(October 1951)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1951-06-08
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Chipiden Publishing Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1951 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Carl Burgos ?
Inks
Don Rico ?
Colors
Stan Goldberg

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

The Shadow! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
Inks
Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
8511
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Dick Coyne; George Dykes; Iris
Synopsis
When a man's rival slugs him and he falls and breaks his neck, he doesn't realize that he's dead until he notices the absence of his shadow. Eventually he spies the shadow and it darts away from him. He gives chase and pursues it back to the cemetery and his grave.
Reprints

The Man Who Never Was (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Romita (signed as Romita)
Inks
Les Zakarin (signed as Zakarin)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
8451
Genre
detective-mystery; horror-suspense
Characters
Paul Kendrick; Roger Hunt; Jerry Bramley
Synopsis
A man who conceives of Death as a person is wiped out of existence along with his friends.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Per Les Zakarin, he never penciled a comic book story. He farmed out the pencil work to ghosts, inked the stories, and signed them himself (as per Jim Amash's conversation with Zakarin, October 27, 2004).

Trapped in the Cave of Horror (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
8831
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Fred; Betty; Antonio
Reprints

Invisible Death (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Mike Sekowsky
Inks
Bill Walton ?
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese (sourced)

Job Number
8761
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Kevin Scott; Moira; Albert
Synopsis
Invisible invaders from the planet Mondu are thwarted by a blind man who can sense their presence.
Reprints

The Madman! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
Inks
Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
8883
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man is turned invisible by a spiteful poltergeist.
Reprints

Voodoo (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bill La Cava
Inks
Bill La Cava
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Harry Kimball; Lovella Kimball; Benzali
Synopsis
A man gets a voodoo practitioner to cause his wife to die, but when he finds out she has inherited a large sum of money, he asks the practitioner to call off the spell. She finds out he tried to have her killed and gets the voodoo practitioner to give her husband the treatment.
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. The Shadow!
  3. 2. The Man Who Never Was
  4. 3. Trapped in the Cave of Horror
  5. 4. Invisible Death
  6. 5. The Madman!
  7. 6. Voodoo
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Bill Borre
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • David Bruce
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Steve Jenner