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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March 1952
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Data for this index from Ger Apeldoorn via the Timely-Atlas Group (timely-atlas@yahoogroups.com) 6 March 2008.

Cover Details - "The Stroke of Midnight!"

Genre horror
Letters typeset

5 page story "The Dark Tunnel"

Synopsis An exterminator enters into a dark tunnel on one of his jobs and is taken captive by giant telepathic cockroaches who are waiting for mankind to destroy itself before they emerge and rule Earth.
Pencils Gene Colan
Inks Gene Colan

2 page text story "The Doll of Doom"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #10 (July 1953) [as "Witch-Girl"]

5 page story "The Little Black Box!"

Synopsis A man finds a black box which grants him wishes when he tells a lie. When he gets the black box open, the spirit inside incinerates him to take his place.
Script Hank Chapman
Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

3 page story "The End of the World"

Synopsis A carnival swami predicts the world will end at midnight. His skeptic client scoffs at the prediction, but the man's words haunt his thoughts for the rest of the evening. When the clock begins to strike twelve, he is distracted by it, and doesn't see the vehicle that strikes and kills him.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

6 page story "The Horror on Channel 15"

Synopsis A man in a small Iowa town creates a monster for a TV show that comes to life and kills everyone in the town.
Script Stan Lee ?
Pencils Pete Tumlinson
Inks Pete Tumlinson

4 page story "The Stroke of 12"

Synopsis An embalming assistant murders an undertaker for his money, but when he goes to the cemetery at midnight where he hid the money, the undertaker drags him into the grave with him.
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman