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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published January 1953
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

6 page story "Horrible Herman"

Pencils Joe Maneely
Inks Joe Maneely
Notes The same story as the second story in Tales to Astonish #29

5 page story "The Grinning Skulls"

Synopsis When a man attempts to steal skulls from a totem pole, his head becomes the latest addition to the top of the pole.
Pencils Werner Roth
Inks Werner Roth

2 page text story "You Only Die Once"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #20 (December 1954) [as "The Man in Black!"];in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 (2009)

3 page story "The Experiment"

Synopsis A scientist creates a process that he thinks will evolve a gorilla into a human being but it turns out to transpose their minds into each other's bodies.
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska

5 page story "The Golden Coffin"

Synopsis A man summons the ghost of King Midas and demands his power to turn objects to gold. He thinks that he will be more clever than Midas and just get the power in his right hand so that he can eat with his left, but he gets in a vehicle accident and they amputate his left hand.
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Carmine Infantino

4 page story "The Man Who Talked To Ghosts"

Synopsis When a woman murders her husband for his money he returns as a ghost.
Pencils Jim Mooney