(June 1952)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- Prime Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- Atlas [wireframe globe]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Format:
- 4 Color; Standard Golden Age US; Newsprint; Saddle-Stitched; On-Going Series
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
- from Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #1 (March 1953) [as "The Search!"]
While the City Sleeps
comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks:
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-70
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror; science fiction
- Synopsis:
- Martians infiltrate Earth by landing in cemeteries and burrowing into graves in order to wear the bodies of dead humans as a disguise.
The Night Horror
text story / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- A-191
Content Information
- Reprints: show reprint note before migration
- in Adventures Into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #27 (March 1953 [March 1954]) [as "Haunted House"]
Indexer Notes
Page 2 of this sequence follows sequence 3.
They Live Alone!
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Manny Stallman
- Inks:
- Manny Stallman
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- Two old ladies feed investigating welfare bureau agents to their pet rats.
The Drop of Blood
comic story / 5 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror
- Synopsis:
- A man stabs to death another man and gets a spot of blood on his shoulder when he carries the body out to a field to bury it. He tries soap and water and even kerosene but the stain won't come off his skin. He buys a nostrum from a carnival snake oil salesman who promises that it "will restore the flesh" and when he uses it, it removes the blood stain, but regenerates the body of the murder victim who then strangles him.
Satan and Sammy Snodgrass
comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Stan Lee
- Pencils:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Inks:
- Paul Reinman (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- horror; occult
- Synopsis:
- The Devil wants to claim the soul of a man who never refuses to take a bet so he offers to grant the man a wish, since anyone who makes a Devil's pact forfeits their soul. He makes a bet with the man that he won't let the Devil grant him a wish. Satan thinks he wins either way. The man agrees to let him grant him a wish. The Devil is overjoyed as he thinks he's won. The man wishes that the Devil never claim his soul.
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