Issue | #19 |
Published | June 1953 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Stan Lee |
Notes | Credits for this issue supplied by www.atlastales.com. |
Pencils | Joe Maneely |
Inks | Joe Maneely |
Editing | Stan Lee ? |
Synopsis | A knife grinder who only works for hated nobles uses blood on the grindstone to curse the blades so that they will kill with a mind of their own. When he is arrested on suspicion because he is in the area of the stabbing, the jail cook uses the grindstone to sharpen the knife that the grinder will use for his jail meal, and the grinder stabs himself to death with it. |
Pencils | Gene Colan |
Inks | Gene Colan |
Letters | typeset |
Synopsis | A man spends twenty years looking for a book that will make the Devil his slave, but he doesn't know that Satan has joined his expedition to make sure he acquires the book first. |
Pencils | Larry Woromay |
Inks | Matt Fox |
Synopsis | Two circus performers despise each other so one makes it so the highwire snaps and the other drains the water out of the barrel underneath the plunge. |
Pencils | Al Luster |
Inks | Al Luster |
Pencils | Robert McCarty |
Inks | Robert McCarty |
Notes | The same plot as the first story in Amazing Adult Fantasy #11 except for alien mistakes a convict breaking jail as the dominant form of life and is shot by the guards. |
Pencils | Sam Kweskin |
Inks | Sam Kweskin |
Notes | The same plot as the last story in Amazing Adult Fantasy #11 except instead of the civil war setting, the story depicts a Russian anarchist who leaves his family's house with the wrong briefcase and the time bomb he was working on blows up his family. |