Issue | #3 |
Published | May 1953 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Additional content information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V], 5/28/2006. |
Genre | horror |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Notes | Additional content information from Dr. Michael J. Vassallo [as Doc. V], 5/28/2006. |
Characters | Jim Horton; Marion Horton; Gonzales; Luigi; Reilly; Hooded Bigots [Rocky; Pete] |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | John Romita, Sr. |
Inks | John Romita, Sr. |
Notes | Narrated in the second person. The writer and artist of this story about anti-immigrant prejudice were the children of Jewish and Italian immigrants, respectively. This story is retold in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #71 (October 1959) as "I Am the Man Without a Face!" drawn by Joe Sinnott, and in Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series) #25 (January 1962) as "The Hidden Face" drawn by Steve Ditko. |
Reprinted | in Uncanny Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #4 (June 1974) |
Pencils | Marty Elkin (illustration) |
Inks | Marty Elkin (illustration) |
Letters | typeset |
Reprinted | from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #9 (August 1952) [illustration, from "The Strange Game"] |
Synopsis | A man goes into the forest in order to find proof of werewolves and is attacked. He shoots the beast and returns home to his shrew wife, but he has been bitten, so she screams as he begins to transform. She shoots him in the back with a shotgun but he tears out her throat before he dies. |
Genre | horror |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Bill Everett |
Inks | Bill Everett |
Reprinted | in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #11 July 1974 |
Synopsis | A rodeo clown tries to get rid of his rival by pretending to trip and failing to distract the bull when the rival is thrown off the bull during the riding event. What the clown fails to realize is that the bull resents him more than the rider for all the times in the past he has distracted it by leaping into a protective barrel where the bull's horns can't get him. The bull sees its opportunity and gores the clown. |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Russ Heath (signed) |
Inks | Russ Heath (signed) |
Reprinted | in Chamber of Chills (Marvel, 1972 series) #15 (March 1975) |
Synopsis | A gangster drinks a serum that will allow him to live forever and goes to hide out in the bayou where he falls into a pit of quicksand. |
Script | Stan Lee |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Reprinted | in Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #8; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #131 |