Menace #11
(May 1954)

Marvel, 1953 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Hercules Publishing Corporation
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

Detailed content information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V] (June 8, 2005).

Locked In! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Harry Anderson
Inks
Harry Anderson
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

I, the Robot (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Romita (signed)
Inks
John Romita (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese (sourced)

Job Number
D-922
Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction
Synopsis
A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal it after the robot has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.
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Keywords
robots

Indexer Notes

First apppearance and origin of M-11, the Human Robot of the Agents of Atlas.

Gambler's Haunt (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
D-925
Genre
horror-suspense
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A Fate Worse Than Death (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Sy Moskowitz (signed as Sy Moskowitz)
Inks
Sy Moskowitz (signed as Sy Moskowitz)
Colors
?
Letters
Ray Holloway (sourced)

Job Number
D-977
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A space explorer takes a poison capsule after learning a hideous female alien has selected him for her mate upon reaching her maturity day. When she reaches this day, she changes her form to that of an attractive Earth woman just as the regretful man gasps out his last breath.
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Only a Beast (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Eadeh
Inks
Al Eadeh
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
E-14
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A bed-ridden old man hates those who will inherit his money so he establishes hypnotic control of his dimwitted caretaker and convinces him that he loves the woman and her husband is mean to her, so he must kill those who harm the one he loves. He knifes the man, but the woman screams, so he is given the hypnotic command to strangle her. This makes him hate the old man since he has made him kill the one he loves so he tears his throat out like a beast.
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[Statement of Ownership] (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Stan Lee listed as editor.

Appears on second page of text story.

My Other Body! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Jack Katz (signed)
Inks
Jack Katz (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
D-915
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A man's conscience convinces him to steal money from a jewelry store for his girlfriend and then to commit suicide out of remorse for the act.
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Locked In! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Powell (signed)
Inks
Bob Powell (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
E-59
Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A woman trails after her husband for twenty years because, after they murdered a family, he skipped out on her with the loot. She kills Bill, but then the spirits appear and keep her prisoner in a filthy hovel, just like all those hermits she interviewed for twenty years while searching for her husband.
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Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Locked In!
  2. 1. I, the Robot
  3. 2. Gambler's Haunt
  4. 3. A Fate Worse Than Death
  5. 4. Only a Beast
  6. 5. [Statement of Ownership]
  7. 6. My Other Body!
  8. 7. Locked In!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Dwayne Best
  • Josh Blair
  • Bill Borre
  • Mark Bowen
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Steve Jenner
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Terry Vraspir