TOWER OF SHADOWSGooP EVENING, TRAVELER... LOST YOUR WAY IN THE BARK? THAT'S NOT UNCOMMON IN THESE PARTS/.--- ME? My FRIENDS CALL ME £/GGER---FOR OBVIOUS REASONS! YOU KNOW, YOU REMING ME OF SOMEONE ELSE WHO PASSED By HERE THE OTHER NIGHT..-IN A HURRY, THEY WERE! IT SEEMS THERE WAS SOMEWHERE THEY HAP TO GO... SOMETHING THEY HAP To Po... ANP OF COURSE, THEY HAD To po It a EDITED BY STAN LEE « WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY STERANKO- LETTERED BY SAM ROSEN TOWER OF SHADOWS is published by MAGAZINE MANAGEMENT CO., INC, OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published bi-monthly. Copyright © 1969 by Magazine Manogement Co., Inc., Marvel Comics Stes All rights reserved 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Vol. 1, No. 1, September, 1969 issue. Price 15¢ per copy. No similarity betwaen any o the names, characters, persons anU/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is Intended, and any such similarity. which may exist is purely coincidental. Printed in the U.S.A, by World Color Press, Inc., Sporta Ilinois 62286. Subscription rate $2.00 and $2.50 Canada for 12 issues including postage. Foreign subscriptions $3.75. ‘’ “THE LONG, HARROWING DRIVE HADMAPE THE MARIE WONDERED HOWIT (FROMITS BASE THE COUPLE EvGy! NOW, AN ICY WINP BLEW COULD EVER HAVE BEEN CLIMB SEEMEP LIKE ACROSS THE WATER, Wier eeey, TO THEM BUILT, OR WHY THE WIND HAD. AN ETERNITY AS IT AS THEY BEGAN TO ASCENP THE STEPS CUT NOT TOPPLED ITFROM ITS , WOUND AN ANGULAR, INTO "THE VERY FACE OF he BLEAK ROCK! LOFTY AND FORLORN PERCH! PATH EVER UPWARD.’ MY ANc, Agove. | THEM: SHADOW =| HOUSE WAITED! CAN'T CATCH MY BREATH! eS | WAIT! DON'T TOO WINDY! WhIVID WE | RT bower Lie! HAVE TO COME SO LATE?Z, Mice : PLEASE,” GIVE ME THOSE “TA KEYS, FOOL/ ITMAKES “1 | AFRAID! INSIDE, LOU FOWLER STRUCK A MATCH, BLINKEP AS HIS EYES ADJUSTED “To THE GLoom/ YES, |T WAS EXACTLY THE SAME AS WHEN HE LAST SAW IT! IT WAS ALWAYS THE SAME! A CHILL SWEPT ALONG HIS SPINE UNTILTHE HAIR AT THE BACK OF HIS NECK STOOD UP/ THE LIGHT EBBED, CAUSING A FLICKERING PLAY. or a me Tea MADE THE VERY WALLS SEEM TO COME..-ALIVES SHAPOW HOUSE HAP BEEN eT EY. WAM "FUE HALL, LIKE ALL THE ROOMS AT SHADOW HOUSE, HARBORED A PROFUSION OF ANTIQUITIES THE OLD A N HAD, SPENT A LIFETIME COLLECTING/ AN OPP, ALMOST EERE, COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEA FILLE? EVERY NOOK AN? CRANKY.LITTLE JerK! YOU MEAN WE'RE STUCK IN THIS BEAUTIFUL WE'LL KEEP LOOKING IF IT ! ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT! STOP BABBLING; YOU TAME MOUSE! THERE MUST BE A MILLION CANDLES IN Wes ALL WEEK! HEAR ME: “THIS DUMP.’ START LIGHTING THEM... 2/GHT EVERY — THE OLD MIAN KEPT/T SOME- ONE IN THE HOUSE/ MAKE THIS CRUMBLING OLD | (Mie gee peal fe WHERE? we! by FINP rie WE ie EES HAVE TO RID THE HOURE MUSEUM OF HORRORS LOOK LIKE A ROMAN CANDLE’ WE'LL NEED A LOTTA LIGHT IF WE'RE GONNA FIND /7/ 1 HATEP $0, IT'S GOT To BE HERE-.