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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published December 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

6 page story "The Bewitched Bike"

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)

4 page story "Death Waits Within"

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)

4 page story "Locked Door"

Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

2 page text story "Out of the Jungle"

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)

4 page story "I'm Drowning!"

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)

5 page story "Hiding Place"