Dates
- Cover date
- March 1953
- On sale
- December 30, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- With Intent to Kill! · 7 pages
Lucas goes to work for Creeze, intending to learn where the old man's money is hidden and then kill him. He finally ties Creeze up and leaves him outside the house while he searches it but accidentally starts a fire while examining the fireplace and burns to death inside. The money was in Creeze's wheelchair all along.
- Two Hands! · 3 pages
Mike is selling a statue with no hands. Barker offers him $10,000 for a version with hands. Unable to obtain a copy, Mike sacrifices his own hands to the statue.
- He Walks with a Ghost · 4 pages
After dying while helping the abusive Joe, Al's ghost arranges Joe's death. However, Joe becomes a ghost and resumes slapping Al around.
- You've Got to Kill Me! · 5 pages
Blake tells Hurley he's going to die. Hurley hires Barton to murder him but then Blake explains he mixed-up his records and Hurley will live. Hurley tries to keep Barton from killing him but fails. Then Barton learns he's the one whose records Blake had been looking at.
- The Poor Fish! · 5 pages
Ronald loves to take fish out of the water and watch them die. He's then captured by Martians who want to bring a human home with them, but he dies out of Earth's atmosphere. The Martians treat him as casually as he did the fish.
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Atlas Artist Edition (2024)