(April 1952)
Marvel,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Interstate Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
- Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What're ya scared about Tim?
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Spider Bailey
- Keywords
- locomotives; trains
Indexer Notes
Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.
Spider Bailey
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska (signed)
- Inks
- George Tuska (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- 9537
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Spider Bailey
- Synopsis
- Born to a wealthy family but mocked for his appearance, Spider is raised in Canada by Paul but finally tires of his abuse and kills him. Fleeing to Utah and becoming an expert shooter, Spider kills Kern and takes over his gang. Spider has his gang tunnel beneath a bank in order to rob it, but decides to slowly kill off his gang so he can have the loot to himself. When the gang realize what he's doing they have a shootout and Spider is killed.
- Reprints
-
in Texas Kid Comics (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #2 ([1952]) -
in Western Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #3 (January 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
info per Atlas Tales.
Tale of a Jail
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill La Cava (illustration)
- Inks
- Bill La Cava (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- 9640
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
info per Atlas Tales.
The Man with No Face
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 9725
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- An unseen stage robber commits various killings. After Marve is killed Tex finds Marve drew a star in the dirt while dying. Tex realizes Vince is the killer and confronts him, during which he finally shoots Vince in the face with a shotgun.
- Reprints
- in Texas Kid Comics (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #2 ([1952])
- in Western Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #2 (December 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
info per Atlas Tales.
Gun Crazy!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 9704
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- Bart is young and ambitious, determined to seize control of Hardy's gang. He tries to ambush Hardy while the man's hand is bandaged, but Hardy was prepared for him and shoots a gun from within his bandages to kill Bart.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
info per Atlas Tales.
I Got Away with Murder
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- 8763
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- A criminal runs from the police into the desert only to be swallowed up by quicksand.
- Reprints
- in Texas Kid Comics (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #2 ([1952])
-
in Texas Kid (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #18 ([June 1953]) - in Western Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #3 (January 1955)
-
- Keywords
- quicksand
Indexer Notes
info per Atlas Tales.
The Ghost Train
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 9724
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Synopsis
- The Mormons tire of the high prices Mason charges and build their own railroad. Mason sabotages their efforts and finally captures the train, but accidentally drives it off the tracks, destroying it.
- Reprints
- in Texas Kid Comics (Thorpe & Porter, 1952 series) #2 ([1952])
- in Texas Kid (Horwitz, 1950 ? series) #14 ([February 1953])
- in Western Thrillers (Marvel, 1954 series) #2 (December 1954)
- in The Rawhide Kid (Marvel, 1960 series) #110 (April 1973)
-
- Keywords
- Mormons
Indexer Notes
Possible Broderick pencils per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["What're ya scared about Tim?"]
-
1.
Spider Bailey
-
2.
Tale of a Jail
-
3.
The Man with No Face
-
4.
Gun Crazy!
-
5.
I Got Away with Murder
-
6.
The Ghost Train
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Michael Hoskin
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Warren Zeigler
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