Vampire Tales
Vampire Tales | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Magazine Management |
Publication date | 1973 - June 1975 |
No. of issues | 11, plus 1 Super Annual |
Creative team | |
Written by | Don McGregor, Doug Moench, Marv Wolfman, Roy Thomas, Ron Goulart, Tony Isabella |
Artist(s) | Pablo Marcos, Rich Buckler, Tom Sutton, Mike Vosburg, Sonny Trinidad, Tony DeZuniga, John Romita Sr., Carlos Garzon, Win Mortimer, Vicente Alcazar, Esteban Maroto |
Vampire Tales was an American black-and-white horror comics magazine published by Magazine Management, a corporate sibling of Marvel Comics.[1] The series ran 11 issues and one annual publication from 1973 to 1975, and featuring vampires as both protagonists and antagonists.
A magazine rather than a comic book, it did not fall under the purview of the comics industry's self-censorship Comics Code Authority, allowing the title to feature stronger content — such as moderate profanity, partial nudity, and more graphic violence — than the color comics of the time that featured Dracula stories.
Publishing history
Vampire Tales ran 11 issues
The magazine starred Morbius the Living Vampire, in a feature written primarily by Don McGregor, with pencillers including Pablo Marcos, Rich Buckler, Tom Sutton, and Mike Vosburg, and later by writer Doug Moench, with artist Sonny Trinidad. The vampire hunter Blade the Vampire Slayer starred in two stories by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Tony DeZuniga, in issues #8-9 (Dec. 1974 - Feb. 1975). Steve Gerber contributed a Morbius story to issue #1 (Aug. 1973) and a story starring Lilith, Dracula's daughter, to issue #6 (Aug. 1974).
Issue #2 (Oct. 1973) introduced Satana the Devil's Daughter, in a four-page teaser by writer-editor Roy Thomas and artist John Romita Sr.; and detective Hodiah Twist and his assistant Conrad Jeavons, created by Don McGregor and penciller Carlos Garzon.
Writer
Stories reprinted from Marvel's 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics included pre-Comics Code Authority work by such artists as Bill Everett and Carmine Infantino. Other reprints included writer-artist Jim Steranko's "At the Stroke of Midnight" from Tower of Shadows #1 (Sept. 1969) and the 11-page Morbius origin sequence from The Amazing Spider-Man #102 (Nov. 1971).
Vampire Tales Super Annual was published in 1975, reprinting stories from the magazine.[4] It lasted one issue.
Marvel Preview #3 (Sept. 1975) and 6 (Dec. 1975) concluded the four-part Blade story begun in Vampire Tales #8-9, of which the third part from issue #3 would have been in Vampire Tales #12 (as originally announced at the end of issue #11 (June 1975)) had that title not been cancelled.
Collected editions
- Blade the Vampire-Slayer: Black & White (collects the Blade stories from Vampire Tales #8-9)
- Vampire Tales Vol. 1 (collects Vampire Tales #1-3)
- Vampire Tales Vol. 2 (collects Vampire Tales #4-7)
- Vampire Tales Vol. 3 (collects Vampire Tales #8-11)
References
- ISBN 978-1605490564.
- ^ Vampire Tales at the Grand Comics Database.
- ^ Marvel Monster Group (brand emblem) at the Grand Comics Database.
- ^ Vampire Tales Super Annual at the Grand Comics Database.
External links
- Vampire Tales at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators