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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published August 1952
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Some information for this index from atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "The Ghost of Grimm Towers"

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

6 page story "The Ghost of Grimm Towers!"

Synopsis A man puts a sheet over his head to frighten his uncle out of the window to his death, but his ghost returns and strangles him.
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta

5 page story "No Escape!"

Synopsis A sheriff handcuffs an escaped killer to him during a scuffle with his gun so that even though the killer shoots the sheriff, he won't be able to escape the desert before he dehydrates dragging the sheriff's body.
Script Hank Chapman
Pencils Dan Loprino
Inks Dan Loprino

5 page story "The Horrible Hog"

Synopsis When a man forecloses on a farm he keeps the previous owners on as slave labor. He works the man's wife till she drops dead, so in revenge, he strangles the new owner and bakes him in the stove with an apple in his mouth like a pig.
Pencils Carl Hubbel
Inks Carl Hubbel

5 page story "The Graveyard Ghoul!"

Synopsis When a police officer shoots a ghoul that has been vandalizing the local graves, he is astonished to learn that the man was his father.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

1 page Suspense Sanctuary letters page

Script Stan Lee (replies)
Letters typeset

5 page story "The Secret"

Synopsis A Bluebeard story.

6 page story "Terror at Midnight"

Synopsis A man thinks that his wife is a werewolf, but it's really his caretaker's daughter.
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks Manny Stallman

6 page story "Up from the Grave!"

Synopsis A young man finds that whatever shape he molds from the clay of a witch's grave has power over that object, so he molds the clay into a figure of the Eiffel tower and destroys it as a test. When he hears on the radio that World War III has begun, he becomes disgusted with humanity and molds the clay into a sphere resembling Earth and hurls it against the wall.
Pencils Edwin Goldfarb
Inks Bob Baer