Dates
- Cover date
- April 1954
- On sale
- January 15, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Poor Old Man · 6 pages
A Demon offers a simple man sweeping up in a bar a wish. Knowing that the usual price for this type of offer is his soul or life, he starts to turn the Demon down. But the Demon assured him that neither of those things would be the price. So he agrees and asks for the love of a beautiful woman. When he brings this woman back to the bar, the Demon showed up and demanded his price...the life of the woman or he can go back to his simple life. He chooses to go back and the woman is left wondering why the simple man sweeping up in the bar has a strange smile while working.
- The Cask in the Cave · 4 pages
- The Clocks · 1.67 pages
- Progress! · 5 pages
When a hermit refuses to vacate his property and plants mines to halt state bulldozers, they construct the highway with a tunnel going beneath his property. This causes his house to collapse and when he investigates, he's struck and killed by a car.
- The Garden of Death! · 3 pages
Death views the Earth as a garden and finds the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb a beautiful addition to his garden.
- Suffocation · 5 pages
A woman develops claustrophobia after she and her husband smother her aunt in a closet for her money.
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (2007)