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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published May 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

7 page story "John Doe"

Synopsis A criminal attempts to steal an inventor's robot so that he can sell it, but when he attempts to rub out the inventor's daughter, the robot attacks and kills him.
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

2 page text story "The Apple Orchard"

Letters typeset

6 page story "The Saucers Strike"

Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Notes A similar story to the first story in Tales to Astonish #29

5 page story "Witch-Hunt"

Synopsis The devil is annoyed with a do-gooder who drives away his witches so he assumes the guise of an official of the kingdom and has her sent to the stake.
Pencils Larry Woromay
Inks Matt Fox

5 page story "Boris and the Bomb"

Synopsis A Russian atomic scientist gets revenge upon the communists who killed his family by making the first soviet hydrogen bomb appear to be a dud until they come within range and then he ignites it.
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan