Dates
- Cover date
- August 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Man Who Was Death! · 6 pages
Aliens from Jupiter disguise themselves as humans and infiltrate society planting bombs in humans and causing them to explode with a force greater than an atomic bomb to help them conquer Earth. This story focuses on one such victim; a doctor named Jim Banks.
- Find Me! Find Me! Find Me! · 3 pages
An artist draws an infinity art ad for his employer but gets trapped inside of it.
- Black Vengeance · 2 pages
A cowardly hunter kills a magnificent blank panther but it gets its revenge years later when it's mounted head in the hunter's trophy room comes to life and kills him.
- The Clock Strikes! · 4 pages
A man who finds out he's terminally ill, pays a seedy murderer to kill him at "no later than two o'clock tomorrow" so he can die quickly (the man being too scared to commit suicide). Afterwards, he finds out he's not terminally ill and will live if he keeps his stress level down. Terrified of being killed by the murderer he hired, his intense fear cause him to die of a heart attack!
- The Hitchhiker · 4 pages
A driver picks up a hitchhiker one stormy night and hears on the radio that there is an escaped mental patient on the loose. Thinking the hitchhiker is the mental patient, he ends up killing him. When the police arrive on the scene it turns out the driver was the escaped mental patient!
- The Hand · 6 pages
A man who accidentally let his friend fall to his death during a mountain climbing trip, is tormented by his severed disembodied hand.
Reprinted in
Atlas Comics Library (2023), Marvel and Fantagraphics Present Stories from the Atlas Comics Library: FCBD 2024 (2024)