Menace
#2
(April 1953)
Marvel,
1953 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
- Hercules Publishing Corporation
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Detailed content information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V] (June 8, 2005).
Burton's Blood
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([October] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
The Man in Black
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- George Tuska (signed as G. T.)
- Inks
- George Tuska (signed as G. T.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-289
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A communist agent mistakes his contact for the man he is supposed to kill.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([October] 2009)
-
Fair Exchange
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- C-368
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([October] 2009)
-
Burton's Blood!
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- C-288
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A vampire sleeps for years after gorging on all the blood available to him in the atomic war of 1998. When he awakens and looks for another victim, he is astonished to find that humans died out long ago and only the human-like robots are left.
- Reprints
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (June 1974)
-
in Varulv på natten (Red Clown, 1975 series) #3/1975 (1975) - in Thrill Book! (Pure Imagination, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([October] 2009)
-
Rocket to the Moon
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as S. L.)
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Job Number
- C-290
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A lab assistant builds a rocket that will travel to the moon and volunteers to fly it, but his boss wants the credit, so he knocks him out and takes off. Unfortunately for him, the rocket is only one way.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([October] 2009)
-
On with the Dance!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese (sourced)
- Job Number
- C-287
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A dancer who wants a part threatens the girl who got it with a gun to resign. Unfortunately for her, this girl is a witch, and she hexes the dancer to dance in place without ever stopping until she starves to death and even then her corpse dances on and on.
- Reprints
- in Giant-Size Dracula (Marvel, 1974 series) #2 (September 1974)
- in Thrill Book! (Pure Imagination, 2004 series) (2004)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1 ([October] 2009)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Burton's Blood
-
1.
The Man in Black
-
2.
Fair Exchange
-
3.
Burton's Blood!
-
4.
Rocket to the Moon
-
5.
On with the Dance!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Dwayne Best
- Josh Blair
- Bill Borre
- Mark Bowen
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Ethan Hoddes
- Steve Jenner
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Terry Vraspir
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