(June 1952)

Marvel, 1949 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
Marvel Comics Inc.
Brand
Atlas [black & white]
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

The Thing in the Sewer!/The Man with the Whip!/Trapped by the Dead!/The Glass Eye! (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bill Everett
Inks
Bill Everett
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
typeset

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Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

The Thing in the Sewer (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Fred Kida (signed as Kida)
Inks
Fred Kida (signed as Kida)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
A-73
Synopsis
A vampire fears a murderer's knife until he realizes that it is steel, not silver.
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The Strangler! (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
9900
Reprints

The Man With the Whip (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Inks
Ogden Whitney (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
A-125
Synopsis
A three-eyed, fanged freak is kept locked in the dungeon, but the boy has a normal mental development and so he hates his guardian. When the guardian forgets to lock him in, he takes the opportunity to kill the man as he sleeps. He resolves to go forward into the world to discover what it has to offer.

Indexer Notes

Job number from www.atlastales.com.

Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. (Table of Contents: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

For 1 Oct 1951. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Robert Solomon, Business Manager. (note from Tom Lammers)

Going My Way? (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bernie Krigstein
Inks
Bernie Krigstein
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
A-33
Reprints

Indexer Notes

A story similar to the Twilight Zone's "The Hitchhiker"

The Glass Eye (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Carl Wessler
Pencils
Allen Bellman (signed)
Inks
Allen Bellman (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
A-71
Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Harry Hull (villain, museum guard, death); Charlie Perkins (villain, museum guard, death)
Synopsis
When two museum guards plot to steal the gems from an idol's eye sockets, the idol cuts off their heads and plugs them into its eye sockets.

Indexer Notes

Wessler credit per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 20, No. 4, April 2009.

Trapped By the Dead! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Gene Colan (signed as G Colan)
Inks
Gene Colan (signed as G Colan)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
A-39
Synopsis
A man kills a wealthy relative whom he closely resembles to take his place. He resolves to tear down the old house and use some of the money to rebuild, but discovers to his regret, the reason his victim was wealthy in the first place was that he had murdered his business partner ten years ago and stashed the body in the wing of the house that the workmen had just exposed.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Thing in the Sewer!/The Man with the Whip!/Trapped by the Dead!/The Glass Eye!
  2. 1. The Thing in the Sewer
  3. 2. The Strangler!
  4. 3. The Man With the Whip
  5. 4. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
  6. 5. Going My Way?
  7. 6. The Glass Eye
  8. 7. Trapped By the Dead!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Bill Borre
  • Nick Caputo
  • Keith Chandler
  • Peter Croome
  • Craig Delich
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Ethan Hoddes
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell