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Issue Details

Issue #44 [2]
Published February 1951
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Won’t You Step Into My Parlor…?/The Strangers!/No Escape!/The Creeping Vine!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Carl Burgos? (main image and panels)
Inks Carl Burgos? (main image and panels)

5 page story "The Stranger"

Synopsis A scientist invents a formula for eternal life, but it doesn't work and produces monsters instead.
Genre Horror
Script Hank Chapman
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski

4 page story "The Creeping Vine"

Genre Horror
Pencils Allen Bellman
Inks Allen Bellman (?)
Notes A story motif similar to "Little Shop of Horrors"

6 page story "No Escape"

Synopsis A poor man who shares identical looks with a rich man murders his butler and acquires his job after donning a disguise in order to study the mannerisms of the wealthy man. After completing his study, he murders the wealthy man and takes his place. He finds out that the man had a history of mental imbalance after his cousin and lawyer commit him to an insane asylum.
Genre Horror
Script Hank Chapman
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath

2 page text story "Out Of The Past"

Genre horror
Letters typeset
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #93 (August 1949)

7 page story "The Storm"

Synopsis People can only leave the house of terrors upon the hill when new victims seek shelter from the storm in order to replace them.
Genre Horror

1 page public service announcement "The Classroom Secret"

Genre horror
Pencils Jerry Fasano
Inks Jerry Fasano (?)