(March 1953)
Marvel,
1952 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
- 20th Century Comic Corp.
- Brand
- Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Standard Golden Age US
- Paper Stock
- Newsprint with Glossy Covers
- Binding
- Saddle-Stitched
- Publishing Format
- was On-Going Series
Issue Notes
Information for this index from Frank Motler via the Yahoo Timely-Atlas-Comics list (3 January 2008).
The Specimen!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-995
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A scientist plots to use a mermaid from Atlantis to gain world renown and so he lies to her that he loves her until he can build an escape-proof tank. Unfortunately for him, she has the exact same intentions for him and drags him down to Atlantis so they can use him as a specimen to model how human males appear in order to create an invasion force.
- Reprints
-
in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #12 (1961) - in Spellbound Album (L. Miller & Son, 1964 series) (1964)
-
in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #18 (September 1975) -
in Capitaine America (Editions Héritage, 1970 series) #49 ([Septembre 1975])
-
Hunger
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ben Brown (signed)
- Inks
- David Gantz (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-739
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A butcher poisons his ex-partner's meat locker in order to drive him out of business but then comes back later to make sure he did not leave any evidence behind and gets himself locked in. Over the course of several days he waits for someone to come and let him out, but no one comes. He resists the temptation to eat the meat and eventually starves. When his body is found the owner wonders why he did not eat the meat since the inspector had declared it unfit and made him replace the entire locker with fresh stock.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #14 (1960)
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (October 1975)
- in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #4 ([no date])
-
Ashes to Ashes!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Eadeh
- Inks
- Al Eadeh ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-779
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A woman burns her uncle to death before learning that the directions to his fortune are tattooed in a map upon his back.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #14 (1960)
- in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (November 1975) which is reprinted
- in L'Étonnant Spider-Man (Editions Héritage, 1969 series) #52 (octobre 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Eedah credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com.
The Broken Step
text story / 1.67 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (illustration)
- Inks
- ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ? (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-877
Statement of Ownership
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
from statement: Editor: Stan Lee Managing editor: Martin Goodman Bus. Mngr: Monroe Froehlich, Jr
all quoting 270 Park Ave., NYC
Owners: 20th Century Comics Corp, Jerome A. Perles, Morris Siegel, all quoting 270 Park Ave., NYC again. signed: Monroe Froehlich, Jr
Tess Harwood, Notary public No. 08-6797825 (Bronx County) 9th September 1952
The Man in the Morgue
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Vic Dowling
- Inks
- Vic Dowling
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-826
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A hoodlum spends his last buck for a psychic reading and is told that his luck will change. After spending the night in an alley with nothing to eat an elderly man approaches him and he strangles him in order to rob him. The cops give chase and gun him down. The police wonder why the elderly man was in such a run down area and look through his papers to discover he was a lawyer looking for the hoodlum who killed him in order to inform him that he had just come into a large inheritance.
- Reprints
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #14 (1960)
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #23 (November 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Dowling credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com.
Lost!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pete Tumlinson
- Inks
- Pete Tumlinson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-749
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Criminals hide loot in a cave and one is arrested and serves a jail sentence of twenty years. When he is released he goes back to the cave and shoots the man and woman who were lost in there for twenty years, but their son kills him.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #12 (1961)
- in Spellbound Album (L. Miller & Son, 1964 series) (1964)
- in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #22 (October 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Tumlinson credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Jim Mooney.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Man in the Morgue!
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1.
The Specimen!
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2.
Hunger
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3.
Ashes to Ashes!
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4.
The Broken Step
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5.
Statement of Ownership
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6.
The Man in the Morgue
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7.
Lost!
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Ethan Hoddes
- Tony R. Rose
- Nick Caputo
- Guy Budziak
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Jim Walls
- Tony R. Rose
- Thomas G. Lammers
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