Dates
- Cover date
- December 1951
- On sale
- August 8, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Evil Eye · 6 pages
Chambers summons a massive eye which kills anyone it looks at. He uses the eye to spread chaos but the eye resents him for summoning him to Earth and finally kills Chambers.
- Dial...City Morgue! · 6 pages
Ted calls Jeff on his new phone, but for some reason reaches city morgue instead of Jeff. The call works on the next attempt, but when he goes to see Jeff, Jeff is hit by a car and killed. Ted realizes his phone can predict deaths, but when he calls Ellie and reaches city morgue he tries to alter destiny by saving her. Running to a carnival ground where Ellie is, Ted is killed when lightning strikes a merry-go-round, sending debris which strikes him down.
- Sculpture of Death · 2 pages
- It! · 4 pages
Bill and Jenny adopt a baby but it soon runs Jenny ragged. Bill finds his coffee poisoned and they both nearly die in a mysterious fire, yet the baby somehow got out of the house before the blaze erupted. After Jenny tripped on the baby's teddy and fell to her death, Bill suspected the baby was responsible. Taking Bill's gun, the baby confronts Bill and reveals its true nature: it's an alien in disguise, killing from safety thanks to its innocent appearance. The baby kills Bill and is later adopted by another couple.
- The Man on the Beach! · 7 pages
Robert is brought to the year 7000 to help save humanity from the Greenies. Zord shrinks the Earth to microscopic size and entrusts everything to Robert. Robert returns to his own time and accidentally drops the shrunken Earth on the beach. Reality begins to dissolve.
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (2007), Art of John Romita (1996), Marvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr. (2005), Marvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr. (2019), Atlas Creator Collection (2026)