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Issue: Chamber of Chills #23
Publication Date: July 1976
 
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Title:
Variant: 25¢ Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860216007
Price: $0.30 USD Marvel Variant
$0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 12 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Marv Wolfman
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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The Gorilla Man?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Ron Wilson
Al Milgrom
?
Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
horror
Ken Hale
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Where Lurks the Ghost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stan Lee (signed)
Steve Ditko (signed)
Steve Ditko (signed)
?
Artie Simek
Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
horror
Joe; Mike
A man spends the night in a haunted house with the house’s caretaker. He thinks that he didn’t see a ghost, but the caretaker was killed years ago.
Reprinting
FlagTales to Astonish #25 published November 1961
was Where Lurks the Ghost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
[V-354]
Bat's Tale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stan Lee (signed)
Russ Heath (signed)
Russ Heath (signed)
?
?
Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
horror
A vampire captures a fat man and takes his victim to display him to his brothers. They all agree that not even the Beast-Man captures such victims and ask the fat man his name. The fat man doesn't speak and instead transforms into the Beast-Man and attacks the vampires.
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Tales #113 published April 1953
was Terror Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
3
[C-132]
original title: Terror Tale
Have We Got Marvel T-Shirts for You!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Ad for a range of Marvel superhero T-shirts.

Between pages 2 and 3 of the story "Bat's Tale"
The Men in the Morgue

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Gene Colan (signed)
Gene Colan (signed)
?
Artie Simek
Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
horror
Two killers attempt to hide in the morgue, but the attendant locks them in the freezer.
Reprinting
FlagAdventures into Terror #28 published February 1954
was The Men in the Morgue [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
4
[D-748]
Mighty Marvel Checklist

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
various
various
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Mighty Marvel Checklist
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
Mighty Marvel Checklist, comics listed with a synopsis are Thor #249, Captain America #199, Master of Kung Fu #42, Marvel Feature #5, Amazing Spider-Man #158, The Eternals #1, Astonishing Tales #36 and Dr. Strange #16. Also includes a small reprint of the covers of Marvel Feature #5, Thor #249 and Dr. Strange #16.


Appears between pages 3 and 4 of the story "The Men in the Morgue".
Who Are They? What Are They? Why Are They?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Jack Kirby
Frank Giacoia
?
?
Subject Matter
The Eternals
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
House ad for the first issue of "The Eternals".

Appears between the third and fourth pages of the story "The Men in the Morgue", on the same page as the Mighty Marvel Checklist.
Why Is This Man Smiling?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Crazy
Promo for the new issue of Crazy using a man in a padded cell (with a t-shirt with Stan Lee's face on it) tearing up an issue of Crazy.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
Gorilla Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Robert Q. Sale (signed)
?
?
Stan Lee (original story)
Subject Matter
horror
Ken Hale; Lil Hale
Tormented by dreams of a strange gorilla man, Ken Hale is compelled to go to Africa to figure out what is happening. When he finds the gorilla man of his dreams, they fight and Hale is transformed into a gorilla man himself.
Reprinting
FlagMen's Adventures #26 published March 1954
was Gorilla Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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[D-648]
This story is now considered to be the origin of Gorilla Man of the Agents of Atlas.
An Omnium-Gatherum of Odysseys Occult, Olios, and Occasions Obbligato!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Stan Lee (signed); ?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
Captain America; Shang-Chi
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Between pages 4 and 5 of the story "Gorilla Man".
Captain America and the Red Skull

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Sal Buscema
Mike Esposito
?
Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
superhero
Captain America; Hostess
Captain America; Red Skull
The Red Skull wants to take over the United States before the bicentennial and uses the Cosmic Cube to transport Captain America to him. Captain America foils his plans when he gives the Cosmic Cube a Hostess Twinkie and it stops obeying the Red Skull.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Featured in July 1976 and August 1976 Marvel comics.

Appears here between pages 4 and 5 of the story "Gorilla Man".
Eagle-Eye GI Joe Meets The Intruder

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
John Romita
Mike Esposito ?
?
Irving Watanabe
Subject Matter
superhero
G. I. Joe
G. I. Joe
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1

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