(May 1954)
- 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
Slave Ship
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Bill Benulis
- Inks:
- Bill Benulis
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- E-210
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A captain of a salvage ship takes advantage of storm-wrecked vessels until the tables are turned upon him.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Gaflin's Ghost
text story / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- A-58
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Reprints:
-
from Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) #5 (July 1952) [as "Gaflin's Ghost"]
-
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Dear Valentine!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Al Hartley
- Inks:
- Al Hartley
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- E-245
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
A half-hearted swipe of EC's "Poetic Justice"
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
It Happened in the Morgue
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Ed Winiarski
- Inks:
- Ed Winiarski
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- E-138
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A city coroner taking kick-backs from the mob in order to bury the bodies of murder victims quickly with false natural death certificates gets the same treatment from the new coroner.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. More information supplied by Flat File by the Atlas group.
The Suitcase!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- John Rosenberger
- Inks:
- John Rosenberger
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- E-187
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A thief steals a suitcase containing shrunken heads and a formula for shrinking a head while the body still lives. The thief comes under a compulsion to ingest the formula and decapitate himself to add his head to the collection.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Crazy, Man!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- E-91
- Genre:
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis:
- A man who witnesses alien invaders possessing the bodies of important people to plan a takeover is placed in a mental institution and eventually released. When he comes across the same aliens, his first thought is to warn the authorities, but then he realizes that he'll be placed back in the institution so he keeps his mouth shut.
Indexer Notes
Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Suitcase!
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1.
Slave Ship
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2.
Gaflin's Ghost
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3.
Dear Valentine!
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4.
It Happened in the Morgue
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5.
The Suitcase!
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6.
Crazy, Man!
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Jerry Hillegas
- Per Sandell
- Bill Borre
- Peter Croome
- Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Jim Walls
- Chris Brown; M Vassallo; F Motler; J Selegue
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