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Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) comic books 1953-1955

  • Issue #15
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 15
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4341806025
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Sol Brodsky. Stories by George Tuska, Side Greene, Sy Barry, and Jay Scott Pike. These tales of horror, sci-fi, and suspense will take you on Adventures into Alien Worlds! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 16
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #1100232020
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • 2.75" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple.
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    Kiss of Death, art by Tony DiPreta; A woman plans to get rid of her writer husband by taking him to a house supposedly haunted by vampires and shocking his bad heart. Mind over Matter, pencils by Bill Benulis, inks by Jack Abel; A man receives Yogi training to make objects disappear, and when his friend introduces him to Cartesian skeptical doubt, they both disappear. Daughter of Death text story. Flying Saucer, inks by Jack Abel. Surprise!, art by Jack Keller; An old man in love with a Gypsy girl murders his rival; The girl continues to moon over the dead man so a Gypsy woman offers to make the old man resemble the man he killed. The Old Man's Secret!, art by Jay Scott Pike. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #24
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 24
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #1462370011
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    Cover art by Bill Everett. The One Who Was Dead, art by Paul Reinman; A man uses life restore serum to revive Cleopatra, but it also works on the Asp that she used to commit suicide, and it bites him. The Trap text story. He Kidnapped a Rocket; A criminal hijacks a rocket, but unknown to him, its destination is a space prison colony. The Hunter; A hunter winds up on a planet where animals are the masters and place humans in zoos. Halfway Home!, art by Chuck Winter; A scientist aboard a rocket without enough fuel to reach Earth wants to use a device to reduce the weight of the crew by half; when he tests it on a monkey, it shrinks the monkey to half-size. Look Out for the Martians, art by John Forte; A man realizes that he is actually a Martian that has been incubated into a human infant and only becomes aware of his identity once maturity has been reached. Human agents called 'scanners' attempt to neutralize him, but fail. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #25
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 25
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4332210006
    • Cover-to-cover worm holes. Cover oxidation.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • INCOMPLETE. Last page and back cover missing, does not affect story.
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    "The Men From Mars," "Nightmare!" (art by Joe Sinnott), "A Million Light-Years Away" (art by Bill Everett), "Two Times Two!" (art by Paul Reinman), "The Mad Mamba!" (art by Joe Maneely), and a two-page text story, "A Man's Past." Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Joe Maneely. Stories by Bill Everett, Joe Sinnott, Sam Kweskin, Joe Maneely, and Paul Reinman. These tales of horror, sci-fi, and suspense will take you on Adventures into Alien Worlds! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #26
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 26

    Cover art by Joe Maneely. Good-Bye Earth, art by Paul Reinman; A man is confronted by an alien disguised as a human who reveals to him that he is actually one of them, deep undercover as a spy; He gives the man an injection that will bring his true nature to the surface in a matter of hours. The Robot that Hated, art by Al Eadeh; A scientist builds a robot attuned to his emotional impulses so that it kills a woman who rejected his proposal. When he demonstrates love towards the robot later that evening, it crushes him in a hug. The Edge of Madness, art by Tony DiPreta; A man and the werecreature half of his nature both are in love with the same woman and consider each other rivals, so when the evening transition between the two of them occurs, they fight each other to the death using knives to lacerate the body they both share. Beware of the Ghost text story. Menace from Mars!, art by Chuck Winter; A draft dodger heads for Mars to avoid being inducted into Earth's army, but the Martians are preparing for war as well, and since the Martians are not choosy the dodger and his pals get inducted into their army. The Dead, art by Dick Ayers; Passive zombies return to find that they are not wanted by their relatives and so they sadly leave. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #28
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 28
    • 1.5" Cumulative spine split. Staple rust. Rust migration.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
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    "Heads Will Roll" (art by Paul Reinman), "The Supreme Test," "In the Bag!" (art by Doug Wildey), "The Strange Shop!" (art by Ed Moline), "From the Dead" (art by Burlockott), and a two-page text story, "Voyage to Mars." Atom bomb story' decapitation panels. Edited by Stan Lee. Cover by Harry Anderson. Stories by Paul Reinman, Doug Wildey, Ed Moline, and Sam Burlockoff. These tales of horror, sci-fi, and suspense will take you on Adventures into Alien Worlds! 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #29
    Adventures into Weird Worlds (1952-1954 Marvel/Atlas) 29
    • Interior complete, but damaged along edges. Back cover and half of front cover missing.
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    Cover art by Joe Maneely. The Two-Timer; A man kills his wife and poses her body to make it appear that she committed suicide by gas inhalation but the police arrest him for murder because the gas company had cut off service for non-payment of the bill. Green Death text story. Eternal Life!, art by Bill Savage; A Martian suckers Earth people into exchanging planets because Mars is doomed to be struck by an incoming asteroid. The Locked Door, art by Al Eadeh; A grave robber is accosted by the ghosts of his victims. Bone Dry, art by Myron Fass; When a would-be native tyrant holds the location of a spring as a means of power for seizing chief status of his drought-stricken village, the villagers neglect to tell him of an incoming tidal wave and thus he perishes. Indestructible!, art by Hy Rosen; A man travels into the past to escape bugs but present-day humans are unable to open the capsule; The future bugs have even gotten into the time machine, however, and they succeed in opening it and pouring into the present day. 36 pgs. Cover price $0.10.