984
as Curse of the Tarantula [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Credits note "character created and scripted by Michael Fleisher."

The modern day Count Eugene Lycosa is the eleventh male in the family line to bear the curse. Issue #3 establishes that he is named Count Eugene Lycosa XI.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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