| Issue | #4 |
| Published | December 1952 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Bill Everett |
| Inks | Bill Everett |
| Synopsis | A crook steals a bike from a time-traveler that has come from the year 1992, forty years in the future. He robs a bank and pedals into the future but is recognized anyway and shot as he attempts to flee. His body is deposited in 1952 minus the bike and the police wonder which one of them got him because the wound on the dead man's forehead does not appear to have been made by a .38. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Tony DiPreta |
| Inks | Tony DiPreta |
| Reprinted | in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973) |
| Synopsis | An elderly couple that run an inn in Europe murder their guests in order to rob them and send the money to their son in America. They do not recognize their final victim as their son and he does not tell them because he wanted to surprise them with his visit. |
| Reprinted | in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #8 (December 1973) |
| Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
| Inks | Ed Winiarski |
| Characters | Anthony Jones; Johnny |
| Synopsis | A man runs into the descendant of gorillas that immigrated from the jungle to America. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Narrated in the first person. |
| Reprinted | in Mystic (Marvel, 1951 series) #36 (March 1955) [as "How Many Others"]; in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #10 (July 1960); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) |
| Characters | Pete Norris; Joe |
| Synopsis | Pete Norris is a con who is about to get the chair for the murders he committed. When he hears that the prison may flood he decides to try to escape. He makes it into a room where he is trapped with water leaking in. He decides it is better to try to stop the leak but when he sticks his finger in the hole he is electrocuted because the hole was an electric socket. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | George Roussos |
| Inks | George Roussos |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credit from the Atlas Tales website. |
| Reprinted | in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #25 (September 1973) |