Dates
- Cover date
- July-August 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Worm Turns · 6 pages
Biologist Norman Thoma breeds an invulnerable super-worm and turns it loose on mankind. Humanity seems to be doomed.
- Day of Reckoning! · 6 pages
Three sailors kill the shipbuilder Jezab Grimm and board him up on his ship, the Mermaid. The Mermaid travels the seas for years and hunts down all of the murderers.
- Comeback! · 5 pages
Drama at the carnival: Flexo the rubber man kills snake lady Satana for her money. Returning to the scene of the crime some time later, Flexo is confronted by a vengeful Satana.
- Tunnel To Terror · 2 pages
While excavation work for an underground garage goes on, an undead witch rises from the ground and kills five workmen.
- If Looks Could Kill! · 6 pages
Surgeon Gustave Savage is kidnapped by the hypnotist Merlin. In an ensuing fight, Merlin blinds the doctor, but is killed. Savage transplants the dead man's eyes for his own and can see again. With fatal consequences, because his looks literally kill.
- Family Mixup · 5 pages
The Becks, skinny husband and fat wife, hate each other and plot their spouse's demise. They succeed.
Characters
Reprinted in
Gwandanaland Comics (2016), Steve Ditko's The Thing! (2006), The Steve Ditko Archives (2009), The Steve Ditko Archives (2014), Doomsday (1972), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius (2008)