| Issue | #18 |
| Published | October 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Genre | horror |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | A man is pursued through time by tax collectors. |
| Pencils | Pete Tumlinson |
| Inks | Pete Tumlinson |
| Reprinted | in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #3 (January 1975); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | A man conducts rites that reincarnate his shrew wife's spirit into a figurine but the new person, whom he names 'Jolie', is a kind and supportive ideal wife. They are happy together until he leaves on a business trip and realizes they can never be together in public. He meets a woman and romances her so she will be his wife. When he returns home he rushes towards the figurine and regretfully smashes it, knowing if he did not do so, it would be like having two wives. His new wife begins to strangely start acting like the shrew his first wife was and his landlord admits to him that he broke and replaced a figurine while he was inspecting the unit. The man realizes that the landlord killed Jolie and the spirit passed into the woman he met on the business trip. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Bill Walton |
| Inks | Bill Walton |
| Reprinted | in Tales of the Zombie (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 [retitled "I Wouldn't Stay Dead"]; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Pencils | Mort Lawrence |
| Inks | Mort Lawrence |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |
| Synopsis | Two brothers are incensed that their neighbors have put down a well that has dried up the well on their property so they lay pipe to divert the water back down to the well on their property. The channel works and they drink their fill of the water, until a water delivery man mentions that he was bringing up some water to the neighbors because some pesticides accidentally got dumped into their well, poisoning the water. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Reprinted | in DEAD OF NIGHT (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 August 1974; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009) |