While artists like Lee Elias, Warren Kremer and Don Heck were designing horrific covers that would become legendary in pre-Code horror comics, over at Atlas, Stan Lee was cranking out reams of stories. While they eventually became formulaic, no one can deny that they were nearly always well-written.
Publisher Martin Goodman was a harsh taskmaster and kept his staff at Atlas busy. As a result, the imprint sold more titles (18) and released almost 400 single issues (see FIFC reference page HERE) than any other publisher during the pre-Code years. One of them was called MENACE and ran for 11 issues from 1953-1954 before it was cancelled, another casualty of the Comics Code Authority.
MENACE
Vol. 1 No. 1
March 1953
Hercules Publishing Corp. (Atlas Comics)
Editor: Stan Lee
Cover: Bill Everett
Pages: 36
Cover price: 10 cents
CONTENTS
"One Head Too Many!"
Script: Stan Lee
Art: Bill Everett
"The Man Who Couldn't Move"
Script: Stan Lee
Art: George Tuska
"Poor Mr. Watkins"
Script: Stan Lee
Art: Werner Roth
"The Wait In Their... Dungeon!"
Script: Stan Lee
Art: Russ Heath