(April 1952)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher:
- Current Detective Stories, Inc.
- Brand:
- Atlas [black & white]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Color:
- Four Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age U. S.
- Paper Stock:
- Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
The Dark Dungeon
comic story / 6 pages
- Script:
- Hank Chapman (signed)
- Pencils:
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Inks:
- Ogden Whitney (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 9736
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A man keeps mastiffs half-starved in the dungeon so that he can press a button to release them in the event thieves enter his house. His nephew drugs him and wheels his wheelchair into their enclosure so that he will get his money when the dogs finish him. The man's ghost comes back and does the same thing to the nephew.
Second Floor Rear!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils:
- Bernie Krigstein
- Inks:
- Bernie Krigstein
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- 9863
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A landlady rents an apartment to straw men.
The Flowers of Evil
text story / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- 9702
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Reprints:
-
in Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #26 (August 1953) [as "Bloom of Death"]
-
Indexer Notes
story has 2 spot illustrations
Ghouls Rush In
comic story / 4 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number:
- 9471
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A body snatcher is thwarted in his efforts by cemetery rats that chew through coffins in order to pull the bodies into their warrens.
Indexer Notes
Greg Gatlin notes: Signed R.A. The first story for Atlas by Dick Ayers, pencils, inks and lettering. Delivered to Stan Lee on 10/12/51.
Ayers pencilled a Timely crime story in 1949 that has not been found yet.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
The Dark Dungeon!/Ghouls Rush In!/The Talking Corpse!/Second Floor Rear!
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1.
The Dark Dungeon
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2.
Second Floor Rear!
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3.
The Flowers of Evil
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4.
Ghouls Rush In
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5.
Off With His Head
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6.
Talking Corpse
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