Dates
- Cover date
- April 1953
- On sale
- January 24, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Death of a Puppet · 5 pages
A puppeteer's menagerie consists of shrunken humans.
- Death Draws a Circle · 1.66 pages
- Ghost Guard · 5 pages
A hermit reveals himself to be a ghost guarding pirate treasure.
- Paid In Full · 4 pages
A collection agent bullies one of his victims so much that the man murders and robs the collection agent unknowingly in the darkened streets so he has the money to pay off his debt.
- High As a Kite · 4 pages
The town drunk who wishes to be as high as a kite meets the Devil in a bar, who grants his wish.
- It's Murder, He Says! · 5 pages
The police take down the story of a man who claims to know about the details of a murder that took place between two brothers. The sergeant assumes that the story teller is the murderer whose conscience drove him to confess and has him arrested, but it turns out the events have been narrated to the police by the corpse of the murder victim.
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey into Mystery (2008)