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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published March 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Carl Burgos ?; Jack Katz ?
Inks Carl Burgos ?; Jack Katz ?
Letters typeset
Notes Original indexer suggested Stan Goldberg as penciller and inker but Goldberg declined the credit in an e-mail to Tony Isabella forwarded to the GCD. Burgos credit from atlastales.com; Katz credit from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.

4 page story "The Last Stop"

Synopsis When a gangster carries out a mob hit, he unintentionally catches his wife and children in the crossfire.
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan

4 page story "Guinea Pig"

Synopsis When a scientist rockets his assistant into space, aliens capture the craft and inject the man with a serum that increases his strength and drives him mad. They send the rocket back the way it came and the assistant kills the scientist.
Pencils Jack Katz
Inks Jack Katz

2 page text story "The Busybody"

Characters Mrs. Miller; Jean Matsen; Fred Johnson; Harold Trimble; Carolyn Harris
Synopsis A cruel landlady steals her tenant's mail to trick her into doing extra chores, but when she eats chocolates sent to the girl she finds out too late that they were poisoned by a jealous lover.
Genre horror
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #64 (August 1958); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (2010)

5 page story "A Grave Mistake"

Synopsis A gangster makes a union out of gravediggers and when he calls a strike to force the relatives to bury their own dead, the corpses bury him.
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

5 page story "To the Stars"

Synopsis In 1980 men build a colony on the moon.
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Sy Barry

5 page story "It Could Be You"

Synopsis This story postulates that the reader has been equipped with a bomb and a posthypnotic suggestion by aliens to blow up the president.
Pencils Vic Carrabotta
Inks Vic Carrabotta