(May 1951)

Marvel, 1949 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Leading Comic Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sol Brodsky ?
Inks
Christopher Rule ?
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?

Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Possible Rule inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Sol Brodsky.

Arson Squad (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sol Brodsky (signed)
Inks
George Klein
Colors
?
Letters
Jon D'Agostino ?

Job Number
8086

Indexer Notes

Klein inks per Nick Caputo, December 2019. Previous indexer credited Brodsky.

Murder in the Bighouse (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ed Moore
Inks
Ed Moore ?; George Klein ?
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese ?

Job Number
2939

It Happened in Prussia! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
7956

The Talking Corpse (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
SL-5317
First Line of Dialogue or Text
As the black fog began to rise slowly, the swirling shadows began to take shape.
Genre
crime

[Statement of Ownership] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Appears on second page of text story.

Stan Lee listed as editor; Frank Torpey as managing editor; Robert Solomon as business manager.

Shanghaied (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler
Pencils
Jay Scott Pike (signed)
Inks
George Klein
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
8023

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 18, No.5, May 2007.

Klein inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Pike.

Cop On the Beat! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Larry Lieber (signed)
Inks
George Klein; Larry Lieber ?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
7766

Ace Renard, King of the Bookies (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Romita (signed as Romita)
Inks
Les Zakarin (signed as Zakarin)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
8049
Genre
crime

Indexer Notes

Art credits both confirmed by Zakarin in interview with Jim Amash in Alter Ego #27 (August, 2003), and he states that he added Romita's signature to his own on the splash page, reprinted partially in this issue of Alter Ego.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Arson Squad
  3. 2. Murder in the Bighouse
  4. 3. It Happened in Prussia!
  5. 4. The Talking Corpse
  6. 5. [Statement of Ownership]
  7. 6. Shanghaied
  8. 7. Cop On the Beat!
  9. 8. Ace Renard, King of the Bookies
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Mark Bowen
  • Nick Caputo
  • Craig Delich
  • Nuno Miranda
  • Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
  • Per Sandell