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Issue: Vampire Tales #3
Publication Date: February 1974
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Issues: #3 of 11 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/04/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (editor); Marv Wolfman (associate editor)
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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
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Night of the Demon Cult

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, superhero
Character(s): Morbius; Amanda Saint; Katabolik
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In Content Item: FlagEssential Marvel Horror #1 published January 2006
as Vampire Tales #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: This is the city-Los Angeles, California.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Kiss of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Satana; Harry Gotham (death); Brenner; Ruth Cummins (death); Doctor Darkos Edge (death)
First Line: Satan worshippers! My father must be with me tonight.
Synopsis: A preacher tries to have Satana killed.
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In Content Item: FlagVampire Tales Annual #1 published January 1975
as The Kiss of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Marvel Horror #1 published January 2006
as The Kiss of Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Satana next appears in Haunt of Horror (Marvel, 1974 series) #2.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset; ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Vampire Mails
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jeff Young, V.F. Richards, and Brian Earl Brown; includes Readers' Poll.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The "B" movies: low-priced dreams playing in neightborhood theaters...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "The Collection".
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The Collection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Millicent Mason; Chris Baker; Mario Borgatti
First Line: She... she's beautiful!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: in the original Russ Jones is credited with co-writing and Paul Reinman with inking. Bhob Stewart gives corrected credits in his blog POTRZEBIE on Monday, May 03, 2010. The last panel was re-written and re-drawn without consultation, and Bhob Stewart says he never submitted another story to Marvel after this appeared.
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Vampire Hunting for Fear and Profit Part 3: The Vampire - His Kith and Kin

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 5.67
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Don't Try To Outsmart the Devil!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Murdock (also in flashback); Igor; Satan; Carl (flashback, death)
First Line: Mine! It's all mine!
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From Content Item: FlagAdventures into Terror #13 published December 1952
was Don't Try to Outsmart the Devil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Satana

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Satana
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: A look at how Satana was developed.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The fantastic mansions that reach up from shadow-shrouded forests...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "Bat's Belfry".
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Bat's Belfry

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Harry Everett Barclay; Leon; Mortimer; Baronet Lohrville
First Line: I am writing from my summer home here on the moor...
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Adapted from August Derleth's short story.
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Another Marvel Masterpiece!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Conan
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Savage Tales #3 (including cover), on sale October 23.
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Vampires In Time and Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lamia
First Line: Belief in the vampire has been found in the earliest days of recorded history.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes and the Occult Winter Special #[nn] published November 1980
as Vampires In Time And Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Michael Morbius was dying.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Uses still from undetermined film to introduce "Demon Fire!".
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Demon Fire!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Morbius; Demon-Fire cult (villains); Amanda Saint; Poison-Lark; Katabolik; Arachne (death); Justin; Pete; Edgar; Freddie; Clancy
First Line: With fierce intensity you puncture the care-takers flesh...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Coming Next Issue

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Support Your Local Short Auto-Biographer

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): Vampire Tales Feature Page
Character(s): Don McGregor
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Pages: 1

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