Marvel Tales
#118
(September 1953)
Marvel,
1949 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
- Marvel Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
A World Goes Mad!/Moon Madness!/The Spotted Death!/The Magic Word!
cover / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Art credits per Atlastales.com and Nick Caputo.
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
Moon Madness!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Inks
- Russ Heath (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-342
- Synopsis
- A newspaper magnate wishes to build a private rocket to the moon in order to secure mineral rights so he spreads tales of the moon being the source of werewolves to get public pressure hindering the government's moon effort. It works, but when he arrives on the moon, he finds that everything he thought was a lie was in fact true.
Typhoid
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- C-342
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A couple come up with a fraud scheme to collect a life insurance policy during a typhoid outbreak and then actually encounter a carrier on the train they are leaving town on in order to spend the money in another state.
Indexer Notes
Art credits per Atlas Tales.
Polio Precautions
public service announcement / 0.33 page
Indexer Notes
Information from www.atlastales.com.
Noah
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- C-976
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- This time, Noah and his space ark leave Earth because of a protracted drought.
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits from atlastales.com
Story inspired by the Bible: Genesis 6-9
The Magic Word
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Briefer (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Briefer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-901
- Characters
- Rashu (fakir)
- Synopsis
- A magician threatens the life of a fakir unless he reveals his levitation trick so he gives him the magic word to rise but doesn't tell him the word to descend.
When a World Went Mad!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (signed)
- Inks
- Gene Colan (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-889
- Synopsis
- A scientist gives the world a serum which grants immortal life, but without the fear of death, atomic war breaks out and ruins civilization.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
A World Goes Mad!/Moon Madness!/The Spotted Death!/The Magic Word!
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1.
Moon Madness!
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2.
Typhoid
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3.
The Infernal Coach
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4.
Polio Precautions
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5.
Noah
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6.
The Magic Word
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7.
When a World Went Mad!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Michael Hoskin
- Per Sandell
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