The Zombie (Simon William Garth) is a fictional supernatural character in the Marvel Comics universe, who starred in the black and white, horror comic magazine series Tales of the Zombie (1973-1975) in stories mostly by Steve Gerber and Pablo Marcos. The character had originated 20 years earlier in the standalone story "Zombie" by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, published in the horror anthology comic book Menace #5 (July 1953) from Marvel forerunner Atlas Comics.As Lee had done years before in reviving Henry Pym from a standalone science fiction story to become the superhero Ant-Man, then editor in chief Roy Thomas likewise plucked a character from, in this case, a pre-Comics Code horror tale. The initial modern story, co-scripted by Thomas and Steve Gerber and drawn by John Buscema and Tom Palmer, was a 12 page tale that led into a seven page reprint of the 1950s story (with the art slightly altered to give the Zombie shoulder-length rather than short hair). That original story was also reprinted in 1975's Tales of the Zombie Annual #1, and again two decades later in Curse of the Weird #4 (March 1994), the final issue of a short-lived Marvel horror reprint series...

It’s a First-Issue Frenzy as Marvel collects the crime-fighting debuts of the Dazzler, Ms. Marvel, Shanna the She-Devil and the Cat – with distaff deviltry from the Enchantress and the White Queen! Plus: The Black Widow gets a new costume and the She-Hulk a new team membership, but that’s nothing next to the changes Storm and Rogue undergo! Guest-starring Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men and more! Featuring the first appearance of Jubilee!

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This is no nostalgia trip, True Believers! Just as the original series dealt with the important matters of the day, the new HOWARD tackles the big issues, starting with that scourge of the modern world: Boy Bands! "Making the Band" is classic satire in the Gerber/Howard tradition, with all the added creative freedom that the MAX line allows! Trapped on a world he never made, Howard himself will be lucky to survive his encounter with the corporate music world... unchanged! What do we mean by that? Just check out the cover to the debut issue by painter Glenn Fabry!

This first issue of Howard the Duck opens with Howard thinking of committing suicide and then finds himself involved in a bizarre adventure where he meets Beverly Switzler and Spider-Man for the first time, and faces off against Pro-Rata, the Financial Wizard.

When Marvel's attempt to publish a digest-sized prose horror anthology flopped, they recycled the title, THE HAUNT OF HORROR, as an addition to their line of black-and-white monster/hooror comics.  The series featured stories showcasing Marvel Universe characters (Satana the Devil's Daughter, Gabriel the Devil-Hunter), adaptations of horror short stories, original anthological stand-alone tales, reprints of old Atlas comics stories, prose stories and articles.  This incarnation was only slightly more successful, lasting five issues.The title "HAUNT OF HORROR" was revived by Marvel in the mid-2000s for two mini-series featuring mature-reader adaptaions of stories by Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

The series finale was handled extremely well, and although I'm sure there were many more issues planned out Hard Time has a solid and satisfying conclusion.

One stupid prank costs four students their lives and 15 years old Ethan Harrow his future. But something powerful has been growing within Ethan, and on the day of his sentencing, it escapes once and for all. Will it be a source of massive power, a chance at redemption, or the cruelest of curses?

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Greg Salinger, A.K.A. the mania-prone Fool Killer, awakens in an insane asylum. Meanwhile, Kurt Gerhardt comes to his senses (or loses them entirely), following the violent death of his father. From the trenches of insanity, a new Fool Killer rises.

A high school student named Amber Hunt is one of the most popular girls in her school and very spoiled. In the middle of her biology class, Amber Hunt and the rest of her classmates find that a battle between ultras, people with super-human powers, is going on right outside of their school. To Amber Hunt's surprise, she finds that both factions of ultras are fighting over her. The winner of the fight, the Exiles, gather Amber Hunt before she can escape and they take her to their secret headquarters: an island off the coast of California. There she meets Doctor Rachel Deming, who explains that the Exiles saved Amber from certain death. Meanwhile, the Supreme Soviet informs Malcolm Kort, the man who hired him to capture Amber Hunt, that he has failed. Supreme Soviet still demands payment and Kort introduces him to Hot Rox, a powerful ultra. Hot Rox places Supreme Soviet in a holding tank that exposes him to an mRNA gene therapy that would give people with the Theta virus a super power, but kills those without it. Since Supreme Soviet is only human, it effectively killed him...

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Collects Iron Man (1968) #55; Captain Marvel (1968) #25-30; Marvel Feature (1971) #12; Daredevil (1964) #105-107; Captain Marvel (1968) #31-32;Avengers (1963) #125; Warlock (1972) #9-11, 15; Avengers Annual (1967) #7; Marvel Two -In-One Annual #2; material from Logan's Run #6. See Thanos's bid to become a god and lay siege to Earth, with only the Avengers able to stop him.