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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published March 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "From Under The Earth!"

Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Sol Brodsky
Letters typeset
Notes Art credits from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "The Castle of Shadows!"

Synopsis When a man returns to the family castle, he finds that stories among the locals of him inheriting the curse of lycanthropy are true.
Pencils Doug Wildey
Inks Doug Wildey
Notes Job number, page count, and art credits from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

1 page text story "The Headhunters"

Letters typeset
Notes This sequence added per Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.
Reprinted from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #7 (June 1952) [originally titled "The Strange Hat"]

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Script Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Letters typeset
Notes For 1 October 1953. Stan Lee, Editor; Martin Goodman, Managing Editor; Monroe Froehlich, Jr., Business Manager. This sequence added per Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "When Death Comes A-Calling"

Synopsis When a truck strikes a small boy and kills him, Death grants him a reprieve.
Notes Job number and page count from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

5 page story "The World Within"

Synopsis A man whose face is scarred by Nazi torturers escapes to an underground world where he is accepted by the blind people who live there.
Pencils Robert Q. Sale
Inks Robert Q. Sale
Notes Job number, page count, and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "One Extra Head"

Synopsis When a carnival owner finds a woman with two heads to join the man with two heads on stage, the two-headed man finds his response to her is disgust, just the same as everyone else. He commits suicide with a pistol.
Pencils Dan Loprino
Inks Dan Loprino
Notes Job number, page count, and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.

4 page story "From Under the Earth!"

Synopsis A man digging in a mine encounters mole men. He convinces them to help him break into Fort Knox. When they succeed, they tell him that gold is worthless to them, so they wall the man up in the vault where he starves.
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter
Notes Features "mole-men" from the core of the Earth; cf. V-372 in Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961). Job number, page count, and art credit from Tom Lammers via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) April 2010.