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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published April 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett

5 page story "Death of a Puppet"

Synopsis A puppeteer's menagerie consists of shrunken humans.
Pencils Mort Lawrence
Inks Mort Lawrence

2 page text story "Death Draws a Circle"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 2007 series) #1 (2007)

5 page story "Ghost Guard"

Synopsis A hermit reveals himself to be a ghost guarding pirate treasure.
Pencils Tony di Preta
Inks Tony di Preta
Notes Cover story

4 page story "Paid In Full"

Synopsis A collection agent bullies one of his victims so much that the man murders and robs the collection agent unknowingly in the darkened streets so he has the money to pay off his debt.

4 page story "High As a Kite"

Synopsis The town drunk who wishes to be as high as a kite meets the Devil in a bar, who grants his wish.

5 page story "It's Murder"

Synopsis The police take down the story of a man who claims to know about the details of a murder that took place between two brothers. The sergeant assumes that the story teller is the murderer whose conscience drove him to confess and has him arrested, but it turns out the events have been narrated to the police by the corpse of the murder victim.
Pencils Jack Abel (?)
Inks Jack Abel (?)