(March 1953)
- 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
Issue Notes
Statement of ownership: Current Detective Stories; Editor: Stan Lee; Managing editor: Martin Goodman; Business manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.; Owners: Current Detective Stories, Martin Goodman, Jerome A. Perles, Morris Siegel; Notary public: Tess Harwood, signed 8 September 1952
I Die Too Often
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Gil Kane ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- B-933
Content Information
- Genre:
- Horror
- Synopsis:
- A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death...until he hears the warden summon his ghost from its grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (September 1973)
The Window
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- B-959
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Characters:
- Howard Stevens
- Synopsis:
- A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #62 (April 1958)
The Vandals!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- B-947
Content Information
- Genre:
- Horror
- Synopsis:
- When four vandals enter a museum at night to cut off the gold heads from a hydra idol, they end with their heads placed upon the evil idol.
Casper's Boss!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ken Landau
- Inks:
- Ken Landau
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- B-852
Content Information
- Genre:
- Horror
- Synopsis:
- When his smoker boss doesn't lend him the money he needs for his wife's operation and she dies, a man ties the smoker up in a shed filled with explosives.
They Don't Complain
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Sam Kweskin
- Inks:
- Sam Kweskin
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- B-921/971?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Horror
- Synopsis:
- This story postulates that dead people remain aware and sensate during their autopsies.
- Reprints:
- in Frankenstein (Marvel, 1973 series) #14 (January 1975)
Red as a Lobster
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Inks:
- Jim Mooney
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- B-784
Content Information
- Genre:
- Horror
- Synopsis:
- Lobsters get their revenge on a diver who likes to boil them alive in order to observe their suffering by herding him into a hot-spring.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (September 1973)
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
I Die Too Often
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2.
The Window
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3.
The Vandals!
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4.
Casper's Boss!
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5.
They Don't Complain
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6.
Red as a Lobster
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