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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published March 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Index revised with information from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker and atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "The Dead Men!"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

6 page story "The Dead Men"

Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils John Romita ?; Fred Kida ?
Inks John Romita ?; Fred Kida ?
Notes Romita credit from atlastales; Kida from Saltarella.

4 page story "The Death of a Puppet!"

Synopsis A puppet master is apprehensive when his performances of a puppet murder mystery seem to coincide with real killings.
Pencils Jim Mooney (signed)
Inks Jim Mooney (signed)
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #10; in James Bond (Semic Press AB, 1965 series) #43/[1976]

4 page story "Let's Face It!"

Synopsis When a man develops pills that can take twenty years off one's age, an older actor threatens him with violence unless he hands them over. The man tells the actor not to take any of the pills because he is only "half finished," but the actor doesn't listen, and winds up with a face that is half aged and half young.
Inks Jack Abel ?
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #10

2 page text story "The Devil Dog"

Letters typeset

4 page story "The Pitchman!"

Synopsis A gag story about a conman who actually does sell the Brooklyn bridge.
Script Stan Lee (signed)
Pencils Bob Brown (signed)
Inks Bob Brown (signed)
Reprinted in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #10

5 page story "A Sight for Sore Eyes"

Synopsis A man is taken to an unorthodox surgeon who transplants a second pair of eyes into his forehead in order to correct his vision.
Reprinted in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #6