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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published October 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

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

4 page story "The Shadow"

Synopsis When a man's rival slugs him and he falls and breaks his neck, he doesn't realize that he's dead until he notices the absence of his shadow. Eventually he spies the shadow and it darts away from him. He gives chase and pursues it back to the cemetery and his grave.
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

6 page story "The Man Who Never Was"

Synopsis A man who conceives of Death as a person is wiped out of existence along with his friends.
Genre Horror; Mystery
Pencils John Romita? (ghost) [as Les Zakarin (signed)]
Inks John Romita? (ghost) [as Les Zakarin (signed)]
Notes Per Les Zakarin, he never penciled a comic book story. He farmed out the pencil work to ghosts, inked the stories, and signed them himself (as per Jim Amash's conversation with Zakarin, October 27, 2004).
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

2 page text story "Trapped In the Cave of Horror"

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

6 page story "Invisible Death"

Synopsis Invisible invaders from the planet Mondu are thwarted by a blind man who can sense their presence.
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Bill Walton?
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

2 page story "The Madman"

Synopsis A man is turned invisible by a spiteful poltergeist.
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

5 page story "Voodoo"

Synopsis A man gets a voodoo practitioner to cause his wife to die, but when he finds out she has inherited a large sum of money, he asks the practitioner to call off the spell. She finds out he tried to have her killed and gets the voodoo practitioner to give her husband the treatment.
Pencils Bill LaCava
Inks Bill LaCava
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1