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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Detailed content information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V] (June 8, 2005).

Cover Details - "One Head Too Many!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)

7 page story "One Head Too Many!"

Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

2 page text story "Quest"

Genre horror
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1952 series) #1 (January 1955) [as "The Search!"]

5 page story "The Man Who Couldn't Move"

Synopsis A woman hires a man to kill her paralyzed husband making it look like a car accident, but he gets his sleeve caught in the door and goes over the cliff with the car. He survives, but winds up in the same situation as the woman's former husband.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Reprinted in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #2; in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #98

5 page story "Poor Mr. Watkins"

Synopsis A practical joker torments a timid librarian until he transforms into a monster.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #1

6 page story "They Wait In Their ... Dungeon"

Synopsis After an execution in the gas chamber, a sadistic warden faces a revolt by the inmates and attempts to flee downstairs. The inmates pursue him and, as the story ends, the warden realizes he has a choice between two dooms; the poisonous fumes still lingering in the execution chamber or being torn to shreds by the maddened inmates.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #1 (November 1972)