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Series: Crypt of Shadows

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Crypt of Shadows
Issue: 5
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: September 1973
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Roy Thomas

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Crypt of Shadows #5
Owner: Ghost Town

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Story Title: The Graveyard Ghoul! - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Ron Wilson ?
Inks:Mike Esposito ?
Letters:Morrie Kuramoto
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: I Die Too Often - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Gil Kane
Inks:Gil Kane ?
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death...until he hears the warden summon his ghost from its grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.


Story Title: The Man Who Steals Gravestones! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Sol Brodsky
Inks:Sol Brodsky
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A man who steals gravestones in order to grind them down and resell them is thwarted when one of the corpses wants it back.


Story Title: Red as a Lobster - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks:Jim Mooney
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:Lobsters get their revenge on a diver who likes to boil them alive in order to observe their suffering by herding him into a hot spring.


Story Title: Half Man, Half...? - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Robert Q. Sale (signed)
Inks:Robert Q. Sale
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A scientist invents a cobalt bomb that results in monstrous mutations in a few individuals present at the test site. He hunts them down and shoots them, but when he awakens from the night's work and looks in the bathroom mirror, he sees a monstrous visage glaring back at him. He thinks that he must have been affected as well and uses the gun on himself. The shot wakes his son and wife, but the mother tells her boy it was probably a car backfiring and to go back to sleep. The boy asks his mother how dad will take the joke he played taping a monster picture onto his bathroom mirror.


Story Title: More Mirth-Inducing Memorabilia from Memo-Minded Marvel! (Or: Savage Tales Is Alive and Well and Living in a Suburb Outside Cimmeria!) - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
Pages:0.5
Letters:typeset


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