(March 1953)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-12-24
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1953 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Till Death do us Part!
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed as Bill Everett)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008) - in Marvel 70th Anniversary Collection (Marvel, 2009 series) (July 2009)
-
- Keywords
- brides; skeletons; weddings
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Death!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-979
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a scientist reanimates the body of a murder victim he has freshly killed in order to learn what death is like, his victim shows him by strangling him.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
-
The Experiment
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 9643
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #11 (Spring 1952) [as "The Experiment"]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
-
Wings of the Vampire!
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as Stan Lee [early- to mid-career])
- Pencils
- Ed Winiarski (signed as Ed Win)
- Inks
- Ed Winiarski (signed as Ed Win)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-18
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A European village inspector thinks he is safe from the town vampire by locking himself inside the jail, but it turns out that is the vampire's hideout.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
-
The Perfect Specimen!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
- Inks
- Tony DiPreta (signed as DiPreta)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-999
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a recruiting station tests what appears to be the perfect recruit they are surprised the x-ray results reveal him to be a robot.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
-
The Man Who Went Back
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Sam Kweskin (signed as Sam Kweskin)
- Inks
- Sam Kweskin (signed as Sam Kweskin)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-13
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An escaped killer, due to be hanged, gets on a bus that moves forward in time so that the passengers age rapidly. He threatens the driver with a gun to force him to turn back, and the driver does as he's told, depositing the killer back at the scaffold.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
-
Till Death Do Us Part!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- Mort Lawrence (signed as Mort Lawrence)
- Inks
- Mort Lawrence (signed as Mort Lawrence)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-925
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man who murders his wives for their money hooks up with a woman who just murders her husbands for kicks.
- Reprints
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 ([October] 2008)
- in Marvel 70th Anniversary Collection (Marvel, 2009 series) (July 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover story
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Till Death do us Part!
-
1.
Death!
-
2.
The Experiment
-
3.
Wings of the Vampire!
-
4.
The Perfect Specimen!
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5.
The Man Who Went Back
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6.
Till Death Do Us Part!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- David Bruce
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Gregory Fischer
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
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