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Issue Details

Issue #65
Published October 1958
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in May 1958. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. The stories in this issue all bear the logo reading "A Tale of Mystery to Hold You Spellbound!" used by the cancelled Spellbound (Marvel, 1952 series) perhaps indicating that this was built on an unpublished pre-implosion issue. Information on this issue supplied by Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "Afraid To Open the Door!"

Characters Morse; John Hayes
Genre horror
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Notes John Hayes is a ghost on the cover, but not in the story.

4 page story "Afraid To Open the Door!"

Characters Morse; John Hayes
Synopsis A thief trying to rob a reclusive scientist finds him in a room with two doors. The scientist tells him if he leaves through the wrong door he will be trapped in a shadow world of strange creatures so the criminal decides to wait until someone else enters by one of the doors so that he knows which one leads back to the ordinary world.
Genre horror
Pencils Dan Loprino
Inks Dan Loprino

3 page story "The House That Cried!"

Characters Smitty; Elvira Lanson; Luke Lanson (flashback); Fred (flashback); Helen (flashback); Tony Fargo (flashback)
Synopsis A hobo tries to rob an old woman in a dilapidated house who turns out to be a ghost.
Genre occult
Pencils Christopher Rule
Inks Christopher Rule
Notes Pencil and ink credits of J. Makowski ? changed based on information from Tom Lammers and the Atlas/Timely discussion list.

4 page story "The Ragged Man"

Characters Otis Larr; Hubert Larr; Annie
Synopsis A heartless businessman gets what's coming to him when the geiger counter he keeps on his yacht goes off and he spends all his money buying worthless land because he thinks that there is a fortune in uranium underwater. It turns out that there was a nuclear sub under his yacht at the time.
Genre drama
Pencils Richard Doxsee
Inks Richard Doxsee

4 page story "The Terrible Tree!"

Characters Ross Evans
Synopsis A man weakens a large redwood tree so that it will fall on his farm and he can collect on the insurance policy. Objects made from the tree pursue vengeance upon him, until he finds himself trapped on a boat made of the tree out at sea.
Genre occult
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

4 page story "The Perfectly Frightened Man"

Characters Bob Franklin; Helen Franklin
Synopsis A man is convinced by his wife that he is the victim of a hoax designed to make him think he has inherited sorcerous powers, but when he says "I'll be a monkey's uncle", he turns into one.
Genre occult
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale

2 page text story "The Missing Film"

Characters Dr. Title; Douglas Jenks
Synopsis A government agent retrieves a classified microfilm stolen to be given to enemy agents, and is helped by a magic bridge.
Genre spy; occult
Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Adventure Into Mystery (Marvel, 1956 series) #7 (May 1957)

4 page story "When the Curtain Falls!"

Characters Otto Groat; Carlotta Delys; Richard Sinclair
Synopsis A jealous stagehand swaps a real dagger for a rubber prop hoping that his actor rival will stab himself and he will be free to pursue his love interest without competition. The actor only scratches himself, however, and when the stagehand becomes trapped he fails to free himself in time armed with merely a rubber dagger.
Genre horror
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily