Dates
- Cover date
- November 1953
- On sale
- July 31, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Creature of Doom · 9 pages
Nuclear scientist Paul Allen is left to die on the site of an atom bomb test. His treacherous colleague Serb works for “the reds” and plans on leaving the country with Allen’s wife Gena. Allen watches helplessly in spectral form. Then he musters his last strength, returns to his broken body and attacks his killers as a nuclear zombie.
- Flaming Vengeance · 6 pages
Greedy landlord Cal Arnum burns down his own tenement block to cash in on the insurance. The loss of dozens of lives means nothing to him. Arnum then takes a drug to fake his own death. Instead of being brought to the family tomb, Arnum is cremated.
- Death Prowls the Streets · 7 pages
Famous, but retired investigator Emmett Dru takes on one last case. A homicidal maniac is spreading terror throughout the city. Dru finds the killer’s hide-out and confronts him.
- Cast Back the Dead · 1 pages
- Valley of Horror · 6 pages
A couple take a shortcut through 'Perdition Valley' after seeing it on a road map found near a car crash site. The car accident victim was a known racketeer. Little do the couple realize that Perdition Valley is a town for the damned dead.
Reprinted in
The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010), Terror Tales (1969), Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (2010), Haunted Horror (2012)