(June 1952)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Current Detective Stories, Inc.
- Brand:
- Atlas [wireframe globe]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- in Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (January 1974)
When the Vampire Calls!
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Maneely
- Inks:
- Joe Maneely
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-251
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A village suspects a beautiful young woman of being a vampire but her lover tries to warn her to leave before the mob arrives and discovers that it is her brother who is the drinker of human blood. She tries to prevent her brother from killing him, but the brother turns on her and they both perish.
The Dark Passage
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ogden Whitney
- Inks:
- Ogden Whitney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-243
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A convicted killer believes that he has gone to the infirmary and escaped in the ambulance when the ghosts take him to his fate as he has really died in the electric chair.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (April 1974)
The Sacred Tiger
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- 9987
Content Information
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #28 (March 1954) [as "The Bad Omen!"]
What Walter Saw
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ed Goldfarb
- Inks:
- Ed Goldfarb (?)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-176?
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction; Horror
The Snake!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- George Roussos
- Inks:
- George Roussos
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-233
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
The Old Hag
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Wessler (?)
- Pencils:
- Bernard Krigstein
- Inks:
- Bernard Krigstein
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-199
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
When the Vampire Calls!
-
2.
The Dark Passage
-
3.
The Sacred Tiger
-
4.
What Walter Saw
-
5.
The Snake!
-
6.
The Old Hag
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Jim Walls
- Bill Borre
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Jim Walls
- Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
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