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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published November 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Little Things!"

Genre horror
Notes Cover art credits from Phil Kaltenback via the GCD Error List (15 March 2006). The original indexer credited Russ Heath with both pencils and inks.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

5 page story "Behind the Locked Door"

Synopsis When a man with a robotics researcher as a girlfriend gets a robot from her, the creature builds itself a girlfriend robot. When the human woman sees the girl robot, she flies into a jealous rage and shoots her beau before he can explain that the girl is just a robot.
Pencils Pete Tumlimson
Inks Pete Tumlimson
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

2 page text story "The Ray Machine"

Letters typeset
Reprinted from Adventures Into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series) #16 (February 1953) [originally titled "The Tragic Train"]

5 page story "The Un-Human"

Synopsis When an alien spy assumes the shape and mind of a servant of the top scientist in the country in order to learn of Earth's defenses, he absorbs some of the goodness of the man's soul, and thus does not reveal to his evil alien masters that they will be destroyed when they attack Earth.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

4 page story "The Little Things"

Synopsis A man finds that the oriental figures his wife buys somehow turn into the real thing when they are broken. He wants to be rid of her, so he buys a rattlesnake figurine. When he returns to the house from watching a movie, he breaks the sack containing the figurine against the wall, as she tells him from the kitchen that she exchanged it for a figurine of an atomic bomb.
Pencils Howard Post
Inks Howard Post
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

4 page story "It Waits In the Tank"

Synopsis When a man acquires a strange sea creature it slowly transfers into his body and switches minds, leaving him inside the tank starring out at the alien being which has seized his form.
Pencils Vince Colletta
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)

5 page story "The Witch Burning"

Synopsis A witch dies of heart failure before being burned and possesses the nearest living body, that of a witch hunter. The witch thinks this will be the perfect cover for her to practice her witchcraft, but she reckons without the man's son, who senses the evil presence and burns the cabin down.
Pencils Howard Nostrand; ?
Inks Howard Nostrand; ?
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2008 series) #2 (2009)