(Winter 1952)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-09-26
- 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 as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 5, registration number B385241.
The Little People
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-555
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- carnival barker; Silas Lewis; Laura Lewis; Lon Lewis; Tim Lewis
- Synopsis
- A dwarf surgeon's family is held at the mercy of a cruel carnival barker when the surgeon is arrested for practicing without a license and the barker offers the judge to provide them with work at the circus, sparing them jail. When the barker loses his temper and kills one of the children, the surgeon cuts off his head and exchanges it with that of a dog, exhibiting him as a freak.
- Reprints
-
in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (January 1974) which is reprinted -
in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #39 (septembre 1974) -
in Das Monster von Frankenstein (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #24 (Dezember 1975)
-
The Hands!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (signed)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-511
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Gary Birch
- Synopsis
- A man with a pair of claws for hands pays for an operation to give him normal hands and on his twenty-fifth birthday, turns into a lobster with a pair of human hands.
- Reprints
- in Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (February 1974)
-
in Horror (Dečje novine, 1986 series) #13 (April 1988.)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover story
The Three Doors
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 9347
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Randy Scott (psychologist); Miriam Scott (wife); strange little man (the Devil); Parkington (attorney)
- Synopsis
- A man makes a deal with the Devil and then tries to outwit him, unsuccessfully.
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #8 (January 1952)
-
Hex!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-480?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Silas Blackwell; John-Johns (foreman); physician
- Synopsis
- A native foreman poisons his cruel boss for his beatings of the laborers but the boss promises to turn over a new leaf if he is given the antidote. The boss is led to a group of trees and he carves an 'X' into one of the healing trees. When he recovers, he goes back to being sadistic, so the foreman poisons him again. The boss just laughs and kills the foreman, but when he returns to the trees, he finds the foreman has had his revenge from beyond the grave for they are all marked with an 'X'.
- Reprints
- in Die Gruft von Graf Dracula (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #27
- in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #6 (January 1974) which is reprinted
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #40 (octobre 1974)
-
They're Driving Me Crazy!
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-545
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dr. Henry Johnson; Dr. Milldale; Paul Erskine (assistant): Millie Johnson (wife); green-skinned man
- Synopsis
- This story postulates that the people of Earth are in reality the slaves of beings from another dimension who control all thought that people are allowed to have. When an occasion savant arises that produces knowledge the masters don't want people to have, that individual is made nonexistent.
- Reprints
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #28 (June 1974)
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Hands!/Hex!/They're Driving Me Crazy!/The Little People!
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1.
The Little People
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2.
The Hands!
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3.
The Three Doors
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4.
How Mini-Gym Turns Plant Drip into Success Dynamo
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5.
Hex!
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6.
They're Driving Me Crazy!
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7.
The Secret of Treasure Cave
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bruno Andreacchi
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Bill Devine
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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