Beware (Marvel)

    (Marvel, 1973-1974)
™ and ©1972 Magazine Management Co., Inc.
Series continued as Tomb of Darkness #9

When the Comics Code was originally devised in 1954, it specifically prohibited “scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires, and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism.” Other parts of the code prohibited “scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes…” as well as “all lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations.” Almost overnight, horror comics that had been so popular in the fifties began to die off, having been stripped of both their favorite monsters and the essence of the genre. Countless stories, ready for publication, were destined for the file drawer instead.

The code was relaxed a bit in 1971, ushering in a blitz of monster and werewolf titles such as Frankenstein (The Monster Of…), Werewolf by Night, and catalog titles like Crypt of Shadows. Beware was another such Marvel effort, reprinting forgotten (and generally average) monster stories from the 1950s.
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  • 1
    #1
    Mar 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber  ·  A: Vic Carabotta, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, John Romita Sr.
    Reprints from Menace #8 (Oct 1953), Tales of Suspense #27 (Mar 1962), and Spellbound #16 (Aug 1953); “On the Trail of the Witch” reprinted from Tales of Suspense #27 (Mar 1962)
    1 copy for $7.00
  • 2
    #2
    May 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Stan Lee  ·  A: Gene Colan, John Forte, Mike Sekowsky, Bob Fujitani, Bill Benulis
    Reprints from Strange Tales #9 (Aug 1952) and #11 (Oct 1952), and Astonishing #56 (Dec 1956)
    1 copy for $5.00
  • 3
    #3
    Jul 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Stan Lee, Paul S. Newman  ·  A: Al Luster, Joe Maneely, George Tuska
    Reprints from Mystery Tales #14 (Aug 1953) and Adventures Into Terror #27 (Jan 1954)
    1 copy for $7.50
  • 4
    #4
    Sep 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Stan Lee  ·  A: Jay Scott Pike, Carmine Infantino, Larry Woromay, John Tartaglione
    Reprints from Adventures Into Weird Worlds #14 (Jan 1953)
    3 copies from $3.60
  • 5
    #5
    Nov 1973
    Cover: $0.20
    A: Vernon Henkel, Tony DiPreta, Al Eadeh, Manny Stallman
    1 copy for $5.00
  • 6
    #6
    Jan 1974
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Stan Lee  ·  A: Dick Ayers, George Tuska, Tony DiPreta
    Reprints from Mystery Tales #25 (Jan 1955) and Adventures Into Terror #14 (Winter 1952)
    1 copy for $7.00
  • 7
    #7
    Mar 1974
    Cover: $0.20
    W: Stan Lee, Gene Fawcette  ·  A: Al Eadeh, Sam Kweskin, Angelo Torres, Gene Fawcette
    Reprints from Mystic #30 (May 1954) and #59 (May 1957), Mystical Tales #7 (Jun 1957), and Marvel Tales (1st series) #126 (Aug 1954) and #138 (Sep 1955)
    2 copies from $6.50
  • 8
    #8
    May 1974
    Cover: $0.25
    A: Paul Reinman, Mort Lawrence
    Series continued in Tomb of Darkness #9; Final issue; “The Black Dungeon” reprinted from Mystic #2 (May 1951); “The Helping Hand” reprinted from Marvel Tales (Vol. 1) #129 (Dec 1954); “The Thing that Stalks Skull Valley!” reprinted from Mystic #37 (May 1955); “They Walk Thru Walls!” reprinted from Astonishing Tales #56 (Dec 1956)
    1 copy for $15.00