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Issue: Vampire Tales #8
Publication Date: December 1974
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 10/08/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 11 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Marv Wolfman (editor); Tony Isabella (consulting editor); Roy Thomas (editor-in-chief)
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Altar of the Undead

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
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Miscellaneous
1
The Heart Devourer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
From Russian folklore comes one of the strangest vampire tales of all.
Reprinting
FlagTales of Terror #2 published January 1978
as The Heart Devourer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
Blade; Martin Cunningham; Apocalypse
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Miscellaneous
1
High Midnight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
occult
Morbius [Michael Morbius]; Amanda Saint (last appearance); Death-Flame (flashback to death); Sagebrush Robbins; Howie Rivers; Danny-Boy; Apocalypse [Kazarian] (death); Reaper (death); Phineas T. Coroner (death); Rigor (death)
Horror disturbs. True horror often, is undisguised glimpses of death.
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Miscellaneous
19
Splash taken from previous story.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
2
Letters from Ralph Macchio, Joe Marren, Kathleen Resch, Steven Scheibner, and Richard Clark.
The Vendetta

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Bernardo Latta (also in flashback); Signora Cella; Salino (flashback, death); Rico; Sophia Latta
A hot day, brutal even for the Miditerranean summers of Sicily...
Reprinting
FlagTales of Terror #2 published January 1978
as The Vendetta [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Inheritance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Jason Thornehill; Kit; Gus; Mr. Peterson; Nurse Stanton; Martin Cunningham (death)
For some of us, fate can act suddenly and sharply...
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Miscellaneous
10
Beware the Legions!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror, superhero
Blade [Eric Brooks]; Safron Caulder; Lady Vanity (flashback); Neva Wytte (also in flashback); Ling; Billy-Blue (corpse, death in flashback, final death); Robbie; Vampire Legion (first appearance)
Tourists never trod this squalid London side-street...
Reprinting
FlagCastle of Horror #2 published October 1978
as Beware the Legions! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagBlade: Black & White #[nn] published January 2004
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover background from page 8 of story
FlagBlade: Black & White #[nn] published January 2004
as Beware the Legions [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
Issue #10's letters page reveals that Blade's logo was designed by Marv Wolfman and crafted by Gaspar Saladino.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy
Conan
All-New and All-Great!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
House ad for The Savage Sword of Conan (Marvel, 1974 series) #3, on sale October 15.
Werewolf at the Door?

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Werewolf
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Miscellaneous
0.5
House ad for Monsters of the Movies (Marvel, 1974 series) #4 (with cover), on sale December 17.
Two Magnificent Heroes in Two Macabre Adventures

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (promo copy)
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Morbius; Blade
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Miscellaneous
1

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