(April 1975)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.25 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- 8 times a year
- Indicia Publisher:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group
- Editing:
- ?
- Format:
- Color; Standard Bronze Age US; saddle-stitched; Newsprint; was ongoing series
A Coffin for Carlos
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Don Perlin (signed)
- Inks:
- Abe Simon (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [B-198]
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A man visits a convicted killer in jail and offers to sell him a pill for five hundred dollars that will make him appear dead in order to cheat the electric chair. Once he has been buried, he will dig him up. The killer agrees, but has no money, so he extorts it out of his brother. He takes the pill and it works, but instead of taking him to the morgue, the police wheel him into a group of medical students with scalpels. It turns out his brother sold his body to dissection study for five hundred dollars.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #110 (December 1952)
No Place to Hide!
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Forte (signed)
- Inks:
- John Forte
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [K-816]
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror; crime
- Synopsis:
- A thief steals a chemical compound from an old man which sends him into the past.
- Reprints:
- from Adventure Into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #5 (January 1957)
- from Adventures into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #5 (January 1957)
What World Is This?
comic story / 3 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ross Andru
- Inks:
- Mike Esposito
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [L-347]
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror; crime
- Synopsis:
- A thief hiding from his pursuers makes a wish that time would stand still. He thinks his wish has come true when he enters a town where the inhabitants appear to be immobile, but suddenly realizes that he has stumbled upon a test site just before the atom bomb is being dropped there.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Mystery Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #51 (March 1957)
Mass Murder
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks:
- Robert Q. Sale
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [L-899]
Content Information
- Genre:
- science fiction
- Synopsis:
- A scientist makes use of a duplicator ray to make multiple copies of himself in order to work on a scientific problem, then later destroys the copies. An acquaintance prosecutes him for mass murder. The story ends by asking the reader how they would decide the case.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #10 (June 1957)
The Perfect Hide-Out
comic story / 4 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Inks:
- Frank Bolle
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Editing:
- Stan Lee (original story)
- Job Number:
- [M-286]
Content Information
- Genre:
- crime; occult
- Synopsis:
- A masked thief takes refuge in the home of a frail old woman in a wheelchair who is helpless to turn him in to the authorities - or so he thinks.
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- from Strange Tales of the Unusual (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (August 1957)
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