Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1950
Editing: Stan Lee (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) #44 [2] Edit Cover
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Won’t You Step into My Parlor…? / The Strangers! / No Escape! / The Creeping Vine!
(Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Carl Burgos ? (main image and panels)
Inks:
Carl Burgos ? (main image and panels)
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
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Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Issue Data

Given Premiums - Cash
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Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve / advertisement / 1 page

The Stranger
(Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:7773
Synopsis:
A scientist invents a formula for eternal life. While he goes into town to find some rats and guinea pigs to test the formula on, his assistant back at the lab tests it on his wife and kids causing them to mutate into monsters. The assistant is horribly scarred by the mutated wife of the scientist and flees. When the scientist gets back to his lab and sees what has happened, he destroys the formula and keeps his now mutated family locked in a room in his mansion.
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What You Can Do About Hair Loss
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Comate / advertisement / 1 page

The Creeping Vine
(Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 4 pages

Script:
?
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:7739
Synopsis:
A botanist receives a strange plant from a colleague in South America that he raises in his greenhouse. The plant gives off a horrible odour and consumes meat. Whenever it eats something, it spawns a new flower which is the same color as the food it ate. Later when the family dog goes missing, he sees that a new flower is the same spotted color as the dog. Realizing that the plant is dangerous he decides to destroy it. When he doesn't return, his wife goes to the greenhouse to check on him and sees a new flower that is the same color as her husband!
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Indexer Notes

This 1951 story is very similar to the latter 1960 film "The Little Shop of Horrors".

No Escape
(Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages

Script:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:7762
Synopsis:
A poor man who shares identical looks with a rich man murders his butler and acquires his job after donning a disguise in order to study the mannerisms of the wealthy man. After completing his study, he murders the wealthy man and takes his place. He finds out that the man had a history of mental imbalance after his cousin and lawyer commit him to an insane asylum.
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[no title indexed]
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Lionel Trains / advertisement / 1 page

Out of the Past
(Table of Contents: 7)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:5645
Synopsis:
Mark Winter's car breaks down one night in Virginia during a storm and he enters a 19th century looking mansion for shelter. The woman and man who live there have an old quaint feel to them in terms of their dress and mannerisms. When Mark mentions he's from Boston the man tries to kill him but the woman tries to stop him and she's shot to death instead. Mark flees into the night. The next morning he sees the mansion all old and dilapidated and a local tells him a man killed his wife back during the Civil War when she tried to protect a soldier from Boston!
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Shop by Mail
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Arizona Rings; Five Star Music; Lectro Paint Peeler; Life-Study Prayer Message; Pistol Lighter; Stewart Co. Name Ring; Western Saddle Horse Figurine / advertisement / 1 page

Stamps; Shop by Mail
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Arizona Rings; Badger Stamps; Belmont Stamps; Bohemia Stamps; Bookman Stamps; Brahma Magnetic Lodestones; Brown Stamps; Bryson Stamps; Capital Stamps; Cartoonists' Exchange Book; Chemcraft Chemistry Sets [Porter]; Dixie Stamps; Ensign Stamps; Garcelon Stamps; Globus Stamps; Harem Co. Rings; Infant of Prague Statue; Jamestown Stamps; Kenmore Stamps; Littleton Stamps; Maryland Stamps; Modern Stamps; Mystic Stamps; Plymouth Specialty Stamps; Potomac Stamps; Raymax Stamps; Seminole Stamps; Tatham Stamps and Coins; Triboro Stamps; Vogue Emblems and Labels; Waynesco Stamps / advertisement / 1 page

The Storm
(Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 7 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:7797
Synopsis:
People can only leave the house of terrors upon the hill when new victims seek shelter from the storm in order to replace them.
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Indexer Notes

Cover story.

[no title indexed]
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Television Bank / advertisement / 1 page

The Classroom Secret
(Table of Contents: 12)

public service announcement / 1 page

Script:
?
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?

[New Silk-finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-tooled Frame]
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Hollywood Film Studios Enlargements / advertisement / 1 page

Blackheads "Pet Hate"
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 14)

Vacutex Blackhead Remover / advertisement / 1 page

Will You Let Me Prove I Can Make You a New Man?
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 15)

Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Reduce Keep Slim at Home
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Spot Reducer / Body Massager / advertisement / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. Won’t You Step into My Parlor…? / The Strangers! / No Escape! / The Creeping Vine!
  2. Given Premiums - Cash
    Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve
  3. The Stranger
  4. What You Can Do About Hair Loss
    Comate
  5. The Creeping Vine
  6. No Escape
  7. ["They're a million miles ahead of everything!"]
    Lionel Trains
  8. Out of the Past
  9. Shop by Mail
    Arizona Rings; Five Star Music; Lectro Paint Peeler; Life-Study Prayer Message; Pistol Lighter; Stewart Co. Name Ring; Western Saddle Horse Figurine
  10. Stamps; Shop by Mail
    Arizona Rings; Badger Stamps; Belmont Stamps; Bohemia Stamps; Bookman Stamps; Brahma Magnetic Lodestones; Brown Stamps; Bryson Stamps; Capital Stamps; Cartoonists' Exchange Book; Chemcraft Chemistry Sets [Porter]; Dixie Stamps; Ensign Stamps; Garcelon Stamps; Globus Stamps; Harem Co. Rings; Infant of Prague Statue; Jamestown Stamps; Kenmore Stamps; Littleton Stamps; Maryland Stamps; Modern Stamps; Mystic Stamps; Plymouth Specialty Stamps; Potomac Stamps; Raymax Stamps; Seminole Stamps; Tatham Stamps and Coins; Triboro Stamps; Vogue Emblems and Labels; Waynesco Stamps
  11. The Storm
  12. ["The show's on, gang!"]
    Television Bank
  13. The Classroom Secret
  14. [New Silk-finish Enlargement, Ivory Gold-tooled Frame]
    Hollywood Film Studios Enlargements
  15. Blackheads "Pet Hate"
    Vacutex Blackhead Remover
  16. Will You Let Me Prove I Can Make You a New Man?
    Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
  17. Reduce Keep Slim at Home
    Spot Reducer / Body Massager
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