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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published November 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Index revised with information from atlastales.com.

Cover Details - "Shrinko"

Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely

5 page story "Shrinko!"

Synopsis Two conmen sell bottles of Shrinko to everyone in New York, and to their great surprise, it actually works on buildings as well as people and now they are the only full size people left.
Pencils Art Peddy
Inks Art Peddy

5 page story "The Burning Truth"

Synopsis A man encounters a race of fire people living inside a volcano.
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks George Roussos

4 page story "Violence!"

Synopsis A hunter's African steamer is wrecked by a sudden storm and he can't swim. He floats on a crate of Mambas until he sees part of the steamer is still afloat with a figure atop it. He makes for it, since the crate with the deadly snakes is breaking apart, and asks the figure to pull him up. He is roughly seized and stares into the face of the gorilla he was in the habit of regularly tormenting with his whip.
Pencils Sol Brodsky ?
Inks Jack Abel

4 page story "Fit for a Corpse"

Synopsis A criminal on the run ducks into a shroud maker's shop and, thinking him a tailor, asks for a fitting. He is shot dead by a police officer making his last stop an appropriate choice.
Pencils Carl Hubbel
Inks Carl Hubbel

5 page story "The Madman!"

Synopsis A man devises a new form of government where scientists rule, and when he goes into the future by a time machine developed from work of fellow scientists, he finds that he has become a tyrant.
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski