(April 1952)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Current Detective Stories, Inc.
- Brand:
- Atlas [black & white]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
The Dark Dungeon
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Hank Chapman
- Pencils:
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks:
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 9788 or 9738
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A man keeps mastiffs half-starved in the dungeon so that he can press a button to release them in the event thieves enter his house. His nephew drugs him and wheels his wheelchair into their enclosure so that he will get his money when the dogs finish him. The man's ghost comes back and does the same thing to the nephew.
Second Floor Rear!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bernard Krigstein
- Inks:
- Bernard Krigstein
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 9863
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A landlady rents an apartment to straw men.
The Flowers of Evil
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- 9702
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
-
in Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #26 (August 1953) [as "Bloom of Death"]
-
Indexer Notes
story has 2 spot illustrations
Ghouls Rush In
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number:
- 9471
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A body snatcher is thwarted in his efforts by cemetery rats that chew through coffins in order to pull the bodies into their warrens.
Indexer Notes
Greg Gatlin notes: Signed R.A. The first story for Atlas by Dick Ayers, pencils, inks and lettering. Delivered to Stan Lee on 10/12/51.
Off With His Head
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Manny Stallman
- Inks:
- Manny Stallman (?)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 9821
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- An executioner is frightened to death when someone places a mirror in the bottom of his head basket so that he sees his own head in there.
Talking Corpse
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 9806
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- When a medium is exposed as a fake, she shoots her client, but it turns out that she had more ability than she thought she did.
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