(November 1954)
Marvel,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1954-08-27
- 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 the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 8, Part 2, Number 2, Periodicals, July-December 1954. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B495183.
The Little Things!
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits per Phil Kaltenback via the GCD Error List (15 March 2006) and confirmed by Michael J. Vassallo in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #2.
Previous indexer credited Russ Heath.
Behind the Locked Door!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Tumlinson (signed as Pete Tumlinson)
- Inks
- Pete Tumlinson (signed as Pete Tumlinson)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-47
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a man with a robotics researcher as a girlfriend gets a robot from her, the creature builds itself a girlfriend robot. When the human woman sees the girl robot, she flies into a jealous rage and shoots her beau before he can explain that the girl is just a robot.
- Reprints
-
in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #55 - in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #12, #144 ([circa 1974 - 1975])
-
in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
The Ray Machine
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-611
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #16 (February 1953) [as "The Ray Machine"]
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
The Un-Human!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Inks
- John Forte (signed as John Forte)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- E-745
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When an alien spy assumes the shape and mind of a servant of the top scientist in the country in order to learn of Earth's defenses, he absorbs some of the goodness of the man's soul, and thus does not reveal to his evil alien masters that they will be destroyed when they attack Earth.
- Reprints
The Little Things!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Howie Post (signed as Howie Post)
- Inks
- Howie Post (signed as Howie Post)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-66
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man finds that the oriental figures his wife buys somehow turn into the real thing when they are broken. He wants to be rid of her, so he buys a rattlesnake figurine. When he returns to the house from watching a movie, he breaks the sack containing the figurine against the wall, as she tells him from the kitchen that she exchanged it for a figurine of an atomic bomb.
- Reprints
It Waits In the Tank!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Vince Colletta (signed as Colletta)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (signed as Colletta)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- F-92
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a man acquires a strange sea creature it slowly transfers into his body and switches minds, leaving him inside the tank starring out at the alien being which has seized his form.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #14, #181 ([circa 1978 - 1979])
- in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 ([May] 2009)
-
The Witch Burning!
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- E-509
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A witch dies of heart failure before being burned and possesses the nearest living body, that of a witch hunter. The witch thinks this will be the perfect cover for her to practice her witchcraft, but she reckons without the man's son, who senses the evil presence and burns the cabin down.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art credit from Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 Series) #2 and Atlas Tales.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Little Things!
-
1.
Behind the Locked Door!
-
2.
The Ray Machine
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3.
The Un-Human!
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4.
The Little Things!
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5.
It Waits In the Tank!
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6.
The Witch Burning!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Steve Dasinger
- Mike DeLisa
- Ethan Hoddes
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
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