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(August 1952)

Marvel, 1952 Series
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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:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Man Who Melted / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Joe Maneely
Inks:
Joe Maneely
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
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The Monster Maker (Table of Contents)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Bill Everett
Inks:
Bill Everett
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Synopsis:
A statue maker falls in love with one of his statutes and finds a black magic spell that transmutes him into stone.

Skin-Deep (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Hank Chapman
Pencils:
Fred Kida
Inks:
Fred Kida
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Synopsis:
A man is attempting to do a face transplant from a corpse but his interfering wife is always getting underfoot by trying to help him in his endeavors. When she burns the skin that he has harvested off the corpse in her attempt at cleaning up around the place, he fixes her wagon by transplanting the corpse's head onto her shoulder.

The Man Who Believed In Ghosts (Table of Contents)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Paul Reinman
Inks:
Paul Reinman
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Synopsis:
A man who lives next to a cemetery is not frighted of the ghosts which show up every night until he meets his own.

Skeleton In the Closet (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Manny Stallman
Inks:
Manny Stallman
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Synopsis:
A rich man marries into a family of freaks.

The Vault of Doom (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
9765

Content Information

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

The Man Who Melted (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Stan Lee
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Synopsis:
A forgetful inventor shoots his wife for testing his serum that will allow him to melt away and commit the perfect crime, but he forgets to devise a way to return himself to normal.
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Table of Contents

  1. 1. The Monster Maker
  2. 2. Skin-Deep
  3. 3. The Man Who Believed In Ghosts
  4. 4. Skeleton In the Closet
  5. 5. The Vault of Doom
  6. 6. The Man Who Melted
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Bill Borre
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Lou Mougin
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Michael J. Vassallo
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