(June 1953)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Prime Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Propaganda!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett; Sol Brodsky ? (alterations)
- Inks
- Bill Everett; Sol Brodsky ? (alterations)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Everett inks and possible Brodsky alterations per Nick Caputo and Michael J. Vassallo.
Cover is signed with joke signature "O.Ule Nevagess" (Oh, you'll never guess... who did this).
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Like a Chicken without a Head!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- C-490
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A doctor recommends a surgical procedure whereby the head is removed from the body and the heart is kept beating by artificial means so as to lengthen the time available for surgery. No one listens to him though, and being tired of being mocked, he destroys his formula. As he removes his head from his torso, he says to himself "The world isn't ready for us."
- Reprints
-
in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (December 1973) - in Crazy Magazine (Marvel, 1973 series) #76 (July 1981) [same art but new dialogue and lettering]
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Indexer Notes
Stan Lee credit from Ger Apeldoorn via atlastales.com
Rudolph's Racket
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- C-450
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An innkeeper keeps two large wolves in the cellar which devour curious guests so he can claim their valuables.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (December 1973)
-
in Thor e i Vendicatori (Editoriale Corno, 1975 series) #167 (6 Settembre 1977)
-
The Upside-Down Room
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (illustration)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- C-536
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers
Propaganda
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-698
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (December 1973)
- in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #84 (30 Giugno 1976)
-
- Keywords
- anti-communism
Indexer Notes
The same story, with the same title, but with different art, in Journey Into Mystery #80.
Anti-communism story (note by Tom Lammers)
The Executioner
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- C-500
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A story told from the point of view of a turkey on Thanksgiving day.
- Reprints
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #26 (January 1974)
-
Time Marches On!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-543
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man attempts to build a clock that can run forever by repairing itself, but no one understands why and mocks him, until he runs out of time and the undertaker pulls by his clothes to reveal he had replaced his inner organs with clock mechanism.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 (December 1973)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Propaganda!
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1.
Like a Chicken without a Head!
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2.
Rudolph's Racket
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3.
The Upside-Down Room
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4.
Propaganda
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5.
The Executioner
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6.
Time Marches On!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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