(June 1951)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Current Detective Stories Inc.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Atlas Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 2023 series) #1 ([November] 2023)
-
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
The Brain!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 8168
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A warped Nazi scientist, sentenced to death, has an assistant dig up his body, remove his head and keep it alive in his laboratory. He makes plans for world domination.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974)
- in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993)
- in Atlas Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 2023 series) #1 ([November] 2023)
-
Indexer Notes
Follow-up story in Adventures into Terror #6.
Hands of Murder
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 8216
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A young woman fears that her late sister has come back from the grave to kill her.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974) which is reprinted
- in Atlas Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 2023 series) #1 ([November] 2023)
-
in Vampire Ship
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 8223
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Journey into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1950 series) #5 (June 1951) [as "Vampire Ship"]
-
Indexer Notes
spot illustration of the vampire
The Torture Room
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- 8165
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Siegfried Mauller (Nazi commandant of concentration camp)
- Synopsis
- The Nazi commander of a concentration camp is captured by the prisoners and placed in their secret torture room.
- Reprints
- in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (July 1974)
- in Atlas Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 2023 series) #1 ([November] 2023)
-
Vampire Brats
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 8190
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A nurse gets a job at an infants' home where all the babies seem just a little different.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974)
- in Atlas Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 2023 series) #1 ([November] 2023)
-
The Thing in the Water
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 7881
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A fish enthusiast encounters a menacing "water monster" from Atlantis when he brings home a new breed of guppies.
- Reprints
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (September 1974)
- in Atlas Comics Library (Fantagraphics, 2023 series) #1 ([November] 2023)
-
Indexer Notes
The monster explains that Atlanteans mutated from humans to water creatures when their continent sank beneath the sea.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!
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1.
The Brain!
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2.
Hands of Murder
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3.
Vampire Ship
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4.
The Torture Room
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5.
Vampire Brats
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6.
The Thing in the Water
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Craig Delich
- Kenneth English
- Gregory Fischer
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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