(January 1953)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume:
1
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
monthly
Indicia Publisher:
Current Detective Stories, Inc.
Brand:
Atlas [wireframe globe]
Editing:
Stan Lee
Format:
4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series

Tarantula!/The Woman Who Wasn't!/Jaws of Death!/He Kept Him in Stiches! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks:
Joe Maneely (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Horror

The Woman Who Wasn't (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks:
Tony DiPreta
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-546

Content Information

Genre:
horror
Synopsis:
In a wealthy land beneath Greece, descendants of Medusa deal with thieves by incorporating them into their snake-heads.
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The Lion's Mouth (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-641

Content Information

Genre:
horror
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.
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The Thing in the Cave (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Bernard Krigstein ? (illustration)
Inks:
Bernard Krigstein ? (illustration)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-470

Content Information

Genre:
horror
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He Kept Him in Stitches (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Stan Lee
Pencils:
Larry Woromay ?
Inks:
Larry Woromay ?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-656

Content Information

Genre:
horror
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.
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Indexer Notes

Larry Woromay credit a guess by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo


Jaws of Death (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Cal Massey (signed)
Inks:
Cal Massey
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-495

Content Information

Genre:
horror
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.
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The Tarantula! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Hy Rosen
Inks:
Hy Rosen ?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
Job Number:
B-422

Content Information

Genre:
horror
Synopsis:
A village is victimized by vampire tarantulas.
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Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. The Woman Who Wasn't
  2. 2. The Lion's Mouth
  3. 3. The Thing in the Cave
  4. 4. He Kept Him in Stitches
  5. 5. Jaws of Death
  6. 6. The Tarantula!
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Dwayne Best
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
  • Bill Borre
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Jim Walls
  • Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue