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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published April 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

6 page story "Uninhabited"

Synopsis The moon is a living organism like Ego, the living planet.
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

4 page story "Eyes of March"

Synopsis A man gets a pair of glasses which make everyone appear to have his own face. When he breaks them in order to get another pair, the second pair make everyone look like the lenscrafter.
Pencils Sy Grudko
Inks Sy Grudko

2 page text story "Death of a Vampire"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Adventures Into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #21 (July 1953) [as "The Lady Is a Vampire"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

3 page story "The Back Door"

Synopsis A salesman tries to make a pitch to the dead of a funeral parlor but they tell him that they buy nothing and stay for free. He wants to get in on the deal and they show him to his own personal...coffin.
Pencils Pete Morisi
Inks Pete Morisi

5 page story "The Killers"

Synopsis Scientists invent a virus which turns people into crazy killers without reflection in mirrors. A reporter thinks that the virus has infected his boss because she won't keep mirrors around the office, so he strangles her, but it turns out she just didn't want to be reminded of her age. The reporter has unknowingly been infected with the virus and has been committing killings that he is unaware of.
Pencils Harry Lazarus
Inks Harry Lazarus

5 page story "The Ugly Man"

Synopsis A convicted killer gets three wishes Monkey's Paw style.
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel