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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published August 1952
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Drink Deep, Vampire!"

Genre horror
Pencils Sol Brodsky
Inks Sol Brodsky

5 page story "Blind Date"

Synopsis A man walks out of a bar and sees a beautiful redhead sitting in a convertible waiting for someone. He hits on her. She tells him that she is waiting for an older wealthy man and asks him to leave but he refuses and gets in the car. She says 'Very well' and careens off. He becomes frightened and tells her to slow down and she does not. When he glances over at her, he screams, for he sees a skeleton that tells him he has stolen a blind date with Death as the car heads straight for the side of a mountain.
Genre horror
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Vic Carrabotta?
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (May 1973)

2 page text story "Death Finds a Way"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #1 (June 1952)

4 page story "The Strange Game"

Synopsis A man stumbles over a card game where four strange characters are playing for body parts.
Pencils Marty Elkin
Inks Marty Elkin

3 page story "The Man From Mars"

Synopsis A deadbeat wants to see a movie called 'The Man from Mars' but since he doesn't bother to get a job, he's broke and has no money. When he sees a rocket ship with a sign outside that reads "Be the First to see Mars" he thinks it's a promotion for the picture and enters, hoping to get to see the movie for free. Suddenly, the rocket blasts off and he passes out from the acceleration. When he revives, he finds himself a captive in a Martian zoo.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bob Fujitani
Inks Bob Fujitani
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (May 1973)

6 page story "Drink Deep, Vampire"

Synopsis A business man attempts to swindle a coven of vampires by draining their blood every day and selling it back to them every evening.
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Reprinted In Dracula Lives #2 (1973)

5 page story "The Voice of Doom"

Synopsis A publisher has communication devices installed in every cubicle so he can fire his employees when they badmouth him. One day, he hears a voice that threatens him with eternal torments in Hell. He demands to know who is speaking and a grinning skull emanates from the device to claim him.
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (May 1973); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #55