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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published April 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 - "Burton's Blood"

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

7 page story "The Man in Black"

Synopsis A communist agent mistakes his contact for the man he is supposed to kill.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska
Reprinted In Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 August 1974

2 page text story "Fair Exchange"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset

6 page story "Burton's Blood!"

Synopsis A vampire sleeps for years after gorging on all the blood available to him in the atomic war of 1998. When he awakens and looks for another victim, he is astonished to find that humans died out long ago and only the human-like robots are left.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #11

5 page story "Rocket To The Moon"

Synopsis A lab assistant builds a rocket that will travel to the moon and volunteers to fly it, but his boss wants the credit, so he knocks him out and takes off. Unfortunately for him, the rocket is only one way.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott

5 page story "On With The Dance!"

Synopsis A dancer who wants a part threatens the girl who got it with a gun to resign. Unfortunately for her, this girl is a witch, and she hexes the dancer to dance in place without ever stopping until she starves to death and even then her corpse dances on and on.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Reprinted in Giant-Size Dracula (Marvel, 1974 series) #2