(July 1957)

Marvel, 1952 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1957
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Prime Publications Inc.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Lost in the Mad Maze! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Everett
Inks
Bill Everett
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

A Suit of Clothes! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
George Roussos
Inks
George Roussos
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway (sourced); Morrie Kuramoto ? (sourced)

Job Number
M-99
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters, Holloway: In comparison with his credited work for Marvel Comics, ca. 1962-63.
Letters, Kuramoto: Compare to his later credits as "Sherigail" in Marval Comics, ca. 1965.

Trapped in the Room of Mystery! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler ?
Pencils
Angelo Torres (signed as A. Torres)
Inks
Angelo Torres (signed as A.Torres); Frank Frazetta
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway (sourced); Artie Simek (sourced) (display lettering (title))

Job Number
M-5
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The majority of inks (if not all) are by Frazetta.

This story may be a Wessler script, originally titled "Trapped in the House of Miracles." Info per Wessler biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 30, No. 8, August 2019.

Letters, Holloway: Ray Holloway credit based on comparison with his credited work for Marvel, ca.
1962-63. Holloway was on staff at Timely/Atlas for part of the 1950s, and did a
fair amount of uncredited lettering during this time.

Which One Is Real? (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler
Pencils
Syd Shores
Inks
Syd Shores
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
M-4
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Wessler script per Nick Caputo from biblio info in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol 25, No. 4, April 2015.

The Nick of Time (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Giunta ? (ID by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr, Atlastales)
Inks
Sid Greene ?
Colors
?
Letters
Ben Oda (sourced)

Job Number
M-6
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencils:
1) George Roussos suggested by Tom Lammers (error report 7429)
2) Jim Mooney suggested by Nick Caputo.
3) John Giunta suggested by Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., Atlastales

The Genius (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Tartaglione ? (sourced) (illustration)
Inks
John Tartaglione ? (sourced) (illustration)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
J-931
Reprints

Impossible? (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Bean (sourced)
Inks
Bob Bean (sourced)
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway (sourced)

Job Number
M-37
Reprints

Lost in the Mad Maze! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Frank Bolle (signed as FWB)
Inks
Frank Bolle (signed as FWB)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
M-82
Reprints
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Lost in the Mad Maze!
  2. 1. A Suit of Clothes!
  3. 2. Trapped in the Room of Mystery!
  4. 3. Which One Is Real?
  5. 4. The Nick of Time
  6. 5. The Genius
  7. 6. Impossible?
  8. 7. Lost in the Mad Maze!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Nick Caputo
  • Keith Chandler
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell