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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published March 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Kiss of Death!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Carl Burgos ?
Inks Carl Burgos ?

6 page story "Kiss of Death"

Characters John Ashby; Lillian Ashby
Synopsis A woman plans to get rid of her writer husband by taking him to a house supposedly haunted by vampires and shocking his bad heart. She dresses as a vampire, but he recognizes her and thinks it is part of her attempt to add atmosphere for his horror writing, and he isn't scared. A real vampire bites him later in the evening, and when his wife tries again the following night, the man, now a vampire, bites her.
Genre Horror
Pencils Tony DiPreta (signed)
Inks Tony DiPreta (signed)
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1972 series) #12 (August 1974)

4 page story "Mind over Matter"

Synopsis A man receives Yogi training to make objects disappear, and when his friend introduces him to Cartesian skeptical doubt, they both disappear.
Genre Horror
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Jack Abel
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted in Giant-Size Werewolf (Marvel, 1974 series) #2

2 page text story "Daughter of Death"

Genre horror
Letters typeset
Notes The Second page has a statement of ownership and management, which lists Stan Lee as the editor.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #132 (March 1955) [as "The Visitor!"]

1 page advertisement How "Mini-Gym" Turns Plant "Drip" Into Success Dynamo

Pencils C. C. Beck (signed)
Inks C. C. Beck (signed)
Notes Half a page of sequential panel art advertising "Mini-Gym".

3 page story "Flying Saucer"

Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Ross Andru ?
Inks Jack Abel
Notes Credit information from www.atlastales.com.
Reprinted In Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #145

5 page story "Surprise!"

Synopsis An old man in love with a Gypsy girl murders his rival. The girl continues to moon over the dead man so a Gypsy woman offers to make the old man resemble the man he killed. He goes to the gravesite at night with a picture and the sorceress summons the ghost and commands it to exchange faces with the old man. He rushes off to see the girl, but she screams at his approach, as he now has the face of a corpse several months dead.
Genre Horror
Pencils Jack Keller (signed)
Inks Jack Keller (signed)
Reprinted in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #6

5 page story "The Old Man's Secret!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Jay Scott Pike (signed)
Inks Jay Scott Pike (signed)
Reprinted In Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #12