(January 1953)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-10-27
- 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 B388844.
Tarantula!/The Woman Who Wasn't!/Jaws of Death!/He Kept Him in Stiches!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
The Woman Who Wasn't
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Job Number
- B-546
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In a wealthy land beneath Greece, descendants of Medusa deal with thieves by incorporating them into their snake-heads.
- Reprints
-
in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (June 1973)
-
The Lion's Mouth
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- B-641
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A lion-tamer hates his wife and so he trains the lion that he puts his head in to hate her too. His wife decides to get rid of him by sewing a picture of herself on the skullcap he wears when he puts his head in the lion's mouth.
- Reprints
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (June 1973)
-
The Thing in the Cave
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein ? (illustration)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-470
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #35 (January 1955) [as "Fatal Treasure"] which is reprinted
-
in He Kept Him in Stitches
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- B-656
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A surgeon gets the chance to operate on a Communist overlord and leaves his scalpel inside of him near his heart so that when he recovers enough in two days to move, he will die.
- Reprints
- in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #23 (June 1973)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Larry Woromay art per Dr. Michael J. Vassallo.
Jaws of Death
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Cal Massey (signed)
- Inks
- Cal Massey (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-495
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a bank-robber's partner runs out on him and leaves him behind for the police, his ghost fools the sap with false promises of stolen money hidden in the alligator pit into getting devoured.
- Reprints
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (June 1973)
-
in Dracula (Interpresse, 1972 series) #19 (1974)
-
The Tarantula!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-422
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A village is victimized by vampire tarantulas.
- Reprints
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (June 1973)
- in Vampyr (Interpresse, 1972 series) #16 ([1974])
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Tarantula!/The Woman Who Wasn't!/Jaws of Death!/He Kept Him in Stiches!
-
1.
The Woman Who Wasn't
-
2.
The Lion's Mouth
-
3.
The Thing in the Cave
-
4.
He Kept Him in Stitches
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5.
Jaws of Death
-
6.
The Tarantula!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Bill Devine
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Jason Sacks
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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