(Winter 1952)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume:
1
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
quarterly
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 Hands!/Hex!/They're Driving Me Crazy!/The Little People! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Sol Brodsky (?); Christopher Rule (?)
Inks:
?
Colors:
Stan Goldberg
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Colors: Stan Goldberg states himself.


The Little People (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils:
Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks:
Tony DiPreta (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-555

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #6

The Hands! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Gene Colan (signed)
Inks:
Gene Colan (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-511

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Monsters Unleashed (Marvel, 1973 series) #4

Indexer Notes

Cover story


The Three Doors (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
9347

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series ) #8 (January 1952)

How Mini-Gym Turns Plant Drip into Success Dynamo (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
C. C. Beck
Inks:
C. C. Beck
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Indexer Notes

Joe Bonomo advertisement includes a half page of sequential panel art.


Hex! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
George Tuska
Inks:
George Tuska
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-480?

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #6

They're Driving Me Crazy! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks:
Ernie Bache
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-545

Content Information

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:
Reprint Note before Migration:
  • in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #28

The Secret of Treasure Cave (Table of Contents)

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Ray Thompson
Inks:
Ray Thompson
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Characters:
Spike; Gray Shadow

Indexer Notes

Back cover.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 0. The Hands!/Hex!/They're Driving Me Crazy!/The Little People!
  2. 1. The Little People
  3. 2. The Hands!
  4. 3. The Three Doors
  5. 4. How Mini-Gym Turns Plant Drip into Success Dynamo
  6. 5. Hex!
  7. 6. They're Driving Me Crazy!
  8. 7. The Secret of Treasure Cave
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Bruno Andreacchi
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Per Sandell
  • Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
  • Bill Borre
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  • Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue