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Issue: Vampire Tales #6
Publication Date: August 1974
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Issues: #6 of 11 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 06/04/1974
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #107, June 1974.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Stan Lee Presents Vampire Tales

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Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Credits, table of contents and indicia information with background image.
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The Axe Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult, superhero
Character(s): Rich (mugger; death); Charlie (mugger; death); Mary Jean Peale (Martin's girlfriend; death); Axe Man (death)
First Line: What happened to the red-head?
Synopsis: A mugging is avenged. Martin Gold is arrested for murdering his girlfriend and is released because two more murders happened while he was in jail. As Martin starts to lose his grip on reality he meets Angel O'Hara and takes her to his apartment. The killer appears at Martin's apartment and tries to kill Angel/Lilith, but Lilith kills him.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Story continues in part from Giant-Size Chillers (Marvel, 1974 series) #1.
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Take a Tour with Crazy

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for Crazy Magazine with stories on Worst World, Nixonland, Daytime Television, Streaking, Chinese Moosekind, Billy Jerk, Oozie Girls, and Starloose.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from: The Comics Critic, Jackie Frost, Ralph Macchio, Jeff L. Patton, Dave Farr, Frank Balas, and Mrs. Margaret L. Carter. Contains the Readers' Poll for the ranking of issue #4's stories.
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A Novel Way to Die!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The last in a five-part series based on The Vampire: His Kith & Kin by Montague Summers.
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The Word is Mayhem...

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.
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Angie's Soul

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Angela "Angie" Freeman (introduction; a reporter); Willie Hanson (death); Jimmy Sarran (a cop, death); Mr. Androitti; Thomas Freeman (Angie's brother); Mrs. Santo (member of the People's Defense Association of Harlem); Father Lyons
First Line: It's a city of people, so the song goes...
Synopsis: Angie Freeman and Jimmy Sarran investigate the murder of a junkie (drug addict) and find others. Angie believes it is the work of a vampire. She finds her brother is protecting the People's Defense Association of Harlem as a vampire and they want to sacrifice her.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Angie Freeman's next appearance in Bizarre Adventures (Marvel, 1981 series) #25.
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Blood Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Stevens; George Crandall (death); Mrs. Crandall; Mina (a vampiress)
First Line: Lord protect me! You -- you're a... ...vampire!!!
Synopsis: George is getting old and contemplates on how to live forever. He see an ad in the paper for an attractive vampiress seeking a warm-blooded man. He leaves his wife and heads to the address in the ad and meets Mina. She bites him, but his wife decides to have him cremated (burned).
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In Content Item: FlagVampire Tales Annual #1 published January 1975
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Pages: 8
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Dark Shadows

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (photography)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, horror
Feature(s): Dark Shadows
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Article on the TV show Dark Shadows with multiple photographs of characters.
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The Color of Crimson Gold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): unnamed peasant (death); Tevye (a peddler, death); Tovarr (a gypsy, death); Maleva; Lupesch (death)
First Line: That crippled beggar's infirmity is truly my fortune...
Synopsis: A peasant buys a treasure map from a crippled beggar. Tevye want twice as much gold to continue to supply victims to a group of vampires. Tevye sells a copy of the map to Tovarr. After being warned of vampires in the treasure's cave, Tovarr cautiously enters the cave and hear Tevye and the vampires talking. Tovarr and his friends kill Tevye and leave a trail of blood for the vampires to follow to a cabin where they trap them in and burn it down. After they retrieve the gold and are about the leave the village, the villagers confront them and burn them at the stake.
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Pages: 11
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ? (photography)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Devil's Den
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Article of preview paragraphs of upcoming movies and books.
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He's Dead... And Yet He Lives!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for Tales of the Zombie.

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