| Issue | #9 |
| Published | April 1952 |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Russ Heath |
| Inks | Russ Heath |
| Synopsis | A man keeps mastiffs half-starved in the dungeon so that he can press a button to release them in the event thieves enter his house. His nephew drugs him and wheels his wheelchair into their enclosure so that he will get his money when the dogs finish him. The man's ghost comes back and does the same thing to the nephew. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Hank Chapman |
| Pencils | Ogden Whitney |
| Inks | Ogden Whitney |
| Synopsis | A landlady rents an apartment to straw men. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Bernard Krigstein |
| Inks | Bernard Krigstein |
| Genre | horror |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | story has 2 spot illustrations |
| Reprinted | in Astonishing (Marvel, 1951 series) #26 (August 1953) [as "Bloom of Death"] |
| Synopsis | A body snatcher is thwarted in his efforts by cemetery rats that chew through coffins in order to pull the bodies into their warrens. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Greg Gatlin notes: Signed R.A. The first story for Atlas by Dick Ayers, pencils, inks and lettering. Delivered to Stan Lee on 10/12/51. |
| Synopsis | An executioner is frightened to death when someone places a mirror in the bottom of his head basket so that he sees his own head in there. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Manny Stallman |
| Inks | Manny Stallman (?) |
| Synopsis | When a medium is exposed as a fake, she shoots her client, but it turns out that she had more ability than she thought she did. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |