(June 1952)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- 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
- Current Detective Stories Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
When the Vampire Calls!/The Dark Passage!/The Old Hag!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett; Carl Burgos (see notes)
- Inks
- Bill Everett; Carl Burgos (see notes)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Previous indexers credited both Bill Everett and Carl Burgos as possible artists, but Nick Caputo suspects Burgos may have only provided some corrections.
When the Vampire Calls!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-251
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (January 1974) [retitled] - The reprint title for this story in Dracula Lives #4 is "When Calls the Vampire!".
-
The Dark Passage
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Inks
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-243
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- 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
- in Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (April 1974)
-
The Sacred Tiger
text story / 1.67 pages
- Job Number
- 9987
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The man who sat back in the big, comfortable leather chair, puffed contentedly, thoughtfully at his pipe.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #28 (March 1954) [as "The Bad Omen!"]
-
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Filing date: October 1, 1951.
Appears on second page of "The Sacred Tiger" text story.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
When the Vampire Calls!/The Dark Passage!/The Old Hag!
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1.
When the Vampire Calls!
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2.
The Dark Passage
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3.
The Sacred Tiger
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4.
[no title indexed]
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5.
What Walter Saw
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6.
The Snake!
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7.
The Old Hag
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- Mark Bowen
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Kenneth English
- Ethan Hoddes
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Jason Sacks
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
- Jim Walls
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