| Issue | #17 |
| Published | March 1953 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Statement of ownership: Current Detective Stories; Editor: Stan Lee; Managing editor: Martin Goodman; Business manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.; Owners: Current Detective Stories, Martin Goodman, Jerome A. Perles, Morris Siegel; Notary public: Tess Harwood, signed 8 September 1952 |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Sam Kweskin; Carl Burgos [panels] |
| Inks | Sam Kweskin; Carl Burgos [panels] |
| Synopsis | A convicted killer has a repeating dream of dying in the electric chair. Finally, the event is real and he is relieved the dreams have stopped in the peace of death...until he hears the warden summon his ghost from its grave and back through the green door. He realizes that he is damned to an eternity of executions. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Gil Kane |
| Inks | Gil Kane (?) |
| Reprinted | in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 |
| Characters | Howard Stevens |
| Synopsis | A lawyer's hotel window looks out on an alien landscape, allowing him to discover the Martian plan to conquer Earth. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #62 (April 1958) |
| Synopsis | When four vandals enter a museum at night to cut off the gold heads from a hydra idol, they end with their heads placed upon the evil idol. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Joe Sinnott |
| Inks | Joe Sinnott |
| Synopsis | When his smoker boss doesn't lend him the money he needs for his wife's operation and she dies, a man ties the smoker up in a shed filled with explosives. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Ken Landau |
| Inks | Ken Landau |
| Synopsis | This story postulates that dead people remain aware and sensate during their autopsies. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Sam Kweskin |
| Inks | Sam Kweskin |
| Synopsis | Lobsters get their revenge on a diver who likes to boil them alive in order to observe their suffering by herding him into a hot-spring. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Jim Mooney |
| Inks | Jim Mooney |
| Reprinted | in Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #5 |