(October 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
The Wax Men
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-926
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A man has dinner every night with wax figures around the table and refers to them as his family. A woman schemes to marry him for his money even though she believes him to be insane, but she finds out that they really are his family, as he is made of wax too.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974)
Enough Rope
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- D-207
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
The Body Snatchers
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Al Luster
- Inks:
- Al Luster
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-950
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- Corpses rise to take revenge upon a doctor who deals with ghouls in order to procure bodies for his medical school.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #12 (January 1975)
Juggernaut
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Gene Colan
- Inks:
- Gene Colan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-905
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A priest convinces followers to sacrifice themselves under the wheels of a heavy cart so that he can steal their belongings. In the night the cart chases the priest up a hill and he sees that it is being pushed by the ghosts of the sacrificed men.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #9 (July 1974)
Tennis Anyone?
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Benulis ?
- Inks:
- Jack Abel ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- D-172
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A tennis player with poor form beats an expert with a racket consisting of strings of human intestine.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974)
The Last Man
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-983
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A bank robber shoots a clerk, and when he is slugged in the head by a police officer, he finds himself lost in a guilt induced fantasy where aliens have kidnapped all of Earth's population except for him and the clerk and the clerk dies in his arms from the bullet wound.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Haunt of Horror (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (May 1974)
Editing
Table of Contents
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1.
The Wax Men
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2.
Enough Rope
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3.
The Body Snatchers
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4.
Juggernaut
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5.
Tennis Anyone?
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6.
The Last Man
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