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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published August 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

6 page story "The Monster Maker"

Synopsis A statue maker falls in love with one of his statutes and finds a black magic spell that transmutes him into stone.
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

5 page story "Skin-Deep"

Synopsis A man is attempting to do a face transplant from a corpse but his interfering wife is always getting underfoot by trying to help him in his endeavors. When she burns the skin that he has harvested off the corpse in her attempt at cleaning up around the place, he fixes her wagon by transplanting the corpse's head onto her shoulder.
Script Hank Chapman
Pencils Fred Kida
Inks Fred Kida

3 page story "The Man Who Believed In Ghosts"

Synopsis A man who lives next to a cemetery is not frighted of the ghosts which show up every night until he meets his own.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

5 page story "Skeleton In the Closet"

Synopsis A rich man marries into a family of freaks.
Pencils Manny Stallman
Inks Manny Stallman

2 page story "The Vault of Doom"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #16 (June 1954) [as "The Curse"]

4 page story "The Man Who Melted"

Synopsis A forgetful inventor shoots his wife for testing his serum that will allow him to melt away and commit the perfect crime, but he forgets to devise a way to return himself to normal.
Script Stan Lee