Spellbound (1952 Atlas) comic books 1953

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Cover by Sol Brodsky. Stories by Hank Chapman and unknown. Art by Tony DiPreta, Bernie Krigstein, Mike Sekowsky, Manny Stallman, Al Eadeh and unknown. "The Dirty Dog" by Hank Chapman and Tony DiPreta - A down and out ventriloquist picks up a stray dog to con a millionaire out of five hundred dollars by convincing the man that the dog can talk. After completing the sale, the dog says to the ventriloquist, "You're a sucker, Charlie. You could've got fifty thousand dollars for a dog like me." Also in this issue: "The Man Who Couldn't Be Killed!" with art by Bernie Krigstein - A gangster sells his Lady Luck to another thug who rubs him out; 2-page text story "The Wise Witch" with illo by Al Eadeh (note: illo taken from "The Walking Dead!" from Astonishing (1951 Marvel/Atlas) #10); "The Things in the Dark" with pencils by Mike Sekowsky; and "Close Your Eyes" with art by Manny Stallman - A brother murders his brother for money. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Sol Brodsky and Christopher Rule. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Tony DiPreta, Dick Ayers, Ben Brown, Bill Everett, Joe Maneely, Ernie Bache and David Gantz. In this issue: "The Last Body" with art by Tony DiPreta - When the reanimator demands that his assistant bring him a fresh body, the assistant unknowingly victimizes the reanimator; "The Vampire's Bride" by Stan Lee, Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache - When an actress claims that she would marry a vampire if it would make her famous, a vampire kidnaps her to make her his bride; "The Dope Eloped!" with art by Ben Brown and David Gantz - A man elopes with the body of his beloved; "Don't Close the Door!" with art by Bill Everett - A thief finds that the key he has killed an old man for merely opens door after door in a never ending succession of rooms; "The Crank!" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely - A man threatens the elevator repairman with violence unless the elevator car arrives at his floor within five minutes so the repairman leaves the floor off the car; and 2-page text story "Dragon of Death!!", reprinted from Combat (1952 Atlas) #3 (original title: "Korean Cowboy"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Russ Heath, Howie Post, Dick Ayers, Joe Sinnott, Ernie Bache and unknown. Another two taps and he'll be free! He told those cops no one would ever give him the hot seat! But what lies in wait at the end of ..."The Last Mile"? Also in this issue: 2-page text story "Snake of Snigasi"; "Z-Z-Z-P!" with art by Russ Heath; "The Man Who Hated Children" by Stan Lee and Howie Post; "Shock Treatment!" with art by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache; and "The Operation" with art by Joe Sinnott. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Russ Heath, Ed Goldfarb, Bob Baer and unknown. In this issue: "The Vampire and the Lady!" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - The vampire leaves his coffin and changes into a bat who must find blood before the morning or perish; 2-page text story "The Martians' Mistake"; "The Morgue!" - Impoverished Henry Thompson finally fulfills a promise to his wife when they were married fifty years ago -- to get their own telephone installed and get their names in the phone book; "The Death of Agatha Slurl!" with art by Ed Goldfarb and Bob Baer - Agatha Slurl pays a big price for the never-ending abuse she heaps on poor, young Joe; "The Millionaire!" - Extreme miser Spencer van Lucre hires engineer Cogwheel Collins to design the world's most impenetrable vault for him to store his valuables in; and "At Your Service!" - The maniacally demanding Mrs. Cotsworth demands absolute obedience and perfection from her servant...her new housekeeper accomplishes every one of Mrs. Cotsworth's impossible orders perfectly, but one last wish proves to be her undoing. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Bill Everett, Manny Stallman, Tony DiPreta, Bill Benulis, Jack Abel and unknown. "How Many Times Can You Die???" with art by Bill Everett - A man is double-crossed by his partner-in-fraud who leaves the police a note framing him for murder by the riverside. Their deal was to fake a suicide, but the partner decided to take all the money and frame the fall guy. The man gets out of the stir and guns down his old partner figuring they can't put him on trial for killing the same man twice, but since the man was living under a new identity, they try him for killing a separate person and send him to the gas chamber. Also in this issue: "The Living Mummy" with art by Manny Stallman - When a man brings a mummy back to life, the mummy kills him in order to wrap up the body and substitute it back in the museum exhibit; 2-page text story "Dreams of Death"; "When Grugg Goes to Sleep!" by Stan Lee and Tony DiPreta - This story asserts that you are an alien who has to look into a mirror when you read this story; "Where There's Smoke" - A miser hides his money in the stove and his wife burns it; and "Don't Turn Your Back" with art by Bill Benulis and Jack Abel - A collector of trophies turns the tables on a vampire who was stalking him. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover inks by Christopher Rule. Stories by Carl Wessler, Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Ed Goldfarb, Tony DiPreta, Art Peddy, Sid Greene and Bill Benulis. The coffin...is empty! But not for long in "The Empty Coffin" by Carl Wessler and Ed Goldfarb. Also in this issue: "Never Trust a Woman" by Stan Lee and Tony DiPreta; "The Madman" by Stan Lee and Art Peddy; "Watch the Birdie" with art by Sid Greene; 2-page text story "Voodoo Vengeance"; and "The Hypnotist" by Stan Lee and Bill Benulis. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Paul Reinman, Tony DiPreta, Russ Heath, Sam Kweskin, Louis Zansky and unknown. "On the Spot" with art by Paul Reinman - An actor kills the man who directs the spotlight on stage when he finds out his girlfriend is seeing him. He gets condemned to the chair and escapes, but the spotlight pins him to the wall and the cops open fire. Only after his lifeless body slumps to the ground do the cops realize that there is no one at the spotlight. Plus: "My Friend the Ghost" with art by Tony DiPreta - A doctor and his friend cook up a plot to acquire the family fortune by the doctor declaring the man dead and then he pretends to return as a ghost and scare the remaining members to death. But the doctor wants all the money and betrays the man by injecting poison into him rather than a drug to make him appear dead, and so he realizes at the end of the story that he actually is a ghost. He kills the doctor. Also in this issue: "What Happened to Mister Snively?" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - During an atomic war, grocer Snively hoards food in his bomb shelter...however, he starves to death after the bombs fall because he forgot to bring a can opener; 2-page text story "M'Batu -- Giant Jelly Fish"; "The Diet of Donald Moore" with art by Sam Kweskin - A man uses a chlorophyll spray as a health tonic until he develops plant-like qualities; and "The Gas Man" with pencils by Louis Zansky. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover by Carl Burgos. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Jim Mooney, Bob Brown, Pete Tumlinson and unknown. "Let's Face It!" - When a man develops pills that can take twenty years off one's age, an older actor threatens him with violence unless he hands them over. The man tells the actor not to take any of the pills because he is only "half finished," but the actor doesn't listen, and winds up with a face that is half aged and half young. Also in this issue: "The Dead Men" with story by Stan Lee; "The Death of a Puppet!" with art by Jim Mooney - A puppet master is apprehensive when his performances of a puppet murder mystery seem to coincide with real killings; 2-page text story "The Devil Dog" - An American man returns to his hometown to settle old scores, accompanied by his pet dog, whose body is host to the spirit of a Ugandan witchdoctor; "The Pitchman!" by Stan Lee and Bob Brown - A gag story about a conman who actually does sell the Brooklyn Bridge; and "A Sight for Sore Eyes" with art by Pete Tumlinson - A man is taken to an unorthodox surgeon who transplants a second pair of eyes into his forehead in order to correct his vision. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Bill Everett. Stories by Stan Lee and unknown. Art by Ed Winiarski, Fred Kida, Joe Maneely, Russ Heath and unknown. "The Saddest Story Ever Told!" by Stan Lee and Ed Winiarski - A scientist discovers a cure for baldness which he claims will "grow hair on a billiard ball". When the men who try the formula remain bald, the scientist loses everything and ends up sleeping rough in a park. Telling his story to a policeman, the scientist claims that the cure DOES work, but not on men. To prove it, he produces a handful of billiard balls -- all covered in hair! Plus: "Close Shave!" with art by Fred Kida - A shrew wife finds an electric razor annoying so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor. Also in this issue: "Love Story" by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely - The wife of an African guide plots with a doctor to murder her husband; 2-page text story "The Whirlpool of Gairloch" - A jewel thief ignores local superstitions to cross a haunted strait but finds that his disastrous voyage was only a dream when he wakes up with police at the door; "The Revolt of Wilbur Bixby!" - A man becomes free of his shrew wife when they travel to Greece and he drinks from a fountain that transforms him into a centaur so he can eat grass and no longer has to depend upon her favor to buy him meals; and "The Heat's On!" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - A succubus uses a mirror to blind a sea captain on leave as he attempts to push his homely wife out the top story window so that he tumbles out instead and winds up in Hell stoking the flames the way he used to torture his men. 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Carl Burgos. Lover Beware, art by Joe Sinnott. The Idiot text story. Give Him Enough Rope, art by Tony DiPreta. Get Out of My Graveyard! The Miracle!, art by Chuck Winter. The Living Dead, script by Stan Lee, art by Carmine Infantino. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Russ Heath. Stories by Carl Wessler, Stan Lee and unknown. Art by John Forte, Vic Carrabotta, Bill Everett, Russ Heath, Joe Sinnott, Matt Fox, Jack Abel and Joe Maneely. "Only a Rose!" by Carl Wessler, John Forte and Matt Fox - A woman suspects her husband of cheating on her and so she follows him during the evenings where he is seen giving flowers to young girls. She becomes enraged and sends poisoned candy to her victims. After several deaths reported in the newspaper, her husband reveals that he was delivering flowers to make extra money to buy her a gift. His wife is stricken by remorse for the poisonings, and eats a few of the chocolates the husband has left on the table, which turned out to be poisoned. Plus: "Too Human to Live!" with art by Vic Carrabotta and Jack Abel - A human-looking robot employed to work in a factory of mechanical robots resents the conditions of his employment as he doesn't know he's a robot. When he meets a pretty young lady and makes a date with her, he tries to escape the factory, but the other robots take him back to his workstation. He makes a dash for the fire escape but the other robots pursue him and he falls from an open window to smash to pieces on the ground below. The robot supervisor says that it is unfortunate when robots come to think of themselves as different from other robots merely because they look different. Also in this issue: "When You Believe" with art by Bill Everett - An escaped con goes after his defense lawyer on Christmas day with the intent to murder him and his wife and child...the boy got a disintegrator gun as his present and he aims it at the convict which provokes fits of laughter...the boy pulls the trigger and disintegrates him; "A Very Grave Matter" by Stan Lee and Russ Heath - Two brothers get hired as watchmen for a cemetery...one falls in a grave and calls for help...a bystander tries to dig him out and the other brother thinks he's grave robbing and shoots him...a month later, the buried brother returns as a zombie and strangles his brother; "Behind the Door" with art by Joe Sinnott - A wealthy old man builds a viewing device so powerful that it even displays Death approaching him...he hires bodyguards and builds a vault to hold Death once the beam reveals its presence; and 2-page text story "Werewolf Village" with illo by Joe Maneely, reprinted from Strange Tales (1951-1976 1st Series) #5 (original title: "Welcome to the Werewolves"). 32 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.