Issue Details

Issue	#1
Published	September 1957
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?

Cover Details - "Phantom Express"

6 page story "Phantom Express"

Synopsis	"There's no escape from the unscheduled horror that grips the senses as you board the eerie train on a one-way trip to hell! Phew, it's hot. Feels like I'm roasting - I am! Help!"
Genre	occult
Reprinted	from Haunted Thrills (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #11 [original title: "Death at the Throttle"]

6 page story "The Bedeviled Vault!"

Genre

crime

2 page text story "Memo: From a Police File!"

Genre	crime
Letters	typeset

4 page story "Ballast of Gold"

Genre	adventure
Pencils	H. C. Keifer
Inks	H. C. Keifer
Notes	Art identification from Gary Watson, November 2008.

8 page story "When the Sea Goes Dry!"

Genre	adventure
Notes	Per Gene Reed, there appear to be no art changes, just dialogue changes and the change to the title.
Reprinted	from Strange Fantasy (Ajax; Farrell, 1952 series) #2 [modified, original title: "Death Holds an Auction"]; in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v2#3 [in this form]; in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v2#4 [in this form]; in Heap, The (Skywald, 1971 series) #1 [in this form]