Issue | #8 |
Published | May 1952 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
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Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Carl Burgos (?) |
Inks | Carl Burgos (?) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Menace (Marvel, 1953 series) #10 (March 1954) [as "The Haunted Lake"] |
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 |
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 |