(October 1955)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1955-07-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Chipiden Publishing Corp.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1955 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Carl Burgos
Inks
Carl Burgos
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Cover credits obtained from an article in From The Tomb #10 (June, 2003)by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo and Frank Motler via the GCD Comics Database List.

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Karnoff's Plan (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Everett ?
Pencils
Bill Everett (signed as BE)
Inks
Bill Everett (signed as BE)
Colors
?
Letters
Bill Everett

Job Number
G-785
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Professor Karnoff
Synopsis
A Puppet Master type story but his material works on buildings as well as people. He meets his doom when his landlady sells his statue of himself along with other personal items for nonpayment of rent and the buyer tosses it in the trash.
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Indexer Notes

Signature can be barely discerned within the debris from the exploding building on page 1.

Music Master (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jay Scott Pike (illustration)
Inks
Jay Scott Pike (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
G-804
Genre
fantasy-supernatural
Characters
Joe; Gus; Angelo
Synopsis
A struggling band takes on a poor but talented young harp player who turns out to be a young angel studying on Earth.
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Blind Spot (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sid Greene
Inks
Sid Greene
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese (sourced)

Job Number
G-271
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A homely alien is going to recommend humans be destroyed to preserve the galactic peace when he saves a blind girl from being struck by a car. After she tells him she can sense his inner nobility he changes his recommendation to allow humans to develop their space-faring capability.
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Indexer Notes

This story is reminiscent of Alicia Master's first meeting with the Silver Surfer.

The Secret of the Ship (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks
Kurt Schaffenberger
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
G-697
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Peter Grant
Synopsis
A young boy who plays with toy ships loses his paper route job when he is late once too often. The family needs extra money because the father is home recovering from an illness. The boy thinks his ship has become lost, but after awhile it returns loaded with black pearls it has traded for at a distant port.
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The Man Mountain! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Norman Maurer (signed as NM)
Inks
Norman Maurer (signed as NM)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek

Job Number
G-698
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Mammoth
Synopsis
A story that explains the circumstances of the old woman who had so many children she didn't know what to do came to live in a shoe.
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Five Who Volunteered (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler
Pencils
Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
Inks
Joe Sinnott (signed as Joe Sinnott)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
G-741
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Burt Lloyd; Edmund Carter; Fred Burgess; Laura Beatty; George Reynolds; Morton; Edith Roger
Synopsis
A TV producer of a candid-camera type show contacts an inventor who doesn't believe his rocket can fly to Venus. The producer says that's ok because he wants to advertise for five people who wish to leave Earth and film them being fooled by the fraud for the audience's amusement. The inventor agrees and is surprised when his rocket actually does succeed in reaching Venus, but not nearly as surprised as the producer and his film crew when the five recruits shape-shift into Venusians who are glad to be home.
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Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 2013.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Karnoff's Plan
  3. 2. Music Master
  4. 3. Blind Spot
  5. 4. The Secret of the Ship
  6. 5. The Man Mountain!
  7. 6. Five Who Volunteered
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Bill Borre
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Per Sandell
  • Jim Van Dore