Dates
- Cover date
- June 1952
- On sale
- March 24, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Ugliest Man in the World! · 8 pages
A horribly disfigured man is constantly made fun of by his brother due to his appearance. One day he finds a strange shop that sells masks. He purchases a handsome face mask and begins to wear it. He notices his life getting better and even meets a beautiful woman. Angry at his happiness and success, his brother tears off his mask and he notices his face has changed permanently into the handsome mask. The brother then sees his own reflection and notices now he is horribly disfigured.
- Demons Below Us! · 7 pages
Miners uncover a strange door that leads into an underground realm. The foreman encounters a beautiful woman who kisses him and says he now must live with her below so he can live forever. He refuses and escapes using dynamite to seal the entrance. However on the surface his body begins to shrivel up due to intense dehydration and he needs to return to the underground realm to survive, but realizes that can't happen anymore.
- Willie · 7 pages
Willie is the dumb but extremely powerful older brother of a gangster named Steve. Steve wants to usurp the mob boss so he can take over the rackets. Sensing this, the boss leaves town and calls for Willie to come to him. This will leave Steve helpless so that the boss' bodyguard can kill him. However, he doesn't realize that Steve had sent Willie to kill him as well!
- The 24th Guest · 2 pages
A reporter is trying to find out why prominent people around town are disappearing. He then realizes they are being taken to Mars to preserve humanity in case of an atomic war.
- Exile to Death! · 6 pages
A futuristic story where humanity lives in perfection due to their machines. A scientist warns that they still need to develop science in case something goes wrong. Accused as a criminal for defying them, the council exiles him and his mate into the future with a time machine. In the future, the scientist notices that humanity has been wiped out as the sun is dying and natural resources have been exhausted. Returning home in the time machine they explain what happened to the council and they agree that science must be reinstated to save the Earth in the future.
- Problems of Space Travel · 2 pages
This 1952 feature discusses the problems science needs to solve before man can travel into space.
Reprinted in
The Purple Claw (1953), Purple Claw (1958), Crypt of Horror (2005)