(October 1953)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines:
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- 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 Wax Men
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Joe Sinnott
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-926
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A man has dinner every night with wax figures around the table and refers to them as his family. A woman schemes to marry him for his money even though she believes him to be insane, but she finds out that they really are his family, as he is made of wax too.
- Reprints:
-
in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974)
-
The Body Snatchers
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Al Luster
- Inks:
- Al Luster
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-950
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- Corpses rise to take revenge upon a doctor who deals with ghouls in order to procure bodies for his medical school.
- Reprints:
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #12 (January 1975)
-
Juggernaut
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Gene Colan
- Inks:
- Gene Colan
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-905
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A priest convinces followers to sacrifice themselves under the wheels of a heavy cart so that he can steal their belongings. In the night the cart chases the priest up a hill and he sees that it is being pushed by the ghosts of the sacrificed men.
- Reprints:
- in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #9 (July 1974)
-
Tennis Anyone?
comic story / 3 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Benulis
- Inks:
- Jack Abel
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- D-172
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A tennis player with poor form beats an expert with a racket consisting of strings of human intestine.
- Reprints:
- in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974)
-
The Last Man
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Russ Heath
- Inks:
- Russ Heath
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- C-983
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A bank robber shoots a clerk, and when he is slugged in the head by a police officer, he finds himself lost in a guilt induced fantasy where aliens have kidnapped all of Earth's population except for him and the clerk and the clerk dies in his arms from the bullet wound.
- Reprints:
- in Haunt of Horror (Marvel, 1974 series) #1 (May 1974)
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Table of Contents
-
0.
The Wax Men!
-
1.
The Wax Men
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2.
Enough Rope
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3.
The Body Snatchers
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4.
Juggernaut
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5.
Tennis Anyone?
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6.
The Last Man
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- Tony R. Rose
- Mike Nielsen
- Jerry Hillegas
- Jim Van Dore
- Dwayne Best
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr
- Per Sandell
- Bill Borre
- Peter Croome
- Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
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- Jim Walls
- Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
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