Werewolf by Night #22
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWerewolf by Night #22 (October 1974) marks the first appearance of Atlas — Steve Rand, a disfigured former actor turned masked avenger — making it a modest but genuine character-introduction issue within Marvel's Bronze Age horror line. The issue is part of the crucial early run where writer Doug Moench and penciler Don Perlin established their chemistry on the title, a pairing that would soon produce one of Marvel's most enduring character debuts (Moon Knight, ten issues later in #32). As a single-villain, done-in-two story bridging #22 and #23, it exemplifies the serialized horror-thriller storytelling that kept the Werewolf by Night series commercially and creatively viable through its 43-issue run.
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By the time issue #22 hit stands in October 1974, Doug Moench had been writing the series since #20, with Don Perlin having taken over penciling duties from issue #17 onward after being recruited to Marvel by editor-in-chief Roy Thomas, who had noticed Perlin's horror work for DC. The issue sits immediately after the events of Giant-Size Werewolf #2, reflecting Marvel's mid-70s strategy of expanding its horror titles into oversized companion formats. Roy Thomas was still editor-in-chief at this precise moment — the Marvel Fandom database notes that issue #24, two issues later, would be the final one under Thomas's tenure as EIC.
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- Issue title: 'The Face of the Fiend!' — cover-dated October 1974, published by Marvel Comics.
- First appearance of Atlas (Steve Rand): a former movie actor horribly disfigured in an on-set accident who adopts a masked identity and begins murdering those he holds responsible, starting with producer Simon Kolb.
- This Atlas is a distinct character from Erik Josten and Dallas Riorden, two unrelated Marvel characters who later bore the same code name.
- Written by Doug Moench, penciled by Don Perlin, with a cover by Gil Kane, Dan Adkins, and John Romita Sr.
- The story arc continues directly into issue #23, where the Atlas conflict is resolved.
- This issue is part of the unbroken Moench/Perlin creative run that began with #20 and lasted through the series finale at #43 — a run that would later produce Moon Knight's debut in #32.
- Don Perlin joined Marvel in 1974 at the invitation of Roy Thomas, chose Werewolf by Night over the Morbius feature because it was a monthly rather than a bi-monthly book.
- The story was reprinted internationally, including in Marvel UK's Dracula Lives #56 (1975) and in Scandinavian and Finnish editions, and was later collected domestically in Werewolf By Night: The Complete Collection Vol. 2.
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Reprinted in Varulv på natten #4/1975 (1975), Dracula Lives #56 (1975), Frankenstein & Ihmissusi #1/1976 (1976), Dracula #17 (1978), Essential Werewolf by Night #2 (2007), Werewolf by Night Omnibus #[nn] (2015), Werewolf by Night: The Complete Collection #2 (2018), Werewolf by Night - Classic Collection #1 (2020), Marvel Masterworks: Werewolf by Night #3 (2024), Λυκάνθρωπος [Werewolf] #4
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