(May 1954)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- 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)
The Suitcase!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- Keywords
- decapitation; graveyards
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
Slave Ship
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Benulis (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Benulis (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Job Number
- E-210
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A captain of a salvage ship takes advantage of storm-wrecked vessels until the tables are turned upon him.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Gaflin's Ghost
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- A-58
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Greedy Eldredge Stevens tracks down a ghost who can lead him to a lost treasure, but dies before he can retrieve it.
- Reprints
-
from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #5 (July 1952) [original title: The Ghost Goes Free!] - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2857 - Adventures into Terror - Public Domain Treasury ([December] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- ghosts
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Dear Valentine!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Hartley (signed as
Al Hartley [upper]) - Inks
- Al Hartley (signed as Al Hartley [upper])
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- E-245
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Mimi's lover agrees to kill her boring husband Frank, but Frank's ghost enacts his revenge on both of them.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- ghosts
Indexer Notes
A half-hearted swipe of EC's "Poetic Justice"
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
It Happened in the Morgue
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- E-138
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A city coroner taking kick-backs from the mob in order to bury the bodies of murder victims quickly with false natural death certificates gets the same treatment from the new coroner.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. More information supplied by Flat File by the Atlas group.
The Suitcase!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- E-187
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A thief steals a suitcase containing shrunken heads and a formula for shrinking a head while the body still lives. The thief comes under a compulsion to ingest the formula and decapitate himself to add his head to the collection.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- decapitation; shrunken heads
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Crazy, Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed as
Dick Ayers) - Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Dick Ayers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- E-91
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man who witnesses alien invaders possessing the bodies of important people to plan a takeover is placed in a mental institution and eventually released. When he comes across the same aliens, his first thought is to warn the authorities, but then he realizes that he'll be placed back in the institution so he keeps his mouth shut.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- asylums
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Suitcase!
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1.
Slave Ship
-
2.
Gaflin's Ghost
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3.
Dear Valentine!
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4.
It Happened in the Morgue
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5.
The Suitcase!
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6.
Crazy, Man!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Katy Hayhurst
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
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