DRACULA! ZOMBIES! GILGAMESH!
MARVEL PREVIEW PRESENTS
_THE HAUNT OF
EDITORIAL
UNLEASHED, and TALES OF
THE ZOMBIE titles. The name of
the game weald be diversify—with
among tbe soda] studies students in you getting a gut-wrenching reper¬
our readership: in fact, it’ll probab¬ ealotrs—resulting t toire of fright fictions encompassing
ly raise the eyebrows of a few of my i than j everything from uncanny tales of
average Marvelmaniae could af¬ the Undead to shock stories contain¬
ford—I think the potentialities of ing the earthy eerinsss of a mental
many of the series stars of those
titles {suds as Lilith, Morbius, the When I had finished,he considered
Zombie, and others) were only
big cycle in comics. The other fellow ball. Mv stomach suffered in silence
actively involved in tbe discussion Such were nty thoughts a few during this unintended affrontery.
argued that because of the STAR months back after first becoming Apparently, its enzymic alarm
WARS phenomenon. Science Fic¬ editor of Marvel’s magazine fine deferred to the gravity of the
tion was to he the next big trend. I when I ventured into the sanctum
sat akntly, as is my wont, and took sanctorum of Stan (the Man) Lee ‘‘All right,” he finally said, the
in both sides of their argument. (publisher and graphic story guru of sourball disappearing in a droplet of
Even after digesting their view¬ us all). 1 remember the occasion dissolved sugar, “let's go with itasa
points, my own feelings remained well, for my newly acquired duties one-shot. Chn we have it on sale by
unchanged. For despite the enviable were keeping me extremely busy and Halloween?"
complacency of people secure in tuy starved stomach was demanding “A one-sHol'." I pouted, slump¬
their observations that the rise or I take it to the lunch that 1 had thus ing sullenly back on his guest couch.
fall of a particular series was the / had envisioned launching it in the
result of "hitting ti pages of MARVEL PREVIEW and
immediately following it up in a
implicity of regular book of its ow n. Where had
1 gone wrong, 1 asked myself.
Doesn't he realize we’ve got too
many good stories, too many po¬
opportune than others for the un- tential plotlines, loo many fimbo-
teding of certain genre products, with the man who created Marvel kst characters to make this just a
but these are almost always pro¬ one-shot? My disappointment was
ducts conceived bv entrepreneurs ‘‘I've only got a minute. Jim poorly hidden 1 freely admit:
hoping to cash in on the success of a (Gabon, our esteemed president of “Would you feel better about it if
MCG) and 1 have a luncheon date. w e made it a quarterly?”
t predictable ~
But l • ’ wanted to see me
probably the only He smiled. -
My point is, that 1 believe the My stomach growled.
public will be responsive to a
project at any time, provided that busily working on a
the project is of high quality and has magazine,” 1 ejaculated, just as of beef goulash, r
been given ample promotion to ear¬ eager to get down to business, i growling stopped.
ner the public’s attention. began pouring out mv plans for
Thus opposed to the concept of reviving the HAUNT OF HORROR
chancing into a cyclic pattern, 1 magazine. As I saw it. it would be
pooh-poohed the warnings of critics quite different from the original ROGER SLIFER, Editor
who claimed the time for horror in HAUNT OF HORROR which we
the comic book marketplace is past. published a few years back. It
BREAKING OF THE HAPPY NEWS CAME THE CRUSHING OF
SKULL-BONES, TED'S, AS ANGEL'S ENRAGED FATHER VENTED HIS
WRATH ON HIS REJECTED SON-IN-LAW.
ANGEL WAS A DELICATE CREATURE, NOT PRONE TO THOUGHTS
OF VIOLENCE BUT AT THAT MOMENT SHE WISHED HER DEAR
FATHER DEAD AND GONE. AND AMAZINGLY ENOUGH. HER WISH
WAS GRANTED. ANGEL'S BODY WAS INVADED BY A SHE-DEMON
WHOSE HATRED OF HER OWN FATHER—COUNT DRACULA HIM-
SELf!—DREW HER TO YOUNG GIRLS IN WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL
SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES. A BITE ON THE NECK AND THE DEED
'SOANGEl WAS ON HER OWN, AND SHE CROSSED THE WATERS
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Hidden in the shadows where legend and reality MERGE, there are tales of a being who has lived
for more than FIVE HUNDRED YEARS: they say he is a creature born not on earth, but in the
deepest bowels of HELL itself: they say he thrives on the BLOOD of innocents, that he is King of
Darkness ... the Prince of Evil, and that even the bravest man quakes in FEAR at the merest
mention of his name ...
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: DOUG MOENCH
. OUR WORLD—IN A .SECRET WAR.
WITH BEINGS FROM BEYOND^
THE STARS!
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Imagination?* *
Or is it actually
happening...
RightNOW?l
A TRIP INTO TOTAL TERROR?.
" DAVID KRAfTS HERB TRVWY^X
WONDERMENT—WEIRD & WILD—AWAITS IN ISSUE#/3 OF
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MARVEL BULLPEN BULLETINS
1 Uoitt, which further means that British books. Danny replaces that a couple of sessions ba
Bouncing BOB BUDIANSKY who re- mentioned that the King was
centty so impressed us with his pen- ing up some nifty new titles. Tl
STAN LEE’S SOAPBOX I citing of a special Falcon filler story delayed slightly. Jack is just
that we decided to start throwing free- ready to spring them on you, a
Remember years ago when we still lots more! We've finally sent to^Eamest ^ERf^CWUrs* pencHs lance art assignments Ms way: Bob’s should be able to announce
warned you that ol’ Marvel is tak- one of our greatest secret project and inks on MARVEL TWO-4N-ONE in Hie middle of a DAREDEVIL tale with appropriate fantare, in tM
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