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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published January 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Witches' Cauldron"

Genre Horror
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan ?

5 page story "The Man Who Ran Away"

Synopsis A scientist who resents his fellows as inferior builds a time machine to travel to the year 4024, where he is eliminated as a misfit because he can answer none of their I.Q. questions.
Genre Horror
Pencils Al Luster
Inks Al Luster
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (July 1973)

2 page text story "Lost World"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Journey Into Unknown Worlds (Marvel, 1951 series) #7 (October 1951) [originally titled "In the Valley of the Mist"]

4 page story "The Screaming Man"

Synopsis Two writers rent a spooky house. One ends up a skeleton and the other goes mad.
Genre Horror
Pencils Bill Benulis ?
Inks Jack Abel ?
Reprinted in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (July 1973)

5 page story "The Big Story"

Genre Horror
Notes A similar plot to "Death Waits Within" in Journey Into Mystery #4
Reprinted in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (July 1973)

5 page story "Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble!"

Synopsis A comic adaption of MacBeth with the additional detail that MacDuff is the son of one of the witches.
Genre Horror
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter
Reprinted in Dracula Lives (Marvel, 1973 series) #3 (October 1973)

4 page story "Pep Talk"

Genre Horror
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman