(September 1953)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1953-06-01
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Chipiden Publishing Corp.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1953 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Sol Brodsky ?
Inks
Sol Brodsky ?
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Corpse That Wasn't
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

The Untouchable! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)
Inks
Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
C-696
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Mehtar; Boyles; Rangh
Synopsis
When a starving white man, who considers himself one of the highborn caste, takes food from an Untouchable the natives now consider him to be a part of that caste.
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The Easter Eggs (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Fred Kida ? (illustration)
Inks
Fred Kida ? (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
C-553
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
John Inger; Frank Inger; Charles Olsen; Hitchman
Reprints

What Happened on the Moon? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Burt Frohman
Pencils
Bill Benulis (signed as Benulis)
Inks
Jack Abel (signed as Abel)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
C-914
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Edward Sharp
Synopsis
A scientist builds a robot that can survive the voyage to the moon, but when it arrives, it constructs a factory to duplicate an army of robots for the purpose of conquering Earth.
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Indexer Notes

Frohman credit confirmed from Frank Motler via a copy of Frohman's original script.

The Voice of Death (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob McCarthy
Inks
Bob McCarthy
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese (sourced)

Job Number
C-992
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Don Rugero; Edward Fenton; Lenora Fenton
Synopsis
An opera singer, who can shatter glass with his voice, is tried to be interrupted during his performance by a surgeon but the man fails to get to the singer in time. He hits the high note and dies because the surgeon had put a glass plate in his head.
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Too Good To Be True! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Forte (signed as John Forte)
Inks
Matt Fox
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway ? (sourced)

Job Number
C-921
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Charley
Synopsis
The Devil makes a gambler have good luck so he wins all his bets but his gambling partners do away with him to get their money back.
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The Corpse That Wasn't (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
John Buscema
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
C-899
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Al Verek; Nick Elton; Rashudra
Synopsis
A gangster pays a swami to put his partner under a post hypnotic suggestion to run into the path of a roller coaster.
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Indexer Notes

Additional info from the John Buscema checklist built by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. and Michel Maillot.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["The Corpse That Wasn't"]
  2. 1. The Untouchable!
  3. 2. The Easter Eggs
  4. 3. What Happened on the Moon?
  5. 4. The Voice of Death
  6. 5. Too Good To Be True!
  7. 6. The Corpse That Wasn't
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Bill Borre
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Michel Maillot