(August 1973)
Marvel,
1972 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-05-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #96, April 1973.
He Who Hesitates...
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- [C-396]
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A hesitant professor finally decides to kill the man who's moving in on his wife, but he waits a little too long and the other man pushes him off the cliff instead so that he can marry the professor's wife.
- Reprints
-
from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #8 (May 1953)
-
The Strange Case of Mr. Whimple!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-408
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A thief attacks a man who always carries a box around on his shoulder and kills him. When he gets the box open, he is startled to see that he has killed one head but not the other and runs into the path of an oncoming train. His intended victim gets up and procures a box for the dead head.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #8 (May 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
original story is signed by Kida
Indoor Sport!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sam Kweskin (signed)
- Inks
- Sam Kweskin (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- C-503
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A female ghost acquires pictures of men from potential suitors and throws darts into them to inflict pain and death upon the men in revenge for a man who once jilted her.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #8 (May 1953) [-1 page]
-
The Tough Guy
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number
- C-170
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A muscleman gets pistol-whipped and winds up in the hospital. He overhears a conversation between two doctors about a serum that toughens the body so he decides to take it and turn to crime with his powerful body. After he collapses the doctors inform him he has a throat infection that will kill him shortly now that his body is too powerful for medicine to affect.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #8 (May 1953)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
What Was the Sinister Secret of Mister Whimple?
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1.
He Who Hesitates...
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2.
The Strange Case of Mr. Whimple!
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3.
Indoor Sport!
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4.
The Tough Guy
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