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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published June 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Additional information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V], 5/28/2006.

Cover Details - "The Four-Armed Man!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

6 page story "A Vampire Is Born"

Synopsis This story reveals that Stalin was a vampire.
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Fred Kida

5 page story "Escape to the Moon!"

Synopsis A spy fails in his effort to steal an element required in the construction of a Hydrogen bomb so he knows he faces death if caught by the police or the Communists. He reads of a rocket to the moon and thinks if he can get aboard that he will be safe, but he doesn't realize the test rocket is not large enough to hold a human passenger.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

2 page text story "The Scheming Woman"

Genre horror
Pencils Joe Maneely?
Inks Joe Maneely?
Letters typeset
Notes story has 1 spot illustration

5 page story "Genius!"

Synopsis A super intellect grows tired among life on Earth as mere humans are like children to him when he receives a telepathic message from what appears to be a beautiful woman on Saturn imploring him to build a rocket to journey to her. He does so, but when he arrives she removes her mask to kiss him, revealing herself to be a hideous hag.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #35; in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #3

7 page story "The Madman"

Characters Jane Bryant
Genre horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Notes A similar plot to "The Four-Armed Men" from Tales to Astonish #26
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (September 1974)