“The Altar of the Damned!”
Businessman Simon Garth is kidnapped by one of his employees and taken into the swamp to be turned into a zombie.
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About this issue
Zombie #1 (1973) is issue #1 of Marvel's Zombie (1973–1975), with a cover date of June 1973. Written by Steve Gerber, Stan Lee, Kit Pearson and others and drawn by Dick Ayers, John Buscema, Bill Everett and others. It has the first appearance (also flashback) of Gyps, Layla and The Zombie, and the first appearance of Brian Stockwood, Detective Sam Jagger and Donna Garth.
Creators
- Writers
- Steve Gerber, Stan Lee, Kit Pearson, Tom Sutton, Roy Thomas, Marv Wolfman
- Pencillers
- Dick Ayers, John Buscema, Bill Everett, Pablo Marcos, Tom Palmer, John Romita, Syd Shores, Tom Sutton
- Letterers
- Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Tom Orzechowski, Joe Rosen, Tom Sutton
- Cover artist
- Boris Vallejo
Characters
- First appearance (also flashback) Gyps (Marvel, Tales of the Zombie)
- First appearance Brian Stockwood (from Marvel Zombie)
- First appearance Detective Sam Jagger (from Marvel Zombie)
- First appearance Donna Garth (from Zombie, Marvel)
- First appearance (also flashback) Layla (Marvel, Tales of the Zombie)
- First appearance (also flashback) The Zombie (Marvel, Simon Garth)
- Simon Garth (The Zombie) origin
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