(December 1952)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- On-sale Date
- 1952-09-17
- 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)
Issue Notes
On sale date of September 17, 1952 from the on stand date reported in the Comic Magazine Publishing Report (George W. Dougherty, 1942 series), #129 (October 1952). Also reported as being a monthly comic and November dated issue.
On sale date of August 28, 1952 and cover date of December 1952 as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 5, registration number B381722.
On sale date of August 28, 1952 and cover date of December 1952 as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 5, registration number B381722.
The Hands of Death!/The Man Who Talked to Rats!/The Visitor!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Keywords
- skeletons
Indexer Notes
Colors credit confirmed by Goldberg.
Don't Try to Outsmart the Devil!
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-144
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An evil man makes a bargain with Satan that his heart will never stop beating so that he will live forever, but Satan merely arranges it so that his heart continues to beat after his body has rotted away.
- Reprints
-
in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (February 1974) [black and white] which is reprinted
-
in Indexer Notes
Kane attribution from Infantino per Michael J. Vassallo:
http://timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com/2013/04/carmine-infantino-1925-201…
The Visitor
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-60
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man is convinced that controlling visitors exist all around him and when he is confronted by mist he goes off his rocker.
- Reprints
- in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (January 1975)
-
Sugar is--Death!
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-113
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #17 (August 1954) [as "Sweet Death"] which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Illustrations from a Hy Rosen story
The Hands of Death
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Inks
- Abe Simon (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Job Number
- B-62
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A woman's car breaks down in an area where women have been strangled and she takes shelter in a nearby house. She is admitted by a bundled figure that she abruptly assumes is the strangler. She screams, and another man breaks in the door, but the new man on the scene is actually the stranger. The bundled person tosses aside his disguise and kills the strangler, apologizes to the woman for frightening her, and explains that the strangler had murdered his wife and so he had disguised himself as bait.
- Reprints
- in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (January 1975)
-
The Man Who Talked to Rats
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-164
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man comes across a man who talks to rats in an alley and makes a deal with him to kill his uncle so he will inherit his money. The weird guy sends his rats into the estate to chew up the old guy and the nephew both.
- Reprints
- in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (January 1975)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Hands of Death!/The Man Who Talked to Rats!/The Visitor!
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1.
Don't Try to Outsmart the Devil!
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2.
The Visitor
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3.
Sugar is--Death!
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4.
The Hands of Death
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5.
The Man Who Talked to Rats
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Bill Devine
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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