Chamber of Darkness

    (Marvel, 1969, 1972)
™ and ©1970 Marvel Characters, Inc.

Inspired by the success of the Joe Orlando-edited “mystery” titles at DC in the early 1970s, Marvel launched its own horror/suspense books like Chamber of Darkness, Tower of Shadows, and others. Many of the chilling tales followed the classic horror comic formulas laid down by EC in Tales From the Crypt (sanitized for the Comics Code, of course), and were illustrated with gusto by some of Marvel’s top talents of the time, including John Severin, Gil Kane, John Buscema, and Bernie Wrightson. The Marvel books also mined a richer source for story inspiration, adapting tales from the fantasy and horror pulps of the 1930s such as Weird Tales.
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  • 1
    #1
    Oct 1969
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Gary Friedrich, Stan Lee  ·  A: Dennis O’Neil, Don Heck, John Buscema
    9 copies from $14.00
  • 2
    #2
    Dec 1969
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    W: Neal Adams, Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, Stan Lee  ·  A: Marie Severin, Herb Trimpe, Syd Shores, Don Heck
    4 copies from $10.00
  • 3
    #3
    Feb 1970
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    W: Gerry Conway, Edgar Allan Poe, Dennis O’Neil, Roy Thomas  ·  A: Barry Windsor-Smith, Syd Shores, Tom Palmer, John Buscema
    7 copies from $12.00
  • 4
    #4
    Apr 1970
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    W: Jack Kirby, Dennis O’Neil, Tom Sutton, Roy Thomas  ·  A: Jack Kirby, Tom Sutton, Barry Windsor-Smith
    Conan try-out
    9 copies from $18.00
  • 5
    #5
    Jun 1970
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Jack Kirby, H.P. Lovecraft, Roy Thomas, Dennis O’Neil  ·  A: Jack Kirby, John Verpoorten, Johnny Craig, Paul Reinman, Herb Trimpe
    Alan Kupperberg L.O.C.
    3 copies from $18.00
  • 6
    #6
    Aug 1970
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Len Wein, Mimi Gold  ·  A: Sal Buscema, Syd Shores, Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers
    5 copies from $8.00
  • 7
    #7
    Oct 1970
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Bernie Wrightson, Roy Thomas, Tom Sutton  ·  A: Bernie Wrightson, Steve Ditko, Tom Sutton
    Reprints story from Tales to Astonish #13; 1st Bernie Wrightson work at Marvel
    5 copies from $2.66
  • 8
    #8
    Dec 1970
    Cover: $0.15
    W: Bill Everett, Stan Lee  ·  A: Steve Ditko, Dan Adkins, Bill Everett, Don Heck
    Title switches to Monsters on the Prowl
    3 copies from $5.00
  • SE 1
    Special Edition #1
    Jan 1972
    Cover: $0.25
    W: Stan Lee, Dennis O’Neil, Gary Friedrich, Archie Goodwin, Roy Thomas  ·  A: John Buscema, Tom Sutton, Don Heck, Syd Shores
    Indicia reads Chamber of Darkness Special; All reprints
    3 copies from $5.50