(August 1951)

Marvel, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1951-04-08
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Chipiden Publishing Corp.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1951 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

Trapped in a Tomb! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Sol Brodsky ?
Inks
Sol Brodsky ?
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
?
Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Credits per Michael J. Vassallo from info in Atlas Era: Strange Tales # 1. Previous indexer credited Don Rico with inks.

Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

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The Egg! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Marcus Morris ?
Inks
Frank Sieminsky
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek
Job Number
7528
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Alexander Laurier; Humphrey Devonshire; Higgins; Bartlow; Walter Briggs
Synopsis
Aliens send eggs which disgorge a toxic substance when opened.
Reprints

Fear Is Your Fortune (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
8372
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Johnny Grant; Bill
Reprints

Trapped in the Tomb! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Norman Steinberg (signed as Norman Steinberg)
Inks
Norman Steinberg (signed as Norman Steinberg)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
8418
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Hiram Lapham; George Orris; Helen Orris
Synopsis
A scientist invents a box which can teleport a person's spirit and loans it to a friend. The friend decides to kill his wife and use the box's ability to establish an alibi of being somewhere else at the moment of the crime, but his wife gets the idea first.
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The Pin! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
Inks
Russ Heath (signed as Russ Heath)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
8483
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Walter; Buster [Professor Lungham]
Synopsis
A scientist invents a serum which reduces age without affecting the mind. He finds himself an infant but he develops a transfer formula which he places in a pin in order to stick someone with the same blood type and steal their years.
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The Island of Madness (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ed Moore (signed)
Inks
Ed Moore (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
8152
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Jim; Alice; Fred
Synopsis
Two men and a woman find themselves stranded on an island that is supposed to be inhabited by a demon and one man is killed but it turns out that the woman is the monster.
Reprints
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Trapped in a Tomb!
  2. 1. The Egg!
  3. 2. Fear Is Your Fortune
  4. 3. Trapped in the Tomb!
  5. 4. The Pin!
  6. 5. The Island of Madness
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  • Bill Borre
  • David Bruce
  • Nick Caputo
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Steve Dasinger
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Steve Jenner
  • Lou Mazzella
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