(October 1952)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
All information on this issue from www.atlastales.com.
The Witch Woman!/It Waits in the Box!/The Thing in the Graveyard!/The Bookworm!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
Witch Woman
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- A-909
- Synopsis
- A witch curses her killer with the stipulation that her spirit will enter the body of each maiden that his male descendants fall in love with.
Indexer Notes
Infantino pencils per Michael J. Vassallo's blog:
http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2013/04/carmine-infantino-1925-201…
Barry inks per Jim Vadeboncour Jr via atlas tales: https://www.atlastales.com/issue/1363
The Thread
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- A-786
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Matt Anderson; Midget Morgan/Count Morgan; Dr. Waynne
- Synopsis
- The mysterious death of a scientist reveals a mystical device and leads to the death of a centuries-old Italian count.
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #18 -
in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #21 (January 1955) [as "The Cylinder"] which is reprinted - in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #3 ([October] 2010)
- in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #11 (September 1960) which is reprinted
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #73 (October 1961) which is reprinted
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #99 (December 1963)
- in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #151 ([circa 1974 - 1975]), #184 ([circa 1979 - 1980])
-
Indexer Notes
The events of this story are dated January 8, 1952.
The Thing in the Graveyard
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Keller (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Keller (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-824
- Synopsis
- A man marries a woman for ten thousand dollars in insurance money coming from her dead son, but she buys a monument with the money and when he tries to kill her, the monument strangles him.
It Waits in the Box
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- A-758
- Synopsis
- An atomic blast creates a horrible monster immune to guns and poison gas so they try to dump it in the sea but curious sailors open the crate against orders.
Indexer Notes
Art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]) April 2010.
The Bookworms
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Hank Chapman (signed)
- Pencils
- Eddie Robbins (signed)
- Inks
- Eddie Robbins (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-985
- Synopsis
- A man murders a relative for her inheritance but she leaves him nothing but an old book. He sells the book to a dealer for six hundred dollars who neglects to tell him that there are thousand dollar bills throughout the pages.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Witch Woman!/It Waits in the Box!/The Thing in the Graveyard!/The Bookworm!
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1.
Witch Woman
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2.
The Thread
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3.
The Thing in the Graveyard
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4.
It Waits in the Box
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5.
The Bookworms
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- Katie
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Per Sandell
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