(February 1953)

Marvel, 1952 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1952-10-24
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Some job numbers from atlastales.com. On-sale date from 1952 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Fright (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
Inks
Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?; typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Fright (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee [early- to mid-career])
Pencils
Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
Inks
Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
B-434
First Line of Dialogue or Text
No! No! Please!!
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Kurt; Drake; Emma
Synopsis
A cruel asylum keeper is drugged by his assistant as he and the asylum keeper's wife wish to marry. The drug stupefies the man so the judge grants the divorce on grounds of madness and places him into the asylum where the inmates are glad to welcome him after being on the receiving end of so many beatings.
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The Big Shoes (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
? (illustration)
Inks
? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
B-450
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Zombie! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
Inks
Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
B-397
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Deep shadows of night hide many things in a native village of Haiti,
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Blackie Nolan; Larsen
Synopsis
In a Haitian village, a criminal named Blackie becomes afraid for his life when a man named Larson he framed for a crime has learned how to raise the dead and control the reanimated corpses as zombies. After learning how to raise the dead he tricks Larson into meeting him in the grave yard and tries to raise a zombie to kill Larson. But to Blackie's horror, he has risen the zombie that Larson previously raised himself. Instead of following Blackie's orders, the zombie turns on his would be master, with Larson watching in glee at his enemies fate.
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Condemned! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler
Pencils
C. L. Hartman (signed as C.H.)
Inks
C. L. Hartman (signed as C.H.)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
B-489
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencils and inks credit from Chris Brown (December 21, 2005). Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2009.

Innocent Bystander (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Dick Briefer (signed as Dick Briefer)
Inks
Dick Briefer (signed as Dick Briefer)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
B-349
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A woman buys an antique statue that murders her in her sleep.
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Fright
  2. 1. Fright
  3. 2. The Big Shoes
  4. 3. Zombie!
  5. 4. Condemned!
  6. 5. Innocent Bystander
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Bill Borre
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Dan Kocher
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore