| Issue | #54 |
| Published | April 1957 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Synopsis | An ancient tomb is guarded by hypnotists. |
| Pencils | Dave Berg |
| Inks | Dave Berg |
| Synopsis | An engineer builds a castle as a monument to man's greed that will collapse unless a beam of light shines directly upon a diamond that thieves attempt to steal in succession. Each thief must sit in place holding the diamond in the light until the next greedy man comes along otherwise the castle will collapse upon their heads. |
| Pencils | Frank Bolle |
| Inks | Frank Bolle |
| Synopsis | A petty thief comes across a city where every person is considerate and helpful. The man who takes him in tells him not to touch a certain box as it took him fifty years to gather its contents. The thief thinks that it must be very valuable and so opens the box that belongs to Pandora. |
| Pencils | John Forte |
| Inks | John Forte |
| Reprinted | in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #17 (July 1975) |
| Synopsis | A scientist recreates the serum that gave Midas his golden touch and feeds it to his dog. Anything the dog touches turns to gold and he donates the gold to help people. Another man with greedy intent breaks in and unlocks the dog's cage. While the two men are locked in a struggle, the dog touches them and they are transmuted into gold. The statue is displayed as a moral lesson for people of the struggle between selflessness and greed. |
| Pencils | Bernie Krigstein |
| Inks | Bernie Krigstein |
| Reprinted | in Vault of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #20 |
| Synopsis | A scientist puts off marrying until he is wealthy because he wants to avoid the mistake of his parents always arguing since they were poor. He becomes wealthy by inventing a matter duplicator device. When the girl he wishes to marry steps in front of the device, there are now two of them, arguing over which one of them gets to marry him. |
| Pencils | John Tartaglione |
| Inks | John Tartaglione |
| Reprinted | in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #36 |
| Characters | Mrs. Gerrity; Tom Gerrity; Officer O'Malley; Logarithm |
| Synopsis | An old-fashioned shopkeeper unwittingly saves the life of a boy from Mechanica when her remedy oil lubricates the gears in his brain. |
| Pencils | Marie Severin |
| Inks | Marie Severin |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustrations. All subsequent reprints of this story used this title instead of the original. Artist credit from www.atlastales.com. |
| Reprinted | from Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #37 (August 1956) [originally titled "The Old Shop"]; in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #50 (January 1959); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #14 (December 1960); in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #74 (November 1961); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #30 (April 1962); in Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #39 (January 1963) ; in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952) #92 (May 1963); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2 (2008); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #3 (2010) |
| Synopsis | A man ventures out to a mist-hidden island that has curative properties in order to marry a couple there. |
| Reprinted | in Tomb of Darkness (Marvel, 1974 series) #15 |