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Series: Marvel Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Marvel Tales
Issue: 127
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: October 1954
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Stan Lee

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Marvel Tales #127
Owner: jimbo707

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Story Title: Gone is the Gargoyle! - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Harry Anderson
Inks:Harry Anderson
Colors:Stan Goldberg


Story Title: Vampires Also Die - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Gene Colan (signed)
Inks:Gene Colan (signed)
Letters:Sam Rosen
Synopsis:A vampire jealous of his brother's prowess bargains with a witch to kill him. He is gleeful when he returns to his parents with the news his brother has been slain, thinking their attention will focus only on him. They burst into tears stating they have lost two sons this night. They explain that a blood disorder causes him to need more blood than usual and his brother was strong enough to provide transfusions while he slept, not wanting him to feel like an invalid. Out of shame the vampire kills himself with a tree limb.


Story Title: A Thing of Evil - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:John Romita (illustration)
Inks:John Romita (illustration)
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Buried Alive! - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Bob McCarty
Inks:Bob McCarty ?
Synopsis:A magician gets his romantically-minded assistant out of the way by locking her in a safe and dumping it in the river so that she drowns as water leaks in. To celebrate his marriage to a wealthy society lady he has himself buried in a coffin with instructions to his new assistant to tunnel beneath the coffin so he can open a latch and escape through it. The assistant is doped with knockout drops by the zombie drowned girl. She pulls the magician out of the coffin into her dark embrace.


Story Title: He Walks Through Walls - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:John Forte (signed)
Inks:John Forte (signed)
Genre:fantasy
Synopsis:When a bank president receives a shock in his bathroom which renders his body intangible he decides to rob his own bank. The effect wears off right as his body is intersecting the bank vault door.


Story Title: Skrak's Secret! - comic story
Pages:4
Pencils:Al Eadeh
Inks:Al Eadeh
Synopsis:An envious artist wishes to learn how a painter paints the grotesque figures that he does so he sneaks into the studio and surprises the man in his work. He reveals that he paints from live models as he uncorks a jar of ether and lays out implements of plastic surgery.


Story Title: Gone Is the Gargoyle - comic story
Pages:5
Pencils:Mort Drucker (signed)
Inks:Mort Drucker (signed)
Genre:horror-suspense
Synopsis:A gargoyle disguises himself as a policeman to marry a human girl. He turns a blind eye as his brethren kill humans, but when they attack his wife, he is forced to kill one. Another gargoyle reveals to the girl that she is married to one of their own, and her exposed husband takes his life in shame.


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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