Issue | #26 |
Published | March 1954 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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) |
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 |
Synopsis | In 1980 men build a colony on the moon. |
Pencils | Carmine Infantino |
Inks | Sy Barry |
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 |