- HIM! JUST | | SOMEWHERE IN THe HOUSE... LOOKING HIPPEN!S AND ILL FIND IT YOU, WHEN AT HIM IF IT'S THE Baer THING I COULD HAVE TURNED _ 1 EVER po MARRIEP. ME OFF... MAN? iE ME ’ "THEN, THEY BEGANTO SEARCH! MARIE PLUNGED INTO EVERY ARK CORNER, PRIVEN BY HER PASSION FOR WEALTH. CONTINUED AFTER NEXT PAGELOU BEGAN CAUTIOUSLY, MOVING HE REMEMBERED HOW THE HOUSE JHE HAD LAIN AWAKE NIGHTS, HEAR- SLOWLY, OFTEN LOOKING BEHINPASIF HAD TERRIFIED HIM ASA Boy’ THE ING STRANGE SOLWES; SPENT PATS EXPECTING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WEEK HIS MOTHER WAS SICK, HE j TO APPEAR..- SILENTLY, SUPPENLY.’ HAP COME TO STAY WITH HIS UNCLE: B pes | | 0) Pe ae NOW, HE WAS Wor HE HADN'T LIKED THE PLAN, BUT HE HAP AGREEP HE MANAGED AN APPROVING AX DOZEN ANXIOUS TO DIS- WITH MARIE! D/LA'T HE ALWAYS! THE MONE? SMILE TO BOLSTER HIS HEARTBEATS COVER THE SECRETS WOUL? BUY HER THINGS, MAKE HER HAPPY. MAKE CONFIPENCE...ANP MOUNT- LATER, HE BEGAN OF SHADOW HOUSE! HER LOVE HIM MORE! YES, HE HAP TO FIND IT! iia ED THE WAITING STAIRWAY... TO SARVE? ch ae ce 7% pant A EI YS See Rh Wak] kh Poach SOR. NNN od hye | Bie HAS! CONSCIENCE... GUILTY CONSCIENCE!\, AN! L'VE GOT, THE KEYS/ THe HEAVY MUSTY SMELL ASSAULTED THEM AS THEY’ THRUST THE CANDELA in eae : BOOKS! MORE TI Wari, Look! He STUDIED... WITEH- Veo pee | ‘ r BOOKS! _Allll] | CRAFT! LOOK AT 7H/S ONE-..ASOUT a FINPING A PATH --- THU T7ME, ih -¢ I} | Tn Se SELES , * os | 5 ah = lan : ‘ : : aN ere ( i oN be BS AS THE FOWLE "TIL WE FINP THE MONEY! IT'S My...OUR FUTURE!! “THEN, ALL BY ITSELF, THE Hsing a y \| DOOR BEGAN To OPEN MU 1 be «FIRST; JUST A FRACTION, THEN, IT CREAKEP WIDER.» NOS! I WONT GOIN I WON'T! ME WANTS ME TO! BUT--BUT...I WON'T! GET HOLP OF YOURSELF! HOW YOU EVER HAP THE BACK- BONE To GIVE HIM A SHOVE--- HES DEAD... | BURIED! WITHOUT ANOTHER WORT, MARIE FORCE? LOU ACROSS THE BECKONING POOR'S THRESHOLP..- SHE SA LOOK ATIT/ IT'S | | JEWELS! GoLp!|| DO You SEE/A HE Foun? IT! HE ALL OURS/ WE'RE! | DIAMONDS! /TS| | QUEEN! WE'LL 4 A BE LIVING LIKE FOUND (7% RICH, LOU! WE'RE MIULIONAIRES! ROYALTY! LIKE " A KING AND A FILTHY RICH £/? QUEEN! WHY IT'S ALL HERE... LIKE 1 TOLD. You / DON'T YOU SAY Meer SOMETHING ? LOOK AT ME--- IM A QUEENS =Uy LEADS To--THE I8T4 CENTURY--THE FRENCH REVOLUTION-- PEOPLE LOOKING AT U/S., “YELLING FOR THE KING...QUEEN/ No ONE EVER HEARD OF THE FOWLERS AGAIN! THE CANDLES THAT LIT THE STRANGE GOTHIC HALLWAYS HAVE LONG SINCE BURNT OUT/ NOW, ONE 1 THE SOUND ~. THE es CAN BE HEARD. f “BHAD OW HOUSE IS DARK ONCE MORE / 700 BAP ABOUT THOSE TWO, ISN'T IT? BUT, THAT'S WHAT THEY GET FOR LOSING THEIR HEAOS OVER MONEY THAT WAYS FOL RUN ALONG NOW---THAT'S ENOUGH STORIES FOR ONE NIGHT; ANP OL’ PIGGER'S GOT WORK TO PO! WHAT AINE? OF WORK? PONT ASK! BELIEVE HE---PON'T ASK.--£