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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published May 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
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Cover Details - "A Monster Among Us!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Carl Burgos (?)
Inks Carl Burgos (?)

6 page story "We Meet at Midnight!"

Synopsis A man communicates with the spirit of the Sphinx in order to learn the Egyptian's greatest secret. It turns out the Sphinx considers the Egyptian's greatest secret the process of mummification...which it proceeds to demonstrate.
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Paul Reinman (signed)
Inks Paul Reinman (signed)
Reprinted in Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #4

4 page story "Sorry... Mr. Hopkins!"

Synopsis A man bumps into the tent pole and drops his glasses, so the Gypsy fortune teller hands him a pair that makes her appear beautiful and convinces him to murder his wife and steal from his boss for her. When he returns to her with the money he bumps into the pole in the darkened tent again and she hands him the repaired glasses he originally dropped. She is then revealed as an old hag.
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

4 page story "House for Sale"

Characters Richard Burns; Charlie; Paul Harris; Miss Dee; Ben White; Jeb Treble; Tom Keystone; John Keystone
Synopsis In an attempt to save his job at a real estate agency, Paul Harris tries one last time to sell the haunted Keystone mansion.
Genre Horror
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #11

2 page text story "The Tansfin Horror"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #10 (March 1954) [as "The Haunted Lake"]

4 page story "The Burning Flame"

Synopsis A bum breaks into a funeral parlor to steal a solid silver candlestick.
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane
Reprinted in Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #11

5 page story "A Monster Among Us"

Synopsis A man encounters a lighthouse keeper who is a monster in disguise.
Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Reprinted in Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 1971 series) #29