(April 1954)
Marvel,
1950 Series
- 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 (editor)
They Fly by Night
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- D-963
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A boy's parents are killed by a vampire during a trip to Hungary and he survives because the vampire is too sated to drain his blood. He returns to America but continues to have dreams of his parents begging him to return to Hungary so that they can be together forever. When he reaches adulthood he returns to Hungary and prepares to slay the vampire. Instead he encounters his parents who are vampires and offer to turn him into one. He walks towards the two but the story leaves it up to the reader to guess whether he stakes them or submits to their dark embrace.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Hungary; vampires
Uninvited Guests
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (illustration)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (illustration)
- Colors
- ? (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- 9689
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- John Pearson; Prof. Thomas Benton; Father Time
- Synopsis
- A scientist's machine transports him and a reporter outside of time and into the realm of Father Time.
- Reprints
-
from Adventures into Weird Worlds (Marvel, 1952 series) #7 (June 1952) [original title: Zero of Time] - in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2857 - Adventures into Terror - Public Domain Treasury ([December] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- time travel
The Dead Don't Sleep
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- D-938
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Have you ever wondered if the dead resent the mediums who disturb their rest? This story answers that question.
- Reprints
- in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #11 (August 1975)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2857 - Adventures into Terror - Public Domain Treasury ([December] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- mediums
The Man in the Shadows
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- D-913
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A strange sequence of events turns out to be the disjointed memories of a condemned man.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- casinos; electric chair
Don't Nod
comic story / 4 pages
A Scream in the Night!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Vince Colletta (signed as Colletta)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (signed as Colletta)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- D-966
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- All of the people surrounding a writer turn out to be members of a sacrificial cult and since one of them is a psychologist, they have the writer committed to an asylum after he stumbles upon one of their ritual human burnings.
- Reprints
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 (August 1975)
- in Gwandanaland Comics (Gwandanaland Comics, 2016 series) #2857 - Adventures into Terror - Public Domain Treasury ([December] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- asylums; cults; gaslighting
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Dead Don't Sleep!
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1.
They Fly by Night
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2.
Uninvited Guests
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3.
The Dead Don't Sleep
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4.
The Man in the Shadows
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5.
Don't Nod
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6.
A Scream in the Night!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Ethan Hoddes
- Glenn MacKay
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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