Issue | #8 |
Published | February 1952 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | Horror |
Synopsis | A man discovers a type of werelizard that reproduces its kind by injecting humans with a poison in its bite that transforms their bodies. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Harry Lazarus |
Inks | Dick Beck (?); Christopher Rule (?) |
Notes | Inker is believed to be either Dick Beck or Christopher Rule. |
Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #9 |
Genre | horror |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #10 (July 1953) [as "The Ghost of Nesterfield Hall"] |
Genre | Horror |
Script | Hank Chapman |
Pencils | Bill Walton |
Inks | Bill Walton (?) |
Synopsis | A man tries to kill himself over and over again but only succeeds in producing pain and mutilation, not the longed for oblivion. A friend of his informs him that he is already dead, for he committed suicide a year ago, and has been sent to Hell where all suicides reside. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Manny Stallman |
Inks | Manny Stallman (?) |
Reprinted | in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #5; in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #97 |
Synopsis | A criminal in a bar at night sees a stranger doing wondrous things and so he pulls a gun and demands to know how they are done. The stranger says that if he wants these powers all he needs to do is agree to exchange places with him. He does so and commits various crimes with his new powers, but once the morning begins to arrive, he feels drawn to a cemetery and realizes that he has exchanged places with a ghost. |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Bill LaCava |
Inks | Bill LaCava (?) |
Reprinted | in Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 [under the title: "Ghost of a Chance"] |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
Inks | Joe Sinnott (?) |