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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published February 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Some information for this index from atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "If"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos

6 page story "If!"

Pencils Fred Kida
Inks Fred Kida
Notes a story similar to EC's "Out Cold"

4 page story "Storm Warming!"

Synopsis A weather forecaster builds a machine to control the weather so that, when he predicts the weather for his boss, he's always right. He becomes frustrated when his boss refuses to give him a raise and builds an ark.
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

5 page story "Terror in the Tropics"

Synopsis A woman plots to kill her husband and return to civilization, but is struck down by a fly-borne disease.

1 page Suspense Sanctuary letters page

Letters typeset

4 page story "The Man Who Killed Himself!"

Synopsis An artist saves another artist from throwing himself out a high rise window and gives him money to finish his masterpiece. When the beneficiary of the kindness attempts to repay the artist who gave him the money to finish his painting, he takes one look at the painting and throws himself out the window. Saddened, the man reflects he was spared a similar fate months ago as he unwraps the deceased artist's painting and sees it is identical to his own.

5 page story "Hall of Mirrors"

Synopsis A man creates a funhouse mirror for an obnoxious carnival owner that causes the viewer's body to take on the shape of the monstrous reflection.
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer