Venus #15
(August 1951)

Marvel, 1948 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Leading Comic Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

The Empty Graves! (Table of Contents)

Venus / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks
Bill Everett (signed)
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
typeset
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

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The Graveyard Waxworks (Table of Contents: 1)

Venus / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks
Bill Everett ? (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Everett (signed)
Job Number
8547
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Synopsis
A race of "underearth men" plans to rule the world and starts inhabiting the bodies of fresh corpses. Venus tricks them and exposes the subterranean fiends to sunlight, which makes them perish momentarily.

The Day That Venus Vanished (Table of Contents: 2)

Venus / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Everett
Pencils
Bill Everett
Inks
Bill Everett
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Everett
Job Number
8546
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Synopsis
Crazed photographer Jerome Lenz takes a picture of Venus with his magic camera and animated photographic paper, turning her into a two-dimensional being. Whitney Hammond comes searching for Venus and saves the day.

Return from Mars (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Russ Heath (illustration)
Inks
Russ Heath (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
8369
Genre
science fiction
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Updated by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo (6 January 2005).

Escape from Death (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sol Brodsky (signed)
Inks
Sol Brodsky (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
8709
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
Handsome space pirate Kallam Raa is caught and sentenced to work in a labor colony. He can escape, but only aboard a spaceship full of outcasts with leprosy.

The Living Dolls (Table of Contents: 5)

Venus / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Everett (signed)
Pencils
Bill Everett (signed)
Inks
Bill Everett (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Everett (signed)
Job Number
8545
Genre
fantasy-supernatural; superhero
Characters
Venus; Whitney Hammond; Professor Zorsky
Synopsis
Professor Zorsky's carnival side show features "living dolls" who look too natural to be true. Venus and Whitney Hammond investigate and are threatened by Zorsky.
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Empty Graves!
    Venus
  2. 1. The Graveyard Waxworks
    Venus
  3. 2. The Day That Venus Vanished
    Venus
  4. 3. Return from Mars
  5. 4. Escape from Death
  6. 5. The Living Dolls
    Venus
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