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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published April 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Enter These Weird Worlds"

Genre horror
Pencils Manny Stallman ?
Inks Manny Stallman ?
Notes Shows Independent Distributor logo. Shows ACMP (American Comic Magazine Publishers) Seal of Approval. Credit information from www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "He Walks With a Ghost!"

Synopsis A thug inherits an estate that has a cemetery on it so he hires a steam shovel to dig it up. When the worker uncovers human remains, he runs away frightened. The thug gets up into the cab himself to disinter the remains, but grows weary with the work after awhile and sits down under a tree to sleep. He is woken by the sound of the steam shovel but is puzzled as to who could be driving it. It bears down upon him and just before the claw descends, he sees corpses through the cab window.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Myron Fass ?
Reprinted in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 February 1974

2 page text story "Come into My Parlor"

Genre science fiction
Letters typeset
Notes spot illustration

4 page story "The Man from Mars!"

Synopsis A scientist who observes a flying saucer builds a device to establish contact with the Martians in order to ask them if he could go with them to Mars to avoid the likely atomic war on Earth. When a saucer lands and he gets to ask his question, the Martian laughs and shows him a picture of constant warfare on Mars. He says "We've been flying over Earth to see if we could settle here."
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Fred Kida
Inks Jack Abel ?
Notes The Fred Kida ink credit replaced with "Jack Abel ?" based on information from www.atlastales.com.

5 page story "This Way Out"

Synopsis In a hospital prison ward a condemned killer's other occupant in the room tells him that there are no bars on the window. The killer attempts to escape through the window, but the other patient in the room turns out to be Death and the window looks into the execution chamber. The killer's heart gives out.
Genre horror
Pencils Carmine Infantino; Carl Burgos (last panel only)
Inks Carmine Infantino; Carl Burgos (last panel only)
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #3

3 page story "The Nightmare!"

Synopsis A woman relates her nightmare to her psychologist of living a very ordinary housewife routine. The last panel reveals she is a witch with an abnormal desire to live as a regular person seeking treatment from her warlock psychologist.
Genre horror
Reprinted in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 February 1974

6 page story "The Gentlemen of the Jury!"

Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath (signed)
Inks Russ Heath (signed)