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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published April 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Garden of Death!"

Pencils Harry Anderson
Inks Harry Anderson

6 page story "The Poor Old Man"

Synopsis An old man unintentionally summons a demon and the demon grants the man a boon. At first, he doesn't want to wish for anything because he knows that the demon will ask for his life or soul, but the demon promises not to. The man wishes for the love of a beautiful woman. He becomes chums with a Hollywood director and makes movie improvement suggestions. He becomes well off and attracts the attention of a beautiful actress. Despite his advanced years, she falls in love with him and accepts his marriage proposal. With the wedding impending, the demon appears once more before the man. The demon demands payment, but the man says that the demon agreed not to take his life or soul. The demon demands his wealth or the life of his fiance, and if he sacrifices his wealth, no one will remember him and he will return to being an unimportant old man. The man chooses to spare his fiance and he reverts back to the way he was before the demon first appeared.
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte

4 page story "The Cask In the Cave"

Pencils Joe Sinnott
Inks Joe Sinnott
Notes A similar story to EC's "Midnight Mess"

2 page text story "The Clocks"

Letters typeset

5 page story "Progress"

Synopsis When a hermit refuses to vacate his property and plants mines to halt state bulldozers, they construct the highway with a tunnel going beneath his property. This causes his house to collapse and when he investigates, he's struck and killed by a car.
Pencils Harry Anderson
Inks Harry Anderson

3 page story "Garden of Death"

Synopsis Death views the Earth as a garden and finds the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb a beautiful addition to his garden.
Pencils Vernon Henkel
Inks Vernon Henkel

5 page story "Suffocation"

Synopsis A woman develops claustrophobia after she and her husband smother her aunt in a closet for her money.
Pencils Tony DiPreta
Inks Tony DiPreta