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Issue Details

Issue #31
Published May 1954
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Suitcase!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Carl Burgos (?)
Inks Carl Burgos (?)

5 page story "Slave Ship"

Synopsis A captain of a salvage ship takes advantage of storm-wrecked vessels until the tables are turned upon him.
Genre Horror
Pencils Bill Benulis
Inks Bill Benulis
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

2 page text story "Gaflin's Ghost"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
Reprinted from Spellbound (Marvel 1952 series) #5 (July 1952) [originally titled "The Ghost Goes Free!"]

4 page story "Dear Valentine!"

Genre Horror
Pencils Al Hartley
Inks Al Hartley
Notes A half-hearted swipe of EC's "Poetic Justice" Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "It Happened in the Morgue"

Synopsis A city coroner taking kick-backs from the mob in order to bury the bodies of murder victims quickly with false natural death certificates gets the same treatment from the new coroner.
Genre Horror
Script Paul S. Newman
Pencils Ed Winiarski
Inks Ed Winiarski
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. More information supplied by Flat File by the Atlas group.

4 page story "The Suitcase!"

Synopsis A thief steals a suitcase containing shrunken heads and a formula for shrinking a head while the body still lives. The thief comes under a compulsion to ingest the formula and decapitate himself to add his head to the collection.
Genre Horror
Pencils John Rosenberger
Inks John Rosenberger
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

5 page story "Crazy, Man!"

Synopsis A man who witnesses alien invaders possessing the bodies of important people to plan a takeover is placed in a mental institution and eventually released. When he comes across the same aliens, his first thought is to warn the authorities, but then he realizes that he'll be placed back in the institution so he keeps his mouth shut.
Genre Horror
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Information on this sequence from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.