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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published August 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Sol Brodsky
Inks Sol Brodsky

5 page story "The Man Who Cried Vampire"

Synopsis A rancher tries to get rid of his wife by telling stories of vampires out amongst the cattle in order to shock her, but what he doesn't know is that she herds vampire cows so that she can make money by preying off the neighbor's cattle.
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

2 page text story "Sorcerer's Justice"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Venus (Marvel, 1948 series) #18 (February 1952) [originally titled "Beware...the Catwoman's Revenge"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "Ball of Fire"

Synopsis A meteorite fuses itself to missing fragments.
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

3 page story "The Last Flying Saucer"

Synopsis An alien brings the secret of eternal life, but fearful humans blow up his flying saucer.
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Letters Bill Everett

5 page story "The Man From Tomorrow"

Synopsis In the year 2053 mutants from the atomic war attempt to prevent a time traveler from returning to 1953.
Pencils John Forte

5 page story "The Monkey Glands"

Synopsis A man takes a serum of monkey glands in order to be sure that he will outlive his brother and inherit the estate but it turns him into an ape-like creature.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman