| Issue | #12 |
| Published | February 1953 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Index revised with data from atlastales.com. |
| Pencils | Russ Heath |
| Inks | Russ Heath |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Russ Heath |
| Inks | Russ Heath |
| Notes | The same story as the Ditko story in Tales of Suspense #30 |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 |
| Letters | typeset |
| Synopsis | An actor kills the man who directs the spotlight on stage when he finds out his girlfriend is seeing him. He gets condemned to the chair and escapes, but the spotlight pins him to the wall and the cops open fire. Only after his lifeless body slumps to the ground do the cops realize that there is no one at the spotlight. |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 |
| Synopsis | A man uses a chlorophyll spray as a health tonic until he develops plant-like qualities. |
| Pencils | Sam Kweskin |
| Inks | Sam Kweskin |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 |
| Pencils | Louis Zansky |
| Synopsis | A doctor and his friend cook up a plot to acquire the family fortune by the doctor declaring the man dead and then he pretends to return as a ghost and scare the remaining members to death. But the doctor wants all the money and betrays the man by injecting poison into him rather than a drug to make him appear dead, and so he realizes at the end of the story that he actually is a ghost. He kills the doctor. |
| Pencils | Tony DiPreta |
| Inks | Tony DiPreta |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 |