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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published August 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Sol Brodsky?
Inks Don Rico?
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

7 page story "The Egg"

Synopsis Aliens send eggs which disgorge a toxic substance when opened.
Pencils Morris Marcus
Inks Frank R. Siemienski
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

2 page text story "Fear Is Your Fortune"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

7 page story "Trapped In the Tomb"

Synopsis A scientist invents a box which can teleport a person's spirit and loans it to a friend. The friend decides to kill his wife and use the box's ability to establish an alibi of being somewhere else at the moment of the crime, but his wife gets the idea first.
Pencils Norman Steinberg
Inks Norman Steinberg
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

4 page story "The Pin"

Synopsis A scientist invents a serum which reduces age without affecting the mind. He finds himself an infant but he develops a transfer formula which he places in a pin in order to stick someone with the same blood type and steal their years.
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

5 page story "The Island of Madmen"

Synopsis Two men and a woman find themselves stranded on an island that is supposed to be inhabited by a demon and one man is killed but it turns out that the woman is the monster.
Pencils Ed Moore
Inks Ed Moore
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1