| Issue | #5 |
| Published | February 1953 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Bill Everett |
| Inks | Bill Everett |
| Synopsis | A cruel asylum keeper is drugged by his assistant as he and the asylum keeper's wife wish to marry. The drug stupefies the man so the judge grants the divorce on grounds of madness and places him into the asylum where the inmates are glad to welcome him after being on the receiving end of so many beatings. |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Russ Heath |
| Inks | Russ Heath |
| Reprinted | in Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007) |
| Synopsis | In a Haitian village, a criminal named Blackie becomes afraid for his life when a man named Larson he framed for a crime has learned how to raise the dead and control the reanimated corpses as zombies. After a close brush with death when fighting off the zombie, Blackie decides to go and learn how to raise a zombie himself. Witnessing a Voodoo ritual he sees a group of natives use a Voodoo doll in order to raise a reanimated corpse. Tricking Larson into meeting him in the grave yard with a letter promising Larson something of value, Blackie tries to raise a zombie to kill Larson. But to Blackie's horror, he has risen the zombie that Larson previously used to hunt him down. Instead of following Blackie's orders, the zombie turns on his would be master, with Larson watching in glee at his enemies fate. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Tony di Preta |
| Inks | Tony di Preta |
| Reprinted | in Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #1 |
| Pencils | Carl Hubbell [as C. H.] |
| Inks | Carl Hubbell [as C. H.] |
| Notes | Pencils and inks credit from Chris Brown (December 21, 2005). |
| Synopsis | A woman buys an antique statue that murders her in her sleep. |
| Pencils | Dick Briefer |
| Inks | Dick Briefer |
| Reprinted | in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #2; in Curse of the Weird (Marvel, 1993 series) #2 (January 1994); in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #98 |