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Issue: Menace #3
Publication Date: May 1953
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Indicia Publisher: Hercules Publishing Corporation
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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The Werewolf

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
as Menace #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Men in Black

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Jim Horton; Marion Horton; Gonzales; Luigi; Reilly; Hooded Bigots [Rocky; Pete]
After losing his job, Jim Horton organizes a gang that wears black hoods to beat and rob anyone he considers "foreign," but his bigotry leads to his death.
Reprinting
FlagUncanny Tales #4 published June 1974
as Men in Black [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
as Men in Black [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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7
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Narrated in the second person. The writer and artist of this story about anti-immigrant prejudice were the children of Jewish and Italian immigrants, respectively. This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959) as "I Am the Man Without a Face!" drawn by Joe Sinnott, and in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (January 1962) as "The Hidden Face" drawn by Steve Ditko.
The Urge to Kill

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
as The Urge to Kill [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagStrange Tales #9 published August 1952illustration, from "The Strange Game"
 
Miscellaneous
2
C-461
Werewolf!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
horror
A man goes into the forest in order to find proof of werewolves and is attacked. He shoots the beast and returns home to his shrew wife, but he has been bitten, so she screams as he begins to transform. She shoots him in the back with a shotgun but he tears out her throat before he dies.
Reprinting
FlagChamber of Chills #11 published July 1974
as Werewolf! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
as Werewolf! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
C-482
Rodeo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
A rodeo clown tries to get rid of his rival by pretending to trip and failing to distract the bull when the rival is thrown off the bull during the riding event. What the clown fails to realize is that the bull resents him more than the rider for all the times in the past he has distracted it by leaping into a protective barrel where the bull's horns can't get him. The bull sees its opportunity and gores the clown.
Reprinting
FlagChamber of Chills #15 published March 1975
as Rodeo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
as Rodeo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
5
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You're Gonna Live Forever

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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?
Subject Matter
horror
A gangster drinks a serum that will allow him to live forever and goes to hide out in the bayou where he falls into a pit of quicksand.
Reprinting
FlagWeird Wonder Tales #8 [unnamed variant] published February 1975
as You're Gonna Live Forever [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThor e i Vendicatori #131 published April 1976
as Vivo per l'eternità [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagMarvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace #1 [Regular Edition] published October 2009
as You're Gonna Live Forever [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
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