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Issue: Tower of Shadows #9
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #9 of 9 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interiors
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Pickman's Model

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Inker(s): Bernie Wrightson (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Morrie Kuramoto
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Pickman's Model

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): H. P. Lovecraft (original story); Roy Thomas (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Tom Palmer
Inker(s): Tom Palmer
Colorist(s): Tom Palmer ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Roy Thomas (host); Tom Palmer (host); Thurber; Eliot; Pickman
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMasters of Terror #2 published September 1975
as Pickman's Model [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: H. P. Lovecraft adaptation.
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I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee (plot) ?; Larry Lieber (script) ?
Penciller(s): Don Heck
Inker(s): Don Heck
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Mr. Smith
Synopsis: A scientist builds an ultimate bomb and plans to use it to hold the world hostage. He hides it in a room believed haunted, but when he goes to give his ultimatum to the UN he realizes that he is now a ghost.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagTales to Astonish #17 published March 1961
was I Dared to Enter the Haunted Room! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: V-37
Disclose Notes: Narrated in the first person.
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The World That Was Lost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Christopher Rule
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Captain Jordan; Linus Vermeer (only appearance for both)
Synopsis: An old eccentric in a wheelchair hires a sea captain to take him to a spot where he believes that the lost continent of Atlantis lies. When they reach their destination he reveals himself to be a merman and thanks the sailors for bringing him home before diving overboard.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #69 published June 1959
was The World That Was Lost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Job Number: T-226
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The Threat from the 5th Dimension!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stan Lee ?
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ray Holloway ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): unnamed writer; 'Dr. Allen Brown' [actually a 5th dimensional invader] (only appearance for both)
Synopsis: The 5th dimension is the dream dimension. The creatures there are trying to pass into this dimension, but belief in their existence as opposed to surmising a mere dream experience disrupts the structure of the dream dimension and forces the creatures to withdraw from our world. The narrator sells his story to Strange Tales to encourage readers to believe in the creatures and frustrate their invasion aspirations.
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From Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #69 published June 1959
was The Threat from the 5th Dimension! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Job Number: T-222

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