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Curtis Magazines was a short lived imprint of Marvel Comics that existed from 1971 to 1975. Its name was derived from Marvel's distributor, Curtis Circulation, and Marvel did not appear anywhere on the cover or indicia. The imprint published 68-page black and white magazines that, due to being oversized, had no need to carry the Comics Code Authority seal in them. In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ... Jump to: navigation, search Marvel Comics, NYSE: MVL (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... This article is about the term as used in media and computing; for more specific uses, see Black and White. ... The seal of the Comics Code Authority, which appears on the covers of approved comic books. ...


Marvel took advantage of this situation to produce stories for a more mature audience, featuring mild profanity, partial nudity and more realistic violence. Most titles were anthologies, many of them featuring creator-owned material alongside regular Marvel characters. Sword and sorcery, science fiction, horror and crime fiction were the most prominent themes. This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ...


Titles published by the imprint included Savage Sword of Conan, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Dracula Lives, among others. Jump to: navigation, search – The Nemedian Chronicles, as quoted in The Phoenix on the Sword (1932), by Robert E. Howard. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tomb of Dracula is a horror comic book published by Marvel Comics from April 1972 to August 1979. ...


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