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Issue: Adventures into Terror #17
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #17 of 31 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Atlas [black & white]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Current Detective Stories, Inc.
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: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Stan Lee
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Sam Kweskin; Carl Burgos (see notes)
Inker(s): Sam Kweskin; Carl Burgos (see notes)
Colorist(s): Stan Goldberg
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg. Sidebar art by Carl Burgos.
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I Die Too Often

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Gil Kane
Inker(s): Gil Kane ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death...until he hears the warden summon his ghost from its grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #5 published September 1973
as I Die Too Often [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-933
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The Window

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Howard Stevens
Synopsis: A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Tales #62 published April 1958
as The Window [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: B-959
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The Vandals!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: When four vandals enter a museum at night to cut off the gold heads from a hydra idol, they end with their heads placed upon the evil idol.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-947
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Casper's Boss!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Landau (signed)
Inker(s): Ken Landau
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: When his smoker boss doesn't lend him the money he needs for his wife's operation and she dies, a man ties the smoker up in a shed filled with explosives.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-852
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They Don't Complain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sam Kweskin (signed)
Inker(s): Sam Kweskin (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: This story postulates that dead people remain aware and sensate during their autopsies.
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In Content Item: FlagFrankenstein #14 [Regular Edition] published January 1975
as They Don't Complain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Job Number: B-921/971?
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Red as a Lobster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Inker(s): Jim Mooney (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Lobsters get their revenge on a diver who likes to boil them alive in order to observe their suffering by herding him into a hot-spring.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrypt of Shadows #5 published September 1973
as Red as a Lobster [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Job Number: B-784
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Statement of ownership: Current Detective Stories; Editor: Stan Lee; Managing editor: Martin Goodman; Business manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.; Owners: Current Detective Stories, Martin Goodman, Jerome A. Perles, Morris Siegel; Notary public: Tess Harwood, signed 8 September 1952

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