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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published June 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Carl Burgos?
Inks Carl Burgos?
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

7 page story "The Strange Men"

Synopsis Doctor Lemut from Saturn discusses his plans for Earth conquest with a captured Navy pilot, but the man succeeds in escaping. Unfortunately for Earth, when the pilot attempts to warn his superior of impending attack the superior turns out to be one of Lemut's agents.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

6 page story "The Beast"

Synopsis An evil man is regressed into an ape and he attacks and kills the experimenter. The authorities capture and place him in a zoo.
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks Manny Stallman
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

2 page text story "Death!"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from War Comics (Marvel, 1950 series) #2 (February 1951) [originally titled "Shellshocked!"; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

5 page story "The Room That Didn't Exist"

Synopsis A man encounters the ghost of a woman in the forest who used to lure travelers to their doom back in 1616.
Notes splash page is used for the cover of this issue
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

5 page story "A Call In the Night"

Synopsis A TV repairman has a dream wherein his wife becomes the victim of a man who encases people in bronze. When he wakes, he finds the circumstances of the dream coming true.
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1