Dates
- Cover date
- June 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Swamp Monster · 6 pages
An escaped convict is bitten by a vampiric being in the swamp and turns into a demonic beast man. When he attacks the sheriff and his deputy by leaping from a tree, he accidently hangs himself on a vine and his corpse reverts back into it's human form.
- Mind Over Matter · 4 pages
A scientist creates a solution that can dissolve anything. The problem is, he made it so powerful that it dissolves his lab and begins dissolving a huge crater into the Earth with no end in sight.
- Mad Money · 3 pages
A woman convinces her niece that she's insane so she will be taken away and she can inherit the money willed to her. After the neice goes insane, she murders her aunt.
- Still Life · 6 pages
After a painter goes blind he finds he can paint the souls of dead beings such as and a cat and a dog that he kills. When he kills the wife of his agent to paint her soul, he breaks down and confesses and is sent to an asylum.
- The Old Bat · 5 pages
A deadbeat who owes the mob money gets the idea to scare his rich aunt to death to get at her fortune. Knowing her fear of bats, he creates a fake bat to scare her to death. After she dies, she is reborn as a bat and kills him.
Reprinted in
Weird (1966), Shock (1969), Haunted Tales (1973), Doc Stearn...Mr. Monster (1985), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), Crypt of Horror (2005), Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (2010), The Life and Comics of Basil Wolverton (2014), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Swamp Monsters (2019), PS Artbooks Softee: Weird Tales of the Future (2020)