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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published September 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre horror

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Notes Ad on inside front cover

5 page story "Don't Shrink Sam's Head"

Synopsis A man wants to go to Jivaro country so he can acquire a shrunken head for his collection of horror memorabilia but is afraid of having his head shrunk, so he hires a scientist to treat his head so that it is unshrinkable. The chief captures him and makes him a deal that if they can't shrink his head, they'll give him one of theirs and let him go. He accepts, and they fail to shrink his head so let him go, but they succeeded in their process with the rest of his body.
Genre horror

2 page text story "Tribal Mask"

Genre horror
Pencils ? (illo)
Inks ? (illo)
Letters typeset
Notes One panel of art

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5 page story "The Perfect Planet"

Genre horror
Pencils Ross Andru (signed)
Inks Ross Andru (signed)

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5 page story "Hugo"

Genre horror
Pencils Pete Tumlinson (signed)
Inks Pete Tumlinson (signed)

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3 page story "Mother Knows Best"

Synopsis A mother tells her daughter that the man in the moon causes the tides but her daughter doesn't believe her. Afterward, the moon gets destroyed by a comet impact and the seas grow calm. Years later, the little girl has grown to have a daughter of her own and she tries to convince her that there used to be a moon which caused the sea to swell. She is shocked when her skeptical daughter says to her "Oh mother, would you have believed a story like that if your mother had told it to you?"
Genre horror
Pencils Sol Brodsky (signed)
Inks Sol Brodsky (signed)
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #10 May 1974

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5 page story "Every Dog Has Its Day!"

Genre horror
Reprinted in Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1973 series) #99

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