(August 1953)

Marvel, 1952 Series
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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
20th Century Comic Corp.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Data for this index from Ger Appledoon via the Timely-Atlas Group ([email protected]), 9 March 2008

Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks
Bill Everett (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Today I Am a Man! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Joe Maneely (signed)
Inks
Joe Maneely (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
C-756
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
In the 1970s a man becomes paranoid that androids are out to kill and replace him so he kills everyone around him until he is apprehended and it is revealed that he, too, is an android.
Reprints

Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Luster (signed)
Inks
Al Luster (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
C-683
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man and his girlfriend attempt to buy the secret of immortality from a Gypsy for 100,000 dollars. He gets the money through robbery and buys the secret from the Gypsy. At first, he is glad because he can walk through bank guard's bullets and only be tickled, but when his flesh rots off, he realizes his girlfriend held out on the Gypsy and he returns to their apartment to kill her.
Reprints

Death in Vergona (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
9690
Genre
horror-suspense

Listen, You Fool! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks
Paul Reinman (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
C-920
Reprints

The Twin! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Myron Fass ?
Inks
Myron Fass ?; Jack Abel ?
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
C-978
Genre
crime; historical
Synopsis
Twin brothers are always competing with each other but the one who was born first always gets the idea slightly before the other. The later brother decides he's had enough and is going to murder the first born twin, but yet again, he gets the idea just a little slower than the other man.
Reprints

Marion's Murder! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
George Tuska
Inks
George Tuska
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
C-900
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A husband is bored with his wife so he kills her and intends to bury her in the cellar, but he forgets that today is their wedding anniversary and when he carries her body down the stairs and turns on the lights, the neighbors are gathered there for a surprise party the wife had arranged.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The title of the reprint in Beware #3 is "Marion's Murderer".

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy!
  2. 1. Today I Am a Man!
  3. 2. Don't Ever Gyp a Gypsy!
  4. 3. Death in Vergona
  5. 4. Listen, You Fool!
  6. 5. The Twin!
  7. 6. Marion's Murder!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Bill Borre
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Mike DeLisa
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Darrel McCann
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore