(June 1951)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume:
2
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
bi-monthly
Indicia Publisher:
Current Detective Stories, Inc.
Editing:
Stan Lee
Format:
4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series

The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Carl Burgos ? (main image and panels)
Inks:
Carl Burgos ? (main image and panels)
Colors:
Stan Goldberg
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Colors: Stan Goldberg states himself.


The Brain! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Russ Heath
Inks:
Russ Heath
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
8168

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974)
  • in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #1 (December 1993)

Indexer Notes

Follow-up story in Adventures into Terror #6.


Hands of Murder (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Mike Sekowsky
Inks:
Christopher Rule
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
8216

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense
Synopsis:
A young woman fears that her late sister has come back from the grave to kill her.
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974)

Vampire Ship (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
8223

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #5 (June 1951) [originally titled "Mantrap!"]

Indexer Notes

spot illustration of the vampire


The Torture Room (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Don Rico ?
Pencils:
Don Rico
Inks:
Don Rico
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
8165

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 (July 1974)

Vampire Brats (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Allen Bellman
Inks:
Allen Bellman (?)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
8190

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense
Synopsis:
A nurse gets a job at an infants' home where all the babies seem just a little different.
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (July 1974)

The Thing in the Water (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
7881

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense
Synopsis:
A fish enthusiast encounters a menacing "water monster" from Atlantis when he brings home a new breed of guppies.
Reprints:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (September 1974)

Indexer Notes

The monster explains that Atlanteans mutated from humans to water creatures when their continent sank beneath the sea.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 0. The Torture Room!/The Living Brain!/Pawn of the Vampire!/The Thing in the Water!
  2. 1. The Brain!
  3. 2. Hands of Murder
  4. 3. Vampire Ship
  5. 4. The Torture Room
  6. 5. Vampire Brats
  7. 6. The Thing in the Water
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Craig Delich
  • Jim Walls
  • Per Sandell
  • Ethan Hoddes
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Jim Walls
  • Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue