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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published May 1954
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 - "Locked In!"

Genre horror
Pencils Harry Anderson
Inks Harry Anderson
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

5 page story "I, The Robot"

Synopsis A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal it after the robot has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.
Genre horror; science fiction
Pencils John Romita (signed)
Inks John Romita (signed)
Notes First apppearance and origin of M-11, the Human Robot of the Agents of Atlas.
Reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 (August 1974); in Agents of Atlas (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

2 page text story "Gambler's Haunt"

Genre horror
Letters typeset
Notes The Statement of Ownership is published on one of these pages.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

4 page story "A Fate Worse Than Death"

Synopsis A space explorer takes a poison capsule after learning a hideous female alien has selected him for her mate upon reaching her maturity day. When she reaches this day, she changes her form to that of an attractive Earth woman just as the regretful man gasps out his last breath.
Genre horror
Pencils Seymour Moskowitz
Inks Seymour Moskowitz
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #29 (July 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

4 page story "Only a Beast"

Synopsis A bed-ridden old man hates those who will inherit his money so he establishes hypnotic control of his dimwitted caretaker and convinces him that he loves the woman and her husband is mean to her, so must kill those who harm the one he loves. He knifes the man, but the woman screams, so he is given the hypnotic command to strangle her. This makes him hate the old man since he has made him kill the one he loves so he tears his throat out like a beast.
Genre horror
Pencils Al Eadeh
Inks Al Eadeh
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #30 (October 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

5 page story "My Other Body"

Synopsis A man's conscience convinces him to steal money from a jewelry store for his girlfriend and then to commit suicide out of remorse for the act.
Genre horror
Pencils Jack Katz
Inks Jack Katz
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #17 (February 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1

5 page story "Locked In!"

Synopsis A woman trails after her husband for twenty years because, after they murdered a family, he skipped out on her with the loot. She kills Bill, but then the spirits appear and keep her prisoner in a filthy hovel, just like all those hermits she interviewed for twenty years while searching for her husband.
Genre horror
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (August 1974); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Menace (Marvel, 2009 series) #1