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Issue: Giant-Size Dracula #4
Publication Date: March 1975
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 12/17/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #113, December 1974.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In5
reprinted 4 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Tomb of Dracula #4 [unnamed variant] published January 2024
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The Demon of Devil's Lake!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Beverly Carpenter
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential Tomb of Dracula #2 published January 2004
as The Demon of Devil's Lake! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
as The Demon of Devil's Lake! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Let It Bleed!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Beverly Carpenter (death); Anton Nyborg (death); Paul Carpenter (also in flashback, death); Stuart (death); Jack Preiss; Father Aimes (death); Penny (death in flashback); Lindy Carpenter (death in flashback)
First Line: The brooding black entity that is the ocean...
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In Content Item: FlagEssential Tomb of Dracula #2 published January 2004
as Let It Bleed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagThe Tomb of Dracula Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2008
as Let It Bleed! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Date: 1936.
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Memos and Meanderings from Your Mighty Muddled Merry-Makers!

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items, house ad for the Mighty Marvel Comicon.
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Forbidden Drink

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Philip Sanderson; Rosalie Thornton
First Line: The story of a strange man...a strange drink...
Synopsis: An aging actor offers to "sell his soul" for the chance to be young again and woo the beautiful young girl of his eye. No sooner does he utter the words, than a mysterious man appears at his door offering him a jug of water he claims is from the fountain of youth. He says he will claim payment...later...and vanishes. The actor is doubtful it could actually work, but drinks from the jug anyway and finds to his surprise that he is a young man once again.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystic #2 published May 1951
was The Forbidden Drink [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Formerly cited as from Adventures into Terror #4
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The Gargoyles

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: He knew he had to warn the world about the gargoyles!
Synopsis: A man discovers a race of creatures that come up from below ground that the African natives base their wood carvings upon. Since they keep their presence secret, the man worries they mean humanity harm, but everyone he speaks to refuses to believe his fantastic tale. Finally, an African expert agrees to listen to his story, but convinces the man he is imagining things. After he leaves the expert's office, the expert is shown removing a rubber mask revealing him as one of the gargoyles.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #46 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1963
was The Gargoyles [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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I Am the Living Ghost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, occult
First Line: For the last seven hundred years I have been living in Blackhorn Castle, here on the desolate moors
Synopsis: A man enters a castle determined to prove that there are no ghosts, but the events he experiences convince him that the castle is haunted, and so he flees. It turns out that the castle does not contain any ghosts, but is possessed by animated suits of armour and living stone gargoyles.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales of Suspense #15 [unnamed variant] published March 1961
was I Am the Living Ghost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person by one of the animated beings.
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You Can't Escape

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: I want you to tremble...
Synopsis: Breaking the fourth wall a vampire addresses the reader, his intended victim. He tells how he first encountered his victim-to-be when he asked for help and was rebuffed. The vampire followed the reader, discovering where he lived and what comics he liked to buy. He spent considerable money printing up a custom copy of Adventures into Terror to place on the newsstand. The last panel of the story shows the vampire with claws extended and fangs bared - daring you to look over your shoulder.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Terror #6 published October 1951
was You Can't Escape [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Possible Molno pencils and Alascia inks per Nick Caputo.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Dan Scontras and Bob Rodi.

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