(August 1957)
Marvel,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Warwick Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Information for this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion group
The Five Sinister Statues!
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Everett (signed)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.
The Perfect Hide-out
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Bolle (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- M-286
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A thief who wears a mask during his crime reveals his face and his crimes to a mute old woman whom he thinks cannot give him away to the police as he hides in her apartment, but she sews his likeness and a list of his crimes as he details them to her. He has murdered the woman's son, and his ghost takes the sewing from her crippled body and drops it off at police headquarters, leading to the cops shooting dead the thief as he attempts to flee them.
- Reprints
-
in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #18 (April 1975)
-
The Rag Doll!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- M-279
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Fred Miller; Alice Miller
- Synopsis
- A man is angry at his daughter's rag doll because his father gave it to her and he is mad at his father because he hid his money and died without telling the son where it was. When they move away, he insists the doll be left behind, but it follows them to their new home. He resolves to tear up the doll to prevent it from returning, but his father's money falls out of it, and he realizes that is why it was following him. He lets his daughter keep the doll.
- Reprints
- in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #16 (April 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Possible Giella inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited George Roussos.
Untouched by Human Hands!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Inks
- Robert Q. Sale (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Letterese
- Job Number
- M-285
Robot's Holiday
text story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- K-132
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #38 (September 1956) [as "Robot's Holiday"]
-
Isolation
comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sol Brodsky (signed as Solly)
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky (signed as Solly)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- M-236
The Five Sinister Statues
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Richard Doxsee (signed)
- Inks
- Richard Doxsee (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- M-387
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Five Sinister Statues!
-
1.
The Perfect Hide-out
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2.
The Rag Doll!
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3.
Twenty Long Years
-
4.
Untouched by Human Hands!
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5.
Robot's Holiday
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6.
Isolation
-
7.
The Five Sinister Statues
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Banks S. Robinson
- Gregory Roe
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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