Issue | #14 |
Published | April 1953 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Genre | Horror |
Pencils | Bill Everett (signed) |
Inks | Bill Everett (signed) |
Synopsis | The wife of an African guide plots with a doctor to murder her husband. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Reprinted | in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #12 (January 1975) |
Characters | John Potts; McPherson; Capt. Breslow |
Synopsis | A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door. |
Genre | occult |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #74 (April 1960) |
Characters | An unnamed research scientist; Martha (his wife); Donald (his son); an unnamed police officer. |
Synopsis | A scientist discovers a cure for baldness which he claims will "grow hair on a billiard ball". When the men who try the formula remain bald, the scientist loses everything and ends up sleeping rough in a park. Telling his story to a policeman, the scientist claims that the cure DOES work, but not on men. To prove it, he produces a handful of billiard balls - all covered in hair! |
Genre | Fantasy |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Ed Winiarski |
Inks | Ed Winiarski |
Notes | Ed Winiarski credited as "Ed Win". |
Characters | Wilbur Bixby (a henpecked husband); his wife Griselda. |
Synopsis | A man becomes free of his shrew wife when they travel to Greece and he drinks from a fountain that transforms him into a centaur so he can eat grass and no longer has to depend upon her favor to buy him meals. |
Genre | occult |
Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #34 (March 1975) |
Characters | Rock Zucco; Gertie Zucco; Crawford; Sam; other members of the crew on the ship Zucco serves on |
Synopsis | A succubus uses a mirror to blind a sea captain on leave as he attempts to push his homely wife out the top story window so that he tumbles out instead and winds up in Hell stoking the flames the way he used to torture his men. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Russ Heath |
Inks | Russ Heath |
Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #13 (September 1974) |
Characters | Crawfish Cobbs; his wife Matilda. |
Synopsis | A shrew wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Fred Kida |
Inks | Fred Kida |
Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #12 (August 1974) |