(April 1953)

Marvel, 1952 Series
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Volume:
1
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
monthly
Indicia Publisher:
Prime Publications, Inc.
Brand:
Atlas [wireframe globe]
Editing:
Stan Lee
Format:
4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series

Issue Notes

job numbers from atlastales.com

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Kill, Clown, Kill! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Bill Everett
Inks:
Bill Everett
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Kill, Clown, Kill! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Harry Anderson
Inks:
Harry Anderson
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
C-106

Content Information

Genre:
horror; crime
Synopsis:
A clown kills his clown rival so he can have his fame and his girlfriend. He tries to find a plastic surgeon to alter his looks so he will appear as the dead man, but fails. The police track him back to circus where he is shot resisting arrest. He dies at the foot of the woman he professes his love to as he realizes she is blind.

I Was Locked In a Haunted House! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Stan Lee
Pencils:
Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks:
Joe Maneely (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
C-78

Content Information

Genre:
horror
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Indexer Notes

plot is similar to the Ditko story in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #42


Planet of Death (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Howard Post
Inks:
Howard Post
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
C-66

Content Information

Genre:
science fiction
Synopsis:
Aliens find Earth air poisonous so they observe a man haranguing a crowd about flying saucers through a telescope.

The Twins (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
C-102

The Witch of Landor (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Larry Woromay
Inks:
Larry Woromay
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
C-61

Content Information

Genre:
horror
Synopsis:
A duke forces a witch to call up his ancestor so that he can ask the ghost where the castle's hidden treasure is. When the witch does as she is bidden, the ghost replies that the treasure location was a secret even in his time and that the duke will have to seek further back. The witch calls up several spirits in succession without the knowledge of the treasure's location until she calls up a gorilla which strangles the duke.
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The Gal Who Talked Too Much (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
C-259

Content Information

Genre:
horror
Synopsis:
A (mad?) scientist looking for 'volunteers' to spend the rest of their lives buried in a time capsule gives two sleeping pills to a husband and his blabber-mouth wife, lying to the both of them that they can be rid of each other if they administer the pill to their spouse. While they are asleep, he transfers both of them to the time capsule.
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Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Kill, Clown, Kill!
  2. 2. I Was Locked In a Haunted House!
  3. 3. Planet of Death
  4. 4. The Twins
  5. 5. The Witch of Landor
  6. 6. The Gal Who Talked Too Much
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