Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1952-09-26
Editing: Stan Lee (editor)

The Hands!/Hex!/They're Driving Me Crazy!/The Little People!

cover / 1 page


  • Genre:horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 5, registration number B385241.

The Little People

comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-555
Characters:
carnival barker; Silas Lewis; Laura Lewis; Lon Lewis; Tim Lewis
Synopsis:
A dwarf surgeon's family is held at the mercy of a cruel carnival barker when the surgeon is arrested for practicing without a license and the barker offers the judge to provide them with work at the circus, sparing them jail. When the barker loses his temper and kills one of the children, the surgeon cuts off his head and exchanges it with that of a dog, exhibiting him as a freak.
Reprints (2)

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-511
Characters:
Gary Birch
Synopsis:
A man with a pair of claws for hands pays for an operation to give him normal hands and on his twenty-fifth birthday, turns into a lobster with a pair of human hands.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Cover story

The Three Doors

text story / 2 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:9347
Characters:
Randy Scott (psychologist); Miriam Scott (wife); strange little man (the Devil); Parkington (attorney)
Synopsis:
A man makes a deal with the Devil and then tries to outwit him, unsuccessfully.
Reprints (1)

How Mini-Gym Turns Plant Drip into Success Dynamo

Bonomo Mini-Gym / Black Beauty / comics-form advertising / 1 page

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-480?
Characters:
Silas Blackwell; John-Johns (foreman); physician
Synopsis:
A native foreman poisons his cruel boss for his beatings of the laborers but the boss promises to turn over a new leaf if he is given the antidote. The boss is led to a group of trees and he carves an 'X' into one of the healing trees. When he recovers, he goes back to being sadistic, so the foreman poisons him again. The boss just laughs and kills the foreman, but when he returns to the trees, he finds the foreman has had his revenge from beyond the grave for they are all marked with an 'X'.
Reprints (2)

They're Driving Me Crazy!

comic story / 7 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:B-545
Characters:
Dr. Henry Johnson; Dr. Milldale; Paul Erskine (assistant): Millie Johnson (wife); green-skinned man
Synopsis:
This story postulates that the people of Earth are in reality the slaves of beings from another dimension who control all thought that people are allowed to have. When an occasion savant arises that produces knowledge the masters don't want people to have, that individual is made nonexistent.
Reprints (1)

The Secret of Treasure Cave

Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve / comics-form advertising / 1 page

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