(April 1954)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1953-12-21
- 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]
- Printer
- Printed in the U. S. A.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1954 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
Satan Can Wait
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Inks
- Paul Reinman (signed as Paul Reinman)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- D-908
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a man enters a bar and, as a gag, offers a skeptic a contract for his soul for one million dollars the skeptic signs it. No one sees the stranger leave, but a coincidence leaves the signer one million dollars from a will. As time goes by, the contract worries away at him distorting his personality from likable to hostile. His employees hate him and his family leave him. One day he receives a visitor and it turns out to be the man with the contract looking for work. The skeptic is so angered that his life has been changed so dramatically by a practical joke that he seizes a heavy candlestick and kills the stranger. Now he feels that he has sold his soul to the Devil in actuality and walks out into the dark for Satan to claim him.
- Reprints
-
in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 ([August] 1973) [black and white] which is reprinted - in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
Killer in the House
text story / 1.67 pages
- Job Number
- A-100
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Amazing Detective Cases (Marvel, 1950 series) #13 (July 1952) [under the title "Killer in the House"]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
Till Death Do Us Part
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Vic Carrabotta (signed as Vic Carrabotta)
- Inks
- Vic Carrabotta (signed as Vic Carrabotta)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- D-711
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man finally works up the nerve to strangle his cheating wife but an atomic war breaks out, and the two of them find their bodies fused together by atomic radiation.
- Reprints
-
in Gespenster Geschichten (Bastei Verlag, 1974 series) #1075 - in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (August 1973)
- in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #3 (February 1994)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
The Face That Followed
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Al Luster (signed as Al Luster)
- Inks
- Al Luster (signed as Al Luster)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- D-780
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- An escaped convict vows to haunt a hermit who has murdered him after ascertaining where his stolen loot was buried. When the police arrive at the hermit's hut they gun him down because, unknown to him, his face is now that of the man he killed.
- Reprints
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (August 1973)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
script credit from the Masterworks reprint
Bewitched
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mannie Banks (signed as Mannie Banks)
- Inks
- Mannie Banks (signed as Mannie Banks)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- D-779
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- In 1686 a man asks a woman to marry him and is turned down so he plants evidence to get her condemned as a witch. They pursue her through the forest and the man hurts his leg so they leave him behind to pursue her. She returns to the man to get revenge and says "So you called me a witch? Well, you were close!" as she bares her vampire fangs.
- Reprints
- in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (October 1973) [re-titled "Witch Hunt", black and white] which is reprinted
- in Vampire Tales (Marvel, 2010 series) #1 (2010)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
The Man Who Was Nobody
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- D-879
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A Martian sleeper agent is eradicated when his usefulness is ended due to incarceration in an asylum. He was committed because he had tried to obtain a passport and could provide no official documentation that he existed.
- Reprints
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973)
- in Hulk (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #23 ([November 1975])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
credits from the Masterworks reprint
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Till Death Do Us Part!
-
1.
Satan Can Wait
-
2.
Killer in the House
-
3.
Till Death Do Us Part
-
4.
The Face That Followed
-
5.
Bewitched
-
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
The Man Who Was Nobody
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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