Volume: 1
Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1953-12-22
Editing: Stan Lee (credited) (editor); Martin Goodman (credited) (managing editor)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1954 Periodicals, page 3.

The Vampire-Man

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:D-777
Characters:
Tom Malverne [Jack the Ripper]; vampires
Synopsis:
This story postulates the Jack the Ripper killings were done by a hateful hunchback who wanted to become a vampire so he could kill mortals, but was repulsed by the sight of blood, so vampires killed him when he could not fulfill their condition that he partake of human blood before new year's eve.
Reprints (4)

Indexer Notes

Possible Woromay art per Michael J. Vassallo.

The Black Box

text story / 1.67 pages

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:9986
Characters:
Steve Parker
Synopsis:
Steve Parker is intrigued by the shadow of a man he sees each night on his fire escape. One night he follows the man up and finds himself transported to another planet.
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Page 2 follows the next story.

[no title indexed]

statement of ownership / 0.25 page

Script:
Monroe Froehlich Jr. (credited) (business manager)
Letters:
typeset

From Out of the… Grave!

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:D-849
Characters:
Fletcher Grimm
Synopsis:
In old England, a hunch backed grave robber named Grimm makes his living digging up corpses and selling them to doctors to experiment on illegally. When the doctors are finished they have Grimm dispose of the bodies. Instead of putting them back in their graves Grimm simply tosses them in the river. One night however, the offended dead rise from their watery graves to get revenge against him, frightening him to death. When a new grave robber begins working for the doctors, his first dig is ironically Grimm himself.
Reprints (2)

The Man Who Walked the Plank

comic story / 5 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:D-742
Synopsis:
After a pirate captain's ship is sunk, he finds himself surrounded by sharks, floating on the plank he has forced many to walk off of. His undead victims from Davey Jone's locker jostle the plank, forcing him to walk it, until he tires and falls prey to the sharks.
Reprints (1)

The Faceless Ones

comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:D-870
Synopsis:
The first space flight from Earth finds the astronauts landing in Hell.
Reprints (3)

The Horrible House!

comic story / 4 pages


  • Genre:horror-suspense
  • Job Number:D-880
Characters:
Mr. Belding
Synopsis:
A wealthy man dreams of an atom bomb wrecking his house and burying him alive, so he goes into the country where he thinks he is safe and has a house built. The construction men warn him that the ground is soft, but he disregards their warning, and the entire house sinks beneath the earth with him inside.
Reprints (3)
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