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Issue: Vampire Tales #1
Publication Date: August 1973
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Issues: #1 of 11 Issues
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Monster GroupView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 05/01/1973
Volume: 1
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 42 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #96, April 1973.
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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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Genres: horror
Character(s): Ianthe
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #2 published January 2012
as Vampire Tales #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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La Salle Extension University

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Disclose Notes: Ad for home study courses.
Inside front cover.
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Stan Lee Presents Vampire Tales

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Disclose Notes: Shows credits, table of contents and indicia. Small black & white cover reproduction.
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Character(s): Count Orlock
First Line: Greetings, O walker in darkness.
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Disclose Notes: Uses still of Count Orlock from 1922 film "Nosferatu" to introduce "Morbius".
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Morbius

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Genres: horror, occult, superhero
Character(s): Barbara Clark (death); Carolyn; Nilrac (first appearance; villain; death); Madame Laera (first appearance; death)
First Line: This is the city: Los Angeles, California, at twilight.
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In Content Item: FlagMarvel Firsts: The 1970s #2 published January 2012
as The Creature from the Crystal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 14
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First Line: When I planned to retire before fifty:
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Disclose Notes: Ad offering 24 page booklet on how to start a Duraclean Dealership.
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Feature(s): Editorial
Character(s): Lon Chaney, Jr. (photograph)
First Line: Blood Is Thicker…
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Pages: 1.5
Disclose Notes: Discusses vampires in literature, comic books and films which will be or have been used in the new Vampire Tales magazine.
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Because You Demanded It -- Savage Tales Is Coming Back!

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Feature(s): Savage Tales; Conan
Character(s): Conan
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Savage Tales #2, October 1973.
On bottom of last page of "Blood Is Thicker…".
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Character(s): David Peel (photograph); Yvonne Monlaur (photograph)
First Line: Ah, Lucretia my sweet…how invitingly you await your Living-Dead paramour.
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Disclose Notes: Introduction to "To Kill a Werewolf!", fumetti-style, using a still from the movie "The Brides of Dracula" (1960).
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To Kill a Werewolf!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Kenneth Long (death); Hastings; Lloyd Wayne
First Line: Your history, Kenneth Long, must have started in some dark, unknown depth of your subconscious...
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was The Fangs of the Wolf [Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Fangs of the Wolf", black and white
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The Vampire: His Kith and Kin: An Analysis in Five Parts of the Book by Montague Summers

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Character(s): Lon Chaney, Sr. (photograph); Bela Lugosi (photograph); John Carradine (photograph)
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Reading More But Enjoying It Less?

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Feature(s): Crazy
Character(s): Marcus Welby; Woody Allen; Bob Hope; Lily Tomlin; Richard Nixon; Alfred E. Neuman
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Beware! -- The Zombie Has Risen From The Grave!

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Feature(s): Zombie
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Wear The Badge Of The Future In…Conservation

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Character(s): Christopher Lee (photograph)
First Line: I am Dracula
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Disclose Notes: An introduction to "The Vampyre!", fumetti-style using a still of Christopher Lee as Dracula.
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The Vampyre!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Aubrey; Jessica; Lady Mercer; Henri; Ianthe (death)
First Line: I first heard the tales in greece...
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Pages: 13
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These 3 Big Drafting Kits Given To You!

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Disclose Notes: On top of page between sixth and seventh pages of "The Vampyre!"
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The Ultimate Fiend Club!

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Feature(s): FOOM!
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Now At Last You Can Be The Host

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Disclose Notes: Ad for reproductions of horror-themed oil paintings for $1.50 each, from Johnson-Mashburn Studios.
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Character(s): Michael Ripper (photograph)
First Line: …All right, Silas. Danny's dead and done with.
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Satan Can Wait!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Danny; Jim; Burt; Wilson
First Line: This is Danny, a hard-working but happy man without a worry in the world.
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From Content Item: FlagJourney into Mystery #15 published April 1954
was Satan Can Wait [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
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He's Coming Your Way!

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Feature(s): Monsters Unleashed!
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Monsters Unleashed #2, September 1973.
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Coming Your Way In The Next Great Issue Of…Monster Madness

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Feature(s): Monster Madness
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Monster Madness #2, 1973.
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Scary, Life Size Monster Ghost Obeys Your Commands!

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Disclose Notes: Ad for 7 ft. polyethylene ghost for $1.00, from Melton Co.
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This Little Old Man Is A Murderer And Cannibal!

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Disclose Notes: Ad for the book "Pictorial History of Crime" for $6.50.
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Win Every Fight

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Disclose Notes: Ad for self-defense booklets.
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Movie Posters

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Disclose Notes: Ad offering catalog of "actual posters" for $1.00.
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Are You a Chained Smoker?

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Disclose Notes: Public Service Announcement
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Play Guitar in 7 Days

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Ed Sale's "Secret System" to learn to play guitar.
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The Insult That Made A Man Out Of "Mac"

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Character(s): Charles Atlas (photo)
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The Worst (No Kiddin'!) Vampire Films Ever Made!

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And, Just In Case You Ever Doubted It -- Dracula Lives!

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Feature(s): Dracula Lives
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Dracula Lives #2, 1973.
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Fear Lives! -- In the Haunt of Horror!

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Feature(s): The Haunt of Horror
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Disclose Notes: House ad for prose digest magazine "The Haunt of Horror", 1973.
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Back Issues Offer!

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Feature(s): Marvel Comics
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Disclose Notes: House ad for back issues of Dracula Lives #1, Monster Madness #1 & #2 and Monsters Unleashed #1 for $1.00 each, with cover repros.
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First Line: Step into my parlor, O wanderer of the night.
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Disclose Notes: Introduction, fumetti-style, for "Revenge of the Unliving!"
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Revenge of the Unliving!

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Melissa Jenkins (also in flashback, death); James Gordon (also in flashback); Jim Gordon
First Line: I -- hear! I -- see! Once more, I -- live!
Synopsis: A vampire rises from her coffin to kill the grandson of the man who imprisoned her.
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Pages: 8
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Next Issue: Once More -- The Man Called Morbius!

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Feature(s): Vampire Tales; Morbius
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Pages: 0.64
Disclose Notes: House ad for Vampire Tales #2.
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The Heaviest Human On Record Weighed 1,069 Lbs…

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Disclose Notes: Ad for Guinness Book Of World Records for $5.95.
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Monster

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Disclose Notes: Ad for 7-foot Frankenstein monster and Boney the Skeleton for $1.00 each, from Honor House Products.
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Flying Helicopter Goes Over 100' High!

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Disclose Notes: Ad for various novelty items.
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3 Complete Fishing Outfits

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Disclose Notes: Ad for 411 pc. fishing outfit for $12.95.
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Never finished high school?

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