Thrill Book!

(2004)

Thrill Book! (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Title page and indicia

Comics' Collapse in Context The Anti-Comics Crusade of 1954 (Table of Contents: 2)

text article / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Greg Theakston

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pre-Code.

Indexer Notes

Article by Theakston with notes about the stories included.

Men in Black (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

John Romita (signed)

Inks

John Romita (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

C-608

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Jim Horton; Marion Horton; Gonzales; Luigi; Reilly; Hooded Bigots [Rocky; Pete]

Synopsis

After losing his job, Jim Horton organizes a gang that wears black hoods to beat and rob anyone he considers "foreign," but his bigotry leads to his death.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person. The writer and artist of this story about anti-immigrant prejudice were the children of Jewish and Italian immigrants, respectively. This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959) as "I Am the Man Without a Face!" drawn by Joe Sinnott, and in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (January 1962) as "The Hidden Face" drawn by Steve Ditko.

Burton's Blood! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

?

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

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #2 (April 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Cat's Death (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Kubert (signed)

Inks

Joe Kubert (signed)

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Strange Terrors (St. John, 1952 series) #7 (March 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

On with the Dance! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Russ Heath (signed)

Inks

Russ Heath (signed)

Letters

?

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

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #2 (April 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

The Fangs of the Wolf (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Colors

?

Job Number

D-449

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man who shoots dogs for fun is bitten by a werewolf. He even has hired a sharpshooter to kill any strays that might venture onto his property, but he regrets this action when he changes to wolf form and his hired hand shoots him.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #9 (January 1954)
• Reprinted in black and white.

The Phantom Fliers (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Richard Hughes ?

Pencils

Al Williamson; Frank Frazetta

Inks

Al Williamson; Frank Frazetta

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Bill Chalmers; Nora Bentley; Werner Borth

Reprints

• from Out of the Night (American Comics Group, 1952 series) #4 (August-September 1952)
• Reprinted in black and white.

You're Gonna Live Forever (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Joe Maneely (signed)

Inks

Joe Maneely (signed)

Colors

?

Job Number

C-323

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

A gangster drinks a serum that will allow him to live forever and goes to hide out in the bayou where he falls into a pit of quicksand.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Your Name Is Frankenstein! (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Joe Maneely (signed)

Inks

Joe Maneely (signed)

Colors

?

Job Number

D-305

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Frankenstein's monster

Synopsis

The Frankenstein monster seeks companionship and finds only rejection and hate.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #7 (September 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

The Monster of Frankenstein and the Plant (Table of Contents: 11)

Frankenstein / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Dick Briefer (signed)

Pencils

Dick Briefer

Inks

Dick Briefer

Colors

?

Genre

horror-suspense; superhero

Reprints

• from Frankenstein (Prize, 1945 series) #v5#5 (33) (October-November 1954)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Indexer Notes

recycled from story in issue #11; last appearance, until revived as "Frightenstein" in AC Comics

The Fruit of Death (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Rudy Palais

Inks

Rudy Palais

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #12 (September 1952)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Goddess of Murder (Table of Contents: 13)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Cole ?

Inks

Jack Cole ?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Monstrous four-armed goddess Kali demands human sacrifices. When the lovely Caroline is chosen to be the next victim, her lover Kenneth comes to the rescue.

Reprints

• from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #3 (March 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Grip on Life (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Alex Toth

Inks

Mike Peppe

Letters

?

Job Number

B-1725

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A corrupt district attorney is brought to poetic justice by his wife who returned from the dead after a car accident. When she finds out that he doesn't love her anymore, she goes back to the grave - taking him with her.

Reprints

• from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #12 (November 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Half Man, Half ... ? (Table of Contents: 15)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Russ Heath (signed as RH)

Inks

Russ Heath (signed as RH)

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #10 (March 1954)
• Reprinted in black and white.

The House that Lived (Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Bernie Krigstein (signed)

Inks

Bernie Krigstein (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

H-723

Reprints

• from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #39 (March 1956)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio info published in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 26, No. 4, April 2015.

Death Kiss (Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Rudy Palais (signed)

Inks

Rudy Palais

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense; science fiction

Characters

Professor Casper Skeezer; Charlie; Louise; Rita;

Synopsis

Prof. Skeezer creates a sexy robot named Rita. However, she is so strong that her kisses kill men. Skeezer tries to destroy Rita before she can kiss him to death, but fails.

Reprints

• from Horrific (Comic Media, 1952 series) #5 (May 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Indexer Notes

The professor's last name is spelled "Skeezer" on page 1, but on page 6 and 7 it is "Skeeter."

The Killer from Saturn (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Cole

Inks

Jack Cole

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

A municipal window clerk (villain)

Synopsis

The city's in panic as an alien-like serial killer stalks the streets at night. Twelve people have to die until clever police lieutenant Jordan comes up with an explanation and confronts the fiend, who turns out to be a mousy city window clerk who wears an imposing monster costume with stilts, who is taking revenge on those who abused him.

Reprints

• from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #3 (March 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Keywords

Daily Bugle; Evening News

Indexer Notes

Art credits confirmed by Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd in Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits! (Chronicle Books LLC, 2001 series) nn (August 2001)

Monster of the Mist (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Cole ?

Pencils

Jack Cole

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Marine biologist Dr. Mornay discovers a giant sea serpent and keeps it close to study the creature. Mornay feeds the beast with sheep, but only teaches it a lust for blood. Mornay’s son and his fiancée arrive and help him prepare a deadly bait.

Reprints

• from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #4 (May 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Orgy of Death (Table of Contents: 20)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Cole ?

Pencils

Jack Cole

Inks

Jack Cole ?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Greedy Dr. Morgan discovers the remnants of a Phoenician cult on a remote island. He’s willing to sacrifice his niece Lela and his pilot Alan to get his hands on the lost treasure of Moloch. But tables are turned when the earth starts to quake and a volcano erupts.

Reprints

• from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #6 (September 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

The Planet of Living Death (Table of Contents: 21)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Russ Heath (signed)

Inks

Russ Heath (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

D-276

Genre

science fiction

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #7 (September 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Indexer Notes

The same story as the first story in Amazing Adult Fantasy #8

I, The Robot (Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Romita (signed)

Inks

John Romita (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

D-922

Genre

horror-suspense; science fiction

Synopsis

A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal it after the robot has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #11 (May 1954)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Keywords

robot

Indexer Notes

First apppearance and origin of M-11, the Human Robot of the Agents of Atlas.

Rocket Ship! (Table of Contents: 23)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Russ Heath (signed)

Inks

Russ Heath (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

C-969

Genre

horror-suspense; science fiction

Synopsis

In the year 2005 a rocket ship heads for Venus to relieve over population on Earth, but unfortunately the atmosphere of Venus dissolves human flesh like acid.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #5 (July 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Symphony in Death (Table of Contents: 24)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Maneely (signed)

Inks

Joe Maneely (signed)

Letters

?

Job Number

D-406

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

When a music critic steals a work from a composer and passes it off as his own, the composer attaches a rope to a phonograph and strangles the critic slowly by playing the recording.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #9 (January 1954)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Werewolf! (Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett

Inks

Bill Everett

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

C-482

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A man goes into the forest in order to find proof of werewolves and is attacked. He shoots the beast and returns home to his shrew wife, but he has been bitten, so she screams as he begins to transform. She shoots him in the back with a shotgun but he tears out her throat before he dies.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #3 (May 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Zombie! (Table of Contents: 26)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed)

Pencils

Bill Everett (signed)

Inks

Bill Everett (signed)

Letters

Bill Everett

Job Number

C-952

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Gyps sends his zombie to bring back more money and a girl. The zombie then revolts and kills Gyps.

Reprints

• from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #5 (July 1953)
• Reprinted in black and white.

Indexer Notes

Additional reprint information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V], 5/28/2006.

